and Jewish Life
Travel stories shared by Paul Kahanowitz and Eli Rabinowitz with input from others.
Also featuring Eli’s cousin Ferenc Koszeg from Budapest, Hungary and Tamara Vershitskaya from Navarudak, Belarus
On 16 June 2019, a new memorial for the victims of the massacre that took place near Birzai, Lithuania, was unveiled. Located in the Astravas Grove in the Pakamponys forest four kilometres outside the town, it is the third memorial in Lithuania to bear the names of the victims at the massacre site.
Source: www.sajbd.org/media/the-birzai-birzh-memorial-project-lithuania
Look at the reflection on the memorial stone in his photo taken (by someone else) of Ben Rabinowitz in the above article! Eerie!
My 16 June 2019 post
Sunday 16 June 2019 Birzai, Lithuania Photos of the event The Castle Tree planting Walk to the Holocaust Site The Ceremony Back to the Castle
Source: elirab.me/birzai-commemoration/
Birzai, Lithuania – Website Source: kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/birzai/Home.html
This is “The Lost Names of Lithuania Final TX” by MDK Associates on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Source: vimeo.com/392266976
Atzalynas Gimnazija, Kedainiai Lithuania 13 June 2019 VIDEO OF OUR EVENT IN LITHUANIA They Are Returning ââTILTAI-BRIDGES-×ר×ק×â’ For video, click here: Source: www.youtube.co…
Source: elirab.me/they-are-returning/
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…
Source: elirab.me/bielski-reunion-in-forest-jerusalem-2/
Novogrudok, Belarus – Website
Source: kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/navahrudak/Home.html
Naliboki Belarus – Website
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 named Forest Jerusalem.
Please watch the nine videos of Tamara telling us more.
The road into the forest.
Naliboki Forest (Belarusian: Налібоцкая пушча, Nalibotskaya Pushcha (pushcha: wild forest, primeval forest)) is a large forest complex in the northwestern Belarus, on the right bank of the Neman River, on the Belarusian Ridge.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naliboki_forest
Alexander and Ivan walking towards the partisan camp.
Tamara Vershitskaya in the Naliboki Forest
Source: youtu.be/oaL75ktaeVs
Tamara Vershitskaya
Source: youtu.be/wt1odw9pU9c
A metal bucket
Tamara Vershitskaya
Source: youtu.be/HQ8HCRYDVJM
Tamara Vershitskaya talks about the Naliboki Forest and the Bielskis
Source: youtu.be/q6u8qcKO7Cg
Tamara Vershitskaya
Source: youtu.be/5C_M-kNrJiA
Tamara Vershitskaya
Source: youtu.be/OKc_wMsKxwE
Tamara Vershitskaya
Source: youtu.be/bOKtffhGIkk
Tamara Vershitskaya talks about Naliboki Forest and Bielskis with Alexander Pilinkievich
Source: youtu.be/Uc6O0YJUyfc
Ivan preparing our picnic lunch near the fire ranger
A VERY treif lunch – I had the herring!
Beekeepers
Trees for sale
www.arielluckey.com www.comuntierra.org In May 2013, the Luckey Brothers journeyed to their great-great-grandfather’s childhood village Lubca in rural Belaru…
Source: youtu.be/XPCGtmxd2Hk
Source: elirab.me/zog-nit-keynmol/
The Bielski partisans were an organization of Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination and fought against the Nazi German occupiers and their collaborators in the vicinity of Nowogródek (Navahrudak) and Lida in German-occupied Poland (now western Belarus). They are named after the Bielskis, a family of Polish Jews who led the organization.
