and Jewish Life
8 July 2019, Novogrudok
A Day with the Bielskis – Day 1
A Human Rights project for Upstanders, funded by the United States Government, starting in Australia in August.
Source: wah.foundation
9 July 2019, Naliboki Forest
A Day with the Bielskis
9:00 – All the guests are brought to the village of Naliboki by minivans.
11.00 – meeting Alexander Pilinkievich, the chairman of the village council of Naliboki, who takes care of the Bielski camp.
Alexander, the chairman of the village council of Naliboki, makes a presentation to the Israeli Ambassador to Belarus.
Source: youtu.be/2GrL4Ju4H7A
A memorial stone to the Jews of Naliboki.
12.00– 18.00 – at the Bielski camp site in the Naliboki Forest
by Sevil Uluchan-Weinstein (Bielski) of Turkey
Source: youtu.be/i5J81aj7_f0
by Sevil Uluchan-Weinstein (Bielski) of Turkey
Source: youtu.be/v9E4pJ7FdsM
Source: youtu.be/jzl4hlGLKYE
Guidelines to the participants on how to be part of the story telling and discussion by Shachar Rubin of Israel.
Source: youtu.be/QtL0KDtdKtc
Guests tell stories about the partisan life as told by their parents.
Introduced by Eli Rabinowitz. Sung in Hebrew
Source: youtu.be/3_b4V9Us_Z8
My visit to the Naliboki Forest in Belarus on 16 May 2018, with Tamara, Alexander and Ivan. This is where the Bielskis and many other partisans had their camps in the latter part of WWII. Aptly nam…
Source: elirab.me/forest-jerusalem/
Source: kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/naliboki/Home.html
A Human Rights project for Upstanders, funded by the US Government.
Source: wah.foundation
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WE ARE HERE! An Education Program That Inspires Upstanders
In May 2017 I first invited schools to participate in a new project for Yom Hashoah.
So it is with great pleasure I share with you a couple of videos made this week by the students of Bialik Hebrew Day School in Toronto, Canada
Bialik Hebrew Day School, Himel Branch, Toronto Canada 2 May 2019 Yom Hashoah Commemoration assembly. Singing in Yiddish followed by Hebrew.
Source: youtu.be/1I94o3z39Xc
Bialik Hebrew Day School, Toronto Canada, 2 May 2019 Yom Hashoah Commemoration assembly.
Source: youtu.be/tQSt3CkD5Js
Thanks to:
Assaf Mordachay, Beverley Young and Kathy Friedman
The Jewish Day School for Today’s Generation.
Source: bialik.ca
The Partisans’ Song, Zog Nit Zeynmol, has now been translated into 27 languages, the latest being Mongolian:
YIDDISH, HEBREW, ENGLISH, POLISH, BELARUSIAN, RUSSIAN, GERMAN, SPANISH, CZECH, DUTCH, ITALIAN, ROMANIAN, FRENCH, SWEDISH, PORTUGUESE, NORWEGIAN, JAPANESE, FINNISH, SWISS GERMAN, SLOVAK, GREEK, AFRIKAANS, UKRAINIAN, SERBIAN, NOONGAR , ARABIC, XHOSA, ZULU and MONGOLIAN.
In this way we can all share the song’s powerful and positive message and, at the same time, embrace the legacy of the partisans, of those who were incarcerated in the ghettos and the camps and of the Holocaust survivors. See translations below.
A Project For Your School Recite or sing the Partisans’ Song in your home tongue, or in a language you have learnt. Make a video, which can be as creative as you wish or just a simple recording. For the poem, each verse is made up of four lines. For the song, the last two lines in each verse are repeated.
I am pleased to advise that today, on Yom Hashoah 2019, we have added a Mongolian translation of the Partisans’ Song, Zog Nit Keynmol.
Thanks to Michael Anderson and his daughter Saskia for arranging this translation by Mongolian academic, Zandan Bilegt.
We now have the song in the original Yiddish, and 27 language translations on our website. Schools around the world, including World ORT schools, learn and sing the song.
A Project For Your School to recite or sing the Partisans’ Song in your home tongue, or in a language you have learnt. Make a video, which can be as creative as you wish or just a simple recording. For the poem, each verse is made up of four lines. For the song, the last two lines in each verse are repeated.
The background and context The ‘Partisans’ Song’ – Zog Nit Kein Mol–written by Hirsch Glik, 22, in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943 is one of the most powerful songs of resistance and defiance ever written. While Hitler boasted that his Reich would endure for a thousand years, it is the Jewish people who resisted the forces of hatred and have endured, not the murderous Third Reich, which lasted twelve years. Today, 75 years on, long after the demise of Hitler’s murderous regime, the partisans’ song is now sung worldwide to mark the Jewish spirit of resistance. (Michael Cohen, Melbourne)
Source: elirab.me/znk
PARTISAN SONG – MONGOLIAN TRANSLATION BY ZANDAN BILEGT
Бүрхэг тэнгэр зовлонт ирээдүйг зөгнөх мэт санагдавч
Бүхний төгсгөлд ирлээ гэж хэзээ ч бүү хэл.
Хүсэн хүлээсэн цаг чинь ирнэ,
Бид ирлээ хэмээн цэрэг бидний алхаа аянга мэт нүргэнэ.
Наргил модны нутгаас цаст уулсын нутагт
Гуниг ганихралаа тээн бид чинь ирлээ.
Бидний цус урссан газар бүр
Эрэлхэг дайчин сүнс маань орших болно.
Мандах нарны алтан туяа нулимсыг маань эгшээж,
Өнгөрсөн жилүүдийн гашуун дурсамжийг мартагнуулна.
Нар мандах цаг мөдгүй бол
Энэ дуу минь сайныг зөгнөн эгшиглэг.
Энэ дуу тугалгаар бус цусаар маань бичигдсэн,
Энэ дуу шувуудын жиргэдэг дуу биш,
Энэ дууг бүрээн дуунаар буу агсан,
Нурж буй багануудын дунд дуулж байсан юм.
Тиймээс хэдий бүрхэг тэнгэр зовлонт ирээдүйг зөгнөвч
Бүхний төгсгөл ирлээ гэж хэзээ ч бүү хэл.
Бидний хүсэн хүлээсэн цаг ойртсон,
Цэрэг бидний алхаан дор газар доргих болно. Бид ирлээ!
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1 May 2019
Carmel School Choir Sings Zog Nit Keynmol – Video
Yom Hashoah, Perth Australia
1 May 2019
Source: youtu.be/883P_npMqmw
A short exerpt from Melbourne’s video – thanks to Herb Epstein
Cape Town
http://www.gitlinlibrary.co.za/ActiveConnect/default.html
From Tachlis, Michele Gogoski & Elona Steinfeld, Beyachad, Johannesburg:
Eli, who is the founder of the We Are Here Foundation, gave an inspirational presentation about the importance of educating Jewish youth about the Holocaust and the Jewish partisans during the World War II. The talk was accompanied by video footage of the youth of various communities across the globe, who have been taught and are being taught to sing the famous Partisans Song – Zog Nit Keyn Mol (Shir HaPartizanim).
His message is loud and clear: WE MUST NEVER FORGET!
For more information please visit the website
WE ARE HERE! An Education Program That Inspires Upstanders
From Stan Smookler on the Good Shabbas Newsletter
I attended a Lecture by Eli Rabinowitz @ Beyachad last week, and it was a VERY interesting discussion, the Subject being “ Zog Nit Keynmol’ ( Never say never again), the Partisan’s song…. see https://wah.foundation/ …. I never realized that such a project would have soooo many opinions and ‘Machlokes’ …. The project is to revive the Partisan song that was written by Hirsch Glik in the concentration camps…… The project involves getting schools to start learning the song and of course understanding the meaning…. Eli has teamed up with various Schools, especially in Russia, Poland, Souff Effrikka etc, and World Ort have given him huge assistance, with ORT schools around the World joining in the programme….. The question is ; Should the Song be sung/learnt in any other language than Yiddish, as this is what it was started as…???? Methinks, yes, as it will get lost if not promoted.
At the meeting were a few knowledgeable people in Yiddisher circles, and Saul Issroff ( Absoluuuuut BOFF on Lithuania) from London (Ex PE ‘Amolikke Yoren’), Eli Goldstein who is very involved in the teaching of Yiddish in Joburg, Ishvara Dhyan, who takes walking tours of Joburg, and covers many of the old Yiddisher places, Rabbi Moshe Silberhaft (The Travelling Rabbi) ,Darryl Frankel (King David) Marc Latilla who runs a website Johannesburg 1912, which has a lot of info on many suburbs (in detail) and Joburg City … , https://johannesburg1912.wordpress.com/ where you can find in depth info on Joburg/suburbs….. Tali Nates from the Holocaust Museum also came, and Eli did a show with Howard Feldman on Chai FM 91.7 .. Pictures; http://www.stantgsm.com/category/pictures/4
ChaiFM – my interview by Howard Feldman
ChaiFM
With some of the educators who attended my presentation.
Also caught up with:
Busy times ahead!
My topic is:
Projects That Draw Youth to Ancestral Roots.
The IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy is being held in Cleveland for the first time. It features a special day designed specifically for Jewish educators!
Educators who:
Sunday, July 28th is the date. The program begins with breakfast and a keynote by noted Jewish educator and genealogist Carol Oseran Starin, former Vice-President of the Jewish Federation of Seattle. Participants may select from two workshop time periods, each with a choice from three nationally known presenters, followed by lunch and idea exchanges.
To introduce educators to how Jewish genealogy strengthens students’ Jewish identity through the experience of researching their roots and how their history shaped family and community.
| 8:30–9:00 | Registration and light breakfast |
| 9:00–10:00 | Keynote speaker: What is Jewish about Jewish Genealogy, Carol Starin |
| 10:15–11:15 | Three workshop sessions
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| 11:30–12:30 | Three workshop sessions
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| 12:30–1:15 | Lunch and “tachlis” how to implement ideas |
| 1:15–2:45 | Participation in SHARE Fair and Exhibits |
| 2:45–4:00 | Education track participants are invited to the conference keynote address |
| Title of the Presentation | Projects That Will Draw Our Youth Back To Their Shtetl |
| Short Title | Visit the shtetl: the virtual way forward! |
| Type of Session | Presentation |
| Topic or Category | Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics Telling Your Family Story Using Technology for Research |
| Brief Abstract of Your Presentation | Since 2011, and after nine trips to Poland and Lithuania, as well as travel to Belarus, Germany, Russia, Latvia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Turkey and Israel, I have compiled a sizeable collection of information, stories, photos and contacts. My focus is not only about my own family history, but that of Jewish cultural history, general history, as well as contemporary Jewish life. Working with schools in these countries, I have been able to bring students together online to collaborate and to exchange information about the lands of their heritage. My presentation takes you on a tour of how you can use this body of work to further your own knowledge on family research, Jewish cultural heritage and Jewish life. This includes a tour of my 86 JewishGen KehilaLink websites, including 55 in Europe, plus over 600 posts and pages on my Tangential Travel and Jewish Life website and associated social media. |
| Presentation is best suited for | All skills |
| How will your presentation help your intended audience? | Expand research skills Develop interview skills Teach best practices Expand social media skills Teach innovative strategies Assist with personal research |
| Title of the Presentation | WE ARE HERE! Project: Becoming An Upstander Rather Than A Bystander |
| Short Title | How Jewish Partisans Inspire Our Youth To Stand Up |
| Type of Session | Presentation |
| Topic or Category | Genealogy and Jewish History Related to WW2 Jewish History and Culture Methodology and Mechanics Preserving our Jewish Past |
| Brief Abstract of Your Presentation | WE ARE HERE! Project This project seeks to inspire in young people the confidence and ability to stand up in the face of prejudice and oppression. Encourages and inspires Upstanders through the stories of Jewish Partisans and the learning of Zog Nit Keynmol Provides role models for standing up for yourself in the face of prejudice, hatred, violence and evil Shows that an individual can make a difference – regardless of their personal circumstances Translates the stories of Jewish Partisans and the words of Zog Nit Keynmol into a universal message of hope and inspiration for all who are victims of prejudice and oppression Empowers young people to create the change they want to see in their communities and the world. Teaches that while the partisans used weapons – they were fighting the Nazis – you can fight oppression with only your voice and presence |
| Presentation is best suited for | All skills |
| How will your presentation help your intended audience? | Teach best practices Expand social media skills Teach innovative strategies |
