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Kassel Germany has a Lesson for Us!
By Eli and Jill Rabinowitz
Perth Australia
13 December 2024
Burning The Synagogue
Australians Jill and Eli Rabinowitz visited the site of the Great Synagogue of Kassel Germany in November 2024, where 86 years ago, on 7 November 1938, Kristallnacht, known as Pogromnacht in Germany, began.
Translation of this plaque
The Synagogue
This is where the Great Synagogue of the Kassel Jewish community stood, completed in 1839 and having 2,301 members in May 1933.
Many had already fled when, on 7 November 1938, activists from the Nazi Party broke into the synagogue and broke open the Torah shrine, setting fire to prayer scrolls and cult objects.
The city administration immediately demolished the intact building in order to build a parking lot there. The community was broken up.
The current synagogue was completed in 2000
With Rabbi Shaul Nekrich of Kassel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassel_Synagogue
The Holocaust memorial at the Railway Station
The Rail Track of Remembrance
The information board
More info:
http://www.dasdenkmaldergrauenbusse.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=142&Itemid=2
The Stolpersteine for the Oppenheim family in Kassel
Trude and Hans Oppenheim were deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. Daughter Dorrith escaped on the Kindertransport to Scotland in July 1939.
https://www.stolpersteine.eu/en/home
The Jewish Community Centre in Kassel
The Arolsen Archives
https://arolsen-archives.org/en
Meeting Julia and Beate in Hofgeismar
The German language book – In Meiner Tasche
In My Pocket Project educates Australian school children of all backgrounds
Jill and Eli Rabinowitz with Tanja Colgan, German teacher Goethe Institute
The Project is a two-hour workshop of a book reading with a creative art activity for upper primary classrooms (Years 5 and 6). The story links with HASS units on civics, migration and refugees. Intercurricular learning opportunities promote values of empathy, kindness and inclusivity in the multicultural classroom.
This project is a stepping stone to the study of the Holocaust, refugees and anti semitism in high school. The project is unique at the primary school level.
The WE ARE HERE! Foundation provides the calico pockets, art materials and paints together with a free mini copy of In My Pocket for each student.
In My Pocket is Dorrith Sim’s true account of her escape from danger on the Kindertransport.
The Project is supported by the German Embassy in Canberra and the German Hon Consul in WA.
The German version of the book, In Meiner Tasche, is promoted by the Goethe Institute in Australia.
Zoom/Teams training is available for teachers.
The project was first launched at Jewish Day schools around Australia and South Africa in 2023/4. Since then, it has been successfully extended to state, private, Catholic and Independent schools as well as to public libraries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport
Liverpool Street Station
Hannah Devenney at the Imperial War Museum, London
London IAJGS Conference 2023
30 July – 3 August 2023
Sunday 30 July
The Park Plaza – IAJGS Conference. First In-Person meeting in 4 years!
IAJGS Directors’ Board Meeting
Some veterans
At the end of the first day!
Back to Northwick Park
Monday 31 July – Day 2
With Geraldine Auerbach at Northwick Park Tube Station. On our way to the IAJGS conference
At the conference
Presentations
Our CHOL presentation
The Presentation
On our way home!
Monday 1 August – Day 2
Meryl Frank’s presentation
My second presentation
Resources for the presentation:
Meeting Stephen Smith & Bea Lewkowicz
Perth March 2014:
Today in Perth started off with morning tea at the State Library of Western Australia with my mining experts, historian Lenore Layman, Richard Hartley (who just completed “Westralian Founders of 20th Century Mining,”) and Peta Chappelle, whose PhD thesis on “Merton’s Reward” explored the involvement of Charles Kaufman (Ken’s Baden-born great great uncle) in the Western Australian mining boom in the 1890s. They brought me the kinds of goodies genealogists love & suggested new avenues of research. Thanks to Michelle Urban from the local JGS for arranging this & providing lunch with the effervescent Eli Rabinowitz followed by a tour of Perth.
Tuesday 2 August – Day 3
Crossing Westminster Bridge
Meeting Laura Konviser
Enjoying the London weather!
The 4th and final day – 3 August
The Imperial War Museum, Lambeth
Back to the Park Plaza for the end of the conference
Back to Northwick Park
In My Pocket – Update from England
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New Events for Boys and Girls in Mandurah
Book Here – for boys and girls 9+
https://mandurah.wa.gov.au/explore/whats-on/calendar/libraries/in-my-pocket-workshops
About the Event
Keep the kids entertained these school holidays check out our great range of FREE children’s activities available at our libraries.
There’s lots of awesome free activities at your local library.
Designed by the WE ARE HERE! Foundation and supported by the German Embassy in Australia, join a creative and interactive workshop that inspires children to be advocates for human rights.
Participants get to read and watch an uplifting true story and learn about our multicultural communities and diverse backgrounds. This is followed by a creative arts & crafts workshop.
The Foundation aims to teach children about Human Rights, and this inspiring program provides children with the tools for building strengths to deal with our diverse world.
These workshops are aimed at 9 – 11-year-olds.
Mandurah Library
- 1pm – 2.30pm, Friday 7 July 2023
BOOK NOW
Lakelands Library
- 1pm – 2.30pm, Tuesday 11 July 2023
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Falcon Library
- 1pm – 2.30pm, Thursday 13 July 2023
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Please note bookings are essential. Please wait for confirmation of your booking before attending the workshop.
See the School Holiday Guide for full details.
We hope you and your kids have a great school holiday!
Event Locations ( 3 )
New Events in Morley and Dianella
Morley Library – City of Bayswater – 12 July 2023
Dianella Library – City of Stirling – 13 July 2023
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/in-my-pocket-workshop-ages-9-11-tickets-633783532607
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Partisans’ Song to be sung in Yiddish & Maori in NZ Parliament
Wellington, New Zealand
In a world first, the Partisans’ Song will be sung in Yiddish and te reo Māori tomorrow, Thursday, 27 January in the NZ Parliament for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It will be sung by a student of the NZ School of Music, Victoria University, Wellington, accompanied by a pianist.
View the Live Stream from 3.15 PM NZ time at
1:15pm Sydney & Melbourne; 12:45pm Adelaide; 12:15pm Brisbane; 10:15am Perth.
For other times check:
The translation into Maori is by Hēmi Kelly of AUT University.
The Partisans’ Song initiative is led by the WE ARE HERE! Foundation of Perth Australia.
Commemorations
United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Thursday 27 January 2022
The Holocaust was a turning point in history which prompted the world to say, “never again”. In 2005, the UN designated January 27th – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945 – as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an annual call to pay tribute to the victims of the Holocaust and to work through education, documentation, and commemoration to prevent future acts of genocide.
This day we reaffirm our commitment to making “never again” mean just that. We gather in honour and remembrance of the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, and all victims of the Nazi regime and its collaborators, persecuted for their ethnicity, political views, disabilities, religious beliefs, or sexual orientation. Today, and all days, we stand against antisemitism, discrimination, and apathy.
This year, our nationwide theme of resistance reminds us of the impact the act of even a single individual can have. We remember all forms of resistance – armed and unarmed, Jewish, and non-Jewish – against the Third Reich.
In keeping with the NZ government’s traffic light framework, all Holocaust Centre of New Zealand commemorative events on UN International Holocaust Remembrance Day require My Vaccine Pass for entry.
This applies to indoor and outdoor events in all cities.
Thank you for your cooperation.
This applies to indoor and outdoor events in all cities.
Thank you for your cooperation.
On 30 October 2020 I posted:
We are pleased to advise that WE ARE HERE! Foundation has just had the Partisans’ Song translated into Māori – our 30th language!
Translated by Hēmi Kelly
Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Tahu-Ngāti Whāoa
Lecturer | Te Ara Poutama, Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Development
Researcher | Te Ipukarea, The National Māori Language Institute
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Researcher | Te Ipukarea, The National Māori Language Institute
Auckland University of Technology (AUT)
Kaua rawa e mea ko te mate anahe tō huarahi,
Ahakoa āraia ana te kiko o te rangi e te pōuriuri,
Kei te tata mai te wā kua roa e tāria ana;
Ka rū te whenua i te takahi a ngā wae – ki te haka!
Mai i te whenua o te nīkau, ki te whenua kōkēi o te huka,
E haere nei mātou i runga i te kōharihari me te tiwhatiwha;
Katoa ngā wāhi i pipī ai ō mātou toto ki te papa,
Ka puāwai mai i reira tō mātou māia me tō mātou kaha.
Ka whiti tonu te rā i te ata, ka ao te rangi,
Katoa ngā raru o nanahi ka ngaro me te hoa kakari;
Ā, ki te roa te wā i mua i te aranga mai anō o te rā,
Tukua mā tēnei wai ngā tau e whakaaomārama.
I titongia ai tēnei waiata ki te toto, kaua ki te matā;
Ehara i te waiata e haria ai e ngā manu o ō te raumati rā
Engari nā te iwi i te kauhanga riri a Tū,
Tēnei waiata a mātou i hari ki te pū me te pohū.
Kaua rawa e mea ko te mate anahe tō huarahi,
Ahakoa āraia ana te kiko o te rangi e te pōuriuri,
Kei te tata mai te wā kua roa e tāria ana;
Ka rū te whenua i te takahi a ngā wae – ki te haka!
Learn The Partisans’ Song and Hirsh Glik
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WE ARE HERE! Foundation
Perth Australia
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Eli Rabinowitz
Online Jewish Genealogical Society Talk
Online Jewish genealogy resources to be focus of Jewish Genealogical Society talk on 23 May 2021
Online Jewish genealogy resources to be focus of Jewish Genealogical Society talk on 23 May 2021
Eli Rabinowitz, a board member of the IAJGS who lives in Australia and is from South Africa, will speak on “Journeys from Shtetl to Shtetl” for the Sunday, 23 May 2021, virtual meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois. His live streaming presentation will begin at a special time: 7:30 pm CST.
8:30 pm ES 5:30 pm WST
Monday 24 May 2021: 10:30 am Sydney, 8:30 am Perth, 3:30 am Israel, 2:30 am South Africa, 1:30 am UK
Registration https://jgsi.org/event-3988686
After you register, you will be sent a link to join the meeting. This webinar will be recorded so that JGSI’s paid members who are unable to view it live will be able to view the recording later.
For more information, see https://jgsi.org or phone 312-666-0100.
In his presentation, Rabinowitz will explain how to trace our past and plot our future, using 88 KehilaLinks, over 800 WordPress blog entries, Facebook posts, and other social media. He will also discuss heritage travels in the actual and virtual worlds.
In his talk, Eli will describe special events including commemorations and reunions of descendants. “An important activity is to visit a local school—either physically or online, to engage with students, especially in towns where a few buildings with Jewish symbols, or cemeteries that often contain illegible matsevot, are the only tangible memories of a once thriving community,” he said.
It is also important that family histories should be documented and shared at the same time as the special events, Eli said.
Examples of such recent ceremonies were the Bielski partisans’ descendants’ reunion in Naliboki and Navahrudak, Belarus; the new memorial for victims of the massacre that took place near Birzai, Lithuania; and the groundbreaking ceremony for the Lost Shtetl Museum in Šeduva, Lithuania.
Eli Rabinowitz was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and has lived in Perth, Australia, since 1986. He has researched his family’s genealogy and associated Jewish cultural history for over 30 years. Eli has travelled extensively, writing about Jewish life, travel, and education on his website, Tangential Travel and Jewish Life (http://elirab.me). He writes and manages dozens of JewishGen KehilaLinks and more than 750 WordPress blog posts. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy. Eli has lectured internationally at educational institutions, commemorative events, at IAJGS and other conferences, and online.
He is a board member of the IAJGS—The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, an independent non-profit umbrella organization that coordinates an annual conference of 84 Jewish genealogical societies worldwide.
Eli also advises on Litvak and Polish heritage tours.
He writes and manages 88 KehilaLinks—Jewish websites for JewishGen.org, the world’s largest Jewish genealogical organization, with a database of 500,000 followers. His KehilaLinks include sites in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Germany, Russia, China, Mauritius, Mozambique, South Africa and Australia.
The Jewish Genealogical Societyof Illinois is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping members collect, preserve, and perpetuate the records and history of their ancestors. JGSI is a resource for the worldwide Jewish community to research their Chicago-area roots. The JGSI motto is “Members Helping Members Since 1981.” The group has more than 300 members and is affiliated with the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies.
JGSI members have access to useful and informative online family history research resources, including a members’ forum, more than 65 video recordings of past speakers’ presentations, monthly JGSI E-News, quarterly Morasha JGSI newsletter, and much more. Members as well as non-members can look for their ancestors on the free searchable JGSI Jewish Chicago Database.
New Memorial Orla Poland 2021