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Witnessing Holocaust History: From Generation To Generation
Witnessing Holocaust History: From Generation To Generation – A New Global Project Partnership between WE ARE HERE! Perth, Australia, HAMEC Philadelphia and World ORT, London #education
From: Eli Rabinowitz
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020
Perth, Australia
This global program will start with 19 ORT schools on 27 January 2021, and will continue with more schools for Yom Hashoah through 8/9 April 2021
Website:
https://wah.foundation/witnessing-holocaust-history-from-generation-to-generation/
Press Statement from HAMEC:
WITNESSING HOLOCAUST HISTORY: FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
WITNESSING HOLOCAUST HISTORY: FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION
HAMEC ORT WAH! Ruth Almy Intro 27 January 2021
Source: youtu.be/Fqm3R-h6RPE
Participating ORT Schools for the 27 January 2021 event are:
| Country/ City | Timezone | School |
| Mexico/ Mexico City | CST | CIM-ORT |
| South Africa/ Cape Town | SAST | Herzlia |
| South Africa/Johannesburg | SAST | King David Victory Park High |
| Bulgaria/Sofia | EEST | Dimcho Debelianov Hebrew and English Language School |
| Netherlands/ Amsterdam | CET | JSG Maimonides |
| Spain/Madrid | CET | ORT Colegio Estrella Toledano |
| Russia/ St Petersburg | MST | ORT de Gunzburg Secondary School # 550 “Shorashim” |
| Russia/ Samara | SST | Samara ORT Secondary School# 42, “Gesher” |
| Russia/ Moscow | MST | ORT Tekhiya, Center of Education # 1311 |
| Russia/Moscow | MST | ORT Moscow Technology School, Gymnasium # 1540 |
| Russia/ Kazan | MST | ORT “Mishpahteinu” Secondary School # 12 |
| Ukraine/ Chernivtsi | EEST | ORT Specialized School #41 |
| Ukraine/ Kiev | EEST | Kiev ORT Educational Complex #141 |
| Ukraine/ Odessa | EEST | ORT Secondary School # 94 |
| Ukraine/ Zhaporozhie | EEST | ORT “Aleph” Jewish Gymnasium |
| Moldova/ Kishinev | EEST | ORT Technology Lyceum |
| Estonia/ Tallinn | EEST | ORT Tallinn Jewish School |
| Latvia/ Riga | EEST | ORT Network Jewish Secondary School |
| Lithuania/ Vilnius | EEST | Vilnius Sholom Aleichem ORT School |
Bielski Reunion, Belarus
For more info about this post, contact Eli Rabinowitz eli@elirab.com
The World Premiere of the four language Partisan Song
The World Premiere of the four language Partisan Song
Ellenbrook Secondary College & Carmel High SchoolAt Ellenbrook Secondary College5 August 2019
Source: youtu.be/iIJ-rC-DcWA
#WeRemember
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
27 January 2020
Holocaust Remembrance Day – The Words THAT Matter!
Words can make a difference – both for good and evil. ORT students have been using the defiantly optimistic words of Vilna poet Hirsh Glik to inspire themselves and others as part of our ongoing campaign to bring Zog nit Keynmol to new generations. This video shows just a few highlights of their stunning recitals of Glik’s lyrics to the song, which is renowned as the anthem of the Jewish partisans.
ORT Multi language: Source Youtube: https://youtu.be/FoN-28ZpJBw
ORT St Petersburg, Russia Recited in English: Source: youtu.be/7zesjCyfE_Y
For more info: please visit https://elirab.me/zog-nit-keynmol/
Maryusya Zarembo, student at ORT de Gunzburg School #550 in St Petersburg, Russia, is in awe of Hirsh Glik’s defiantly optimistic lyrics to Zog Nit Keynmol, the anthem of the Jewish partisans.
“This is the first time I’ve read or heard the poetry of someone from that time. It’s hard for me to imagine how he could have found the time or energy to be creative in those circumstances, but he did. And his verses are very powerful and life-affirming,” Maryusya said.
Learning the lyrics, Maryusya said, had made her think about the Holocaust and its lessons for humanity.
“We have to learn that a person must not be humiliated or destroyed because of their ethnicity, faith or politics,” she said. “We can’t expect everyone to be a saint but the more we protect each other, the more tolerant we are, the stronger humanity will become. The alternative is extinction.”
The Partisans’ Song in English
by Hirsh Glik, as translated by Aaron Kremer
Never say that there is only death for you,
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue,
Because the hour we have hungered for near;
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble — we are here!
From land of palm tree to the far-off land of snow,
We shall be coming with our torment and our woe;
And everywhere our blood has sunk into the earth,
Shall our bravery, our vigor blossom forth.
We’ll have the morning sun to set our day aglow,
And all our yesterdays shall vanish with the foe;
And if the time is long before the sun appears,
Then let this song go like a signal through the years.
This song was written with blood and not with lead;
It’s not a song that summer birds sing overhead;
It was a people among toppling barricades,
That sang this song of ours with pistols and grenades.
Never say that there is only death for you,
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue,
Because the hour we have hungered for is near;
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble — we are here!
Ellenbrook Secondary College and Carmel School
Western Australia
The World Premiere – the four language Partisan Song
In Yiddish, Hebrew, English and Noongar (Aboriginal)
The World Premiere of the four language Partisan Song
Source: youtu.be/iIJ-rC-DcWA
THE PARTISANS’ Song – in Cape Town
with Survivor Miriam Lichterman
Zog Nit Keynmol – in Cape Town with Miriam Lichterman
Source: youtu.be/GKKZgimSOtE
ORT Kiev #141 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Kiev #141 – Zog Nit Keynmol
The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/rz3UErZJAJw
ORT St Petersburg #550 – Zog Nit Keynmol – #3
ORT St Petersburg #550 – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/VxZL6WpkvZw
ORT St Petersburg #550 – Zog Nit Keynmol – #2
ORT St Petersburg #6 – Zog Nit Keynmol – #2
Source: youtu.be/5mSf5NpIKM4
ORT Moscow #1540 Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Moscow #1540 Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/9SIY-IZJ9Hc
Lauder School Tula – Zog Nit Keynmol
Lauder School Tula – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/llKaelpDJjE
ORT Kazan #12 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Kazan #12 – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/j-H2duiFNRU
ORT Dnepropetrovsk #144 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Dnepropetrovsk #144 – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/xATkR_FWKV0
ORT #94 Odessa – The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
ORT #94 Odessa – The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
Source: youtu.be/9qLqSepTb28
ORT #41 Chernivtsi -The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
ORT #41 Chernivtsi -The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
Source: youtu.be/cEj0RusVgUQ
ORT Kishinev #22 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Kishinev #22 – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/0BtV4yUX4cA
Tallinn Jewish School – Zog Nit Keynmol
Tallinn Jewish School – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/NytvW0TSgio
WeRemember – Zog Nit Keynmol
WeRemember – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/SL9FjpzCYNE
School #4 Novogrudok, Belarus
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Source: youtu.be/mC-ENiOXrhQ
Simonas Gurevicius & Daughters Sing Zog Nit Keynmol –
Simonas Gurevicius & Daughters Sing Zog Nit Keynmol – YouTube
Source: youtu.be/6BlmPWRpsVg
Yom Hashoah 2019
Zog Nit Keynmol
Never Say That You Have Reached The End Of The Road
Tonight is Yom Hashoah. Please read and view below and in turn, share your messages and videos with us!
Melbourne Yom Hashoah – Zog Nit Keynmol
Source: youtu.be/SvNoyReKxO0
The Partisans’ Song
Learn The Partisans’ Song | tangential travel
The ‘Partisans’ Song’ – Zog Nit Keyn 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, 76 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/
World ORT Compilation
Zog Nit Keynmol – ORT Compilation
Contributions by ORT schools in the FSU
Source: youtu.be/Fe2uPgyz4cI
The Partisans’ Song has been translated into 27 languages:
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 and ZULU
More Videos
Videos | tangential travel
Videos of the Partisan Poem and Song Project ORT Compilation videos: Herzl Lyceum ORT, Chisinau, Moldova ORT Tallinn, Estonia Solomo Aleichemo ORT, Vilnius, Lithuania Solomo Aleichemo ORT, ORT Chernivsti, Ukraine Kiev ORT #141, Ukraine ORT Odessa, Ukraine Moscow 1540 ORT, Russia Kazan ORT, Russia Samara ORT, Russia Mexico CIM ORT Herzlia High School, Cape Town, South Africa King David Victory Park, Johannesburg South Africa, Sauleketis School, Vilnius Lithuania
Source: elirab.me/videos/
The Partisan Poem – Never Say
Freidl Mrocki recites the poem – Zog Nit Keynmol – in English Written by Hirsh Glik in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943. Recorded in Feb 2017 at the Jewish Holocaust…
Source: youtu.be/9gS7c4iNCI0
Never say that there is only death for you,
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue,
Because the hour we have hungered for is near;
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble — we are here!
From land of palm tree to the far-off land of snow,
We shall be coming with our torment and our woe;
And everywhere our blood has sunk into the earth,
Shall our bravery, our vigor blossom forth.
We’ll have the morning sun to set our day aglow,
And all our yesterdays shall vanish with the foe;
And if the time is long before the sun appears,
Then let this song go like a signal through the years.
This song was written with blood and not with lead;
It’s not a song that summer birds sing overhead;
It was a people among toppling barricades,
That sang this song of ours with pistols and grenades.
Never say that there is only death for you,
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue,
Because the hour we have hungered for is near;
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble, — we are here!
Online Collaboration 2019 – Herzlia and ORT
This is the third online collaboration on the Jewish Partisans between Herzlia School in Cape Town and World ORT schools in the FSU.
The Partisans’ Song Video
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Herzlia School Vocal Ensemble sings Zog Nit Keyn Mol, 15 March 2019
Source: youtu.be/wjHPwDsffQk
photos
Kahoots
With Ella Blumenthal
For more information please visit the website
WE ARE HERE! An Education Program That Inspires Upstanders
WE ARE HERE! Global Program For Upstanders
WE ARE HERE! for Upstanders is a global program that promotes universal human rights and inclusive development. We are headquartered in Perth, Australia.
Using the stories of the Jewish Partisans, WE ARE HERE! seeks to inspire in young people the confidence and ability to stand up in the face of prejudice and oppression.
The website: https://wah.foundation
This program is sponsored by a cultural grant from the U.S. Department of State.
PRESS:
THE AUSTRALIAN JEWISH NEWS – 18 January 2019
J-Wire Australia
http://www.jwire.com.au/partisans-song-translated-from-yiddish-to-noongar/
The Partisans’ Song in Noongar: 
Audio:
Audio PlayerMore details on our website: https://wah.foundation
Holocaust educator and specialist Nance Adler of Seattle, Washington will visit Australia in August 2019. Nance will present to teachers, students and community leaders involved in education. We will also run workshops.
Nance’s Partisans’ Project and Lesson Plan have already been translated by our global team into Russian, Lithuanian, German, Polish and Spanish, and are available for free! https://wah.foundation/lesson/lesson-plan/
Professor Lynne Cohen, recently retired vice-chancellor of ECU – Edith Cowan University, has joined our project team. Lynne was also Head of the ECU School of Education in Western Australia
Our international team of educators and collaborators: https://wah.foundation/who-we-are/
Through our network of global collaborators, there are now 27 language translations of the Partisans’ Song. The Partisans’ Song portal: https://elirab.me/znk
In 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 and XHOSA
Recently we arranged translations into Aboriginal Noongar, Arabic and Xhosa, and soon in Zulu, Mongolian and Ladino.
The Partisans’ Song will be sung in Noongar in July at Ellenbrook Senior High School, with planned national media coverage of this World Premiere!
There is a strong theme connecting the Jewish Partisans and William Cooper, the Aboriginal leader who attempted to deliver his protest to the Nazi consulate in Melbourne on 6 December 1938, just after Kristallnacht. William’s petition was eventually accepted by Germany in 2017: http://www.jwire.com.au/uncle-boydie/
The Gandel Foundation, Melbourne has recently announced two scholarships in the name of William Cooper.
Our Melbourne educator, Viv Parry, produced a movie, Ties That Bind, in 2017. Read more: https://elirab.me/ties-that-bind/
This powerful nine minute documentary film features Uncle Boydie, grandson of William Cooper, and Moshe Fiszman, a Holocaust survivor. https://youtu.be/1N700Olmw-U
Ties That Bind is now part of the USHMM’s – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s (in Washington) presentation.
We are writing a lesson plan for this documentary. This will be freely available to teachers and students around the world.
Our North Queensland collaborator, Barbara Miller, has written the book: William Cooper – Gentle Warrior
William Cooper, Gentle Warrior
We are also expanding our global online collaboration classes with World ORT and other schools. World ORT is the world’s largest Jewish education and vocational training non-governmental organisation. Several lesson plans will be offered to a global audience.
The Partisans’ Song in English recited for us by Freydi Mrocki: https://youtu.be/9gS7c4iNCI0
Our project features in a documentary on South African National Television in 2018: https://youtu.be/NRcGcNGrYWo
The Kristallnacht Cantata by Ron Jontof-Hutter of Melbourne and Israeli composer, Alon Trigger. Here is a 6 minute promo video: https://youtu.be/A3IlzEAwmIk. The full work will be about 35 minutes. This is based on this story of Ron’s grandfather, Otto Jontof-Hutter, and William Cooper: https://www.jwire.com.au/kristallnacht-and-the-righteous-australian-aboriginal-william-cooper/ Otto and William never met or even knew of each other’s existence!
Several orchestras around the world have shown a strong interest in performing the work.
Please contact me at eli@elirab.com
Eli Rabinowitz: bio https://elirab.me/about
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Projects For Your School:
https://elirab.me/znk
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.
The Power Of Words
The background and context
The ‘Partisans’ Song’ – Zog Nit Keyn 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.
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.
Words – Michael Cohen, Melbourne MC – Freydi Mrocki
https://youtu.be/SvNoyReKxO0
KEY WORDS FROM THE POEM
“Zog nit keyn mol, az du geyst dem letstn veg…….Never say that you have reached the end of the road……
Mir zaynen do! WE ARE HERE!
“This says that although it looks like the last moments of the life of the Jewish people, it is not, and where the blood was shed, will begin a new, a heroic and a wonderful Jewish life!” https://youtu.be/koA7fpGxRgw
(Quote: Cantor H Fox, LA)
Beis Aharon School, Pinsk, Belarus
https://youtu.be/yN3QGZkmGjY
ORT students recite Zog Nit Keynmol for Holocaust Remembrance Day
UN Holocaust Remembrance Day – 27 January 2018
ORT students recite Zog Nit Keynmol for Holocaust Remembrance Day
New Compilation Video
Source Youtube: https://youtu.be/FoN-28ZpJBw
Words can make a difference – both for good and evil, as Britain’s Holocaust Memorial Day Trust points out. ORT students have been using the defiantly optimistic words of Vilna poet Hirsh Glik to inspire themselves and others as part of our ongoing campaign to bring Zog nit Keynmol to new generations. This video shows just a few highlights of their stunning recitals of Glik’s lyrics to the song, which is renowned as the anthem of the Jewish partisans.
The Zog nit Keynmol campaign is the initiative of Eli Rabinowitz. If you would like to find out more please visit his blog: http://elirab.me/zog-nit-keynmol/.
Here are Glik’s lyrics, as translated by Aaron Kremer:
Never say that there is only death for you,
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue,
Because the hour we have hungered for near;
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble — we are here!
From land of palm tree to the far-off land of snow,
We shall be coming with our torment and our woe;
And everywhere our blood has sunk into the earth,
Shall our bravery, our vigor blossom forth.
We’ll have the morning sun to set our day aglow,
And all our yesterdays shall vanish with the foe;
And if the time is long before the sun appears,
Then let this song go like a signal through the years.
This song was written with blood and not with lead;
It’s not a song that summer birds sing overhead;
It was a people among toppling barricades,
That sang this song of ours with pistols and grenades.
Never say that there is only death for you,
Though leaden skies may be concealing days of blue,
Because the hour we have hungered for is near;
Beneath our tread the earth shall tremble — we are here!
The individual videos
ORT Kiev #141 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Kiev #141 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Kiev #141 Ukraine Recited in Ukrainian The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/rz3UErZJAJw
ORT St Petersburg #550 – Zog Nit Keynmol – #3
ORT St Petersburg #550 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT School #550 St Petersburg, Russia Recited in Russian The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/VxZL6WpkvZw
ORT St Petersburg #550 – Zog Nit Keynmol – #2
ORT St Petersburg #6 – Zog Nit Keynmol – #2
ORT St Petersburg, Russia Recited in Russian and Hebrew The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/5mSf5NpIKM4
ORT Moscow #1540 Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Moscow #1540 Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Moscow, Russia Recited in Russian, Hebrew & Yiddish The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/9SIY-IZJ9Hc
Lauder School Tula – Zog Nit Keynmol
Lauder School Tula – Zog Nit Keynmol
The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem – The Partisan Song Lauder School, Tula, Russia #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/llKaelpDJjE
ORT St Petersburg #550 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT St Petersburg #6 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT St Petersburg, Russia Recited in English The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/7zesjCyfE_Y
Maryusya Zarembo, an 8th grade student at ORT de Gunzburg School #550 in St Petersburg, Russia, is in awe of Hirsh Glik’s defiantly optimistic lyrics to Zog Nit Keynmol, the anthem of the Jewish partisans.
“This is the first time I’ve read or heard the poetry of someone from that time. It’s hard for me to imagine how he could have found the time or energy to be creative in those circumstances, but he did. And his verses are very powerful and life-affirming,” Maryusya said.
World ORT supports an initiative by Eli Rabinowitz to promote Zog nit Keynmol to new generations. Learning the lyrics, Maryusya said, had made her think about the Holocaust and its lessons for humanity.
“We have to learn that a person must not be humiliated or destroyed because of their ethnicity, faith or politics,” she said. “We can’t expect everyone to be a saint but the more we protect each other, the more tolerant we are, the stronger humanity will become. The alternative is extinction.”
ORT Kazan #12 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Kazan #12 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Kazan, Tartarstan, Russia Recited in Hebrew, English and Russian The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/j-H2duiFNRU
ORT Dnepropetrovsk #144 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Dnepropetrovsk #144 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine Recited in Ukrainian The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/xATkR_FWKV0
ORT #94 Odessa – The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
ORT #94 Odessa – The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
Recited in Russian Zog Nit Keynmol – The Partisan Song #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/9qLqSepTb28
ORT #41 Chernivtsi -The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
ORT #41 Chernivtsi -The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem
ORT Chenivtsi, Ukraine Recited in Hebrew Zog Nit Keynmol – The Partisan Song #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/cEj0RusVgUQ
ORT Kishinev #22 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Kishinev #22 – Zog Nit Keynmol
ORT Lyceum Herzl Kishinev. Recited in Moldavian The Holocaust Survivors Anthem #WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/0BtV4yUX4cA
Simonas Gurevicius & Daughters Sing Zog Nit Keynmol – YouTube
Simonas Gurevicius & Daughters Sing Zog Nit Keynmol – YouTube
President Vilnius Jewish Community Translation: Naomi: We are the Gurevich family from Vilnius, the Jerusalem of Lithuania. Avital: My name is Avital. Here i…
Source: youtu.be/6BlmPWRpsVg
Tallinn Jewish School – Zog Nit Keynmol
Tallinn Jewish School – Zog Nit Keynmol
#WeRemember
Source: youtu.be/NytvW0TSgio
WeRemember – Zog Nit Keynmol
WeRemember – Zog Nit Keynmol
The Holocaust Survivors’ Anthem ORT Moscow Technical School 1311
Source: youtu.be/SL9FjpzCYNE
Music and the Holocaust
World ORT
The Zog Nit Keynmol Project now appears on two of World ORT’s links
Source: holocaustmusic.ort.org/places/ghettos/vilna/zog-nit-keynmol/
Music and the Holocaust
Reference Links from ORT
Source: holocaustmusic.ort.org/resources-and-references/links/
In the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library:
A POSTHUMOUS LETTER TO Hirsh Glik
(Inspired by Irene Lilienheim Angelic’s letter to Leonard Cohen)
18 July 2017
Hirsh Glik
Dear Hirsh
“Zog Nit Keynmol” is Yiddish for “Never say…. that you have reached the end of the road”. These are the opening words to the poem that you wrote in the Vilna Ghetto during the horrendous times for Jews in 1943.
Yet your poem contains words of hope, heroism and inspiration for the partisans and the inmates of your ghetto. When you read “Zog Nit Keynmol” on the street corner to your friend Rachel Margolis, she matched it to the music of the 1938 Russian march by the Dmitri and Daniel Pokrass.
The song was soon sung in the ghettos and camps of Europe. It has been sung as a stirring anthem or hymn every year for 73 years since, by Survivors and others at Yom Hashoah ceremonies throughout the world. It has been translated into many languages.
The song is so well known but not necessarily well understood. Perhaps it is because it has been mostly sung in Yiddish, a language which is no longer spoken as it was in your time!
I established the Partisan Poem & Song project in February this year after I was asked by King David High Schools in Johannesburg, South Africa to address their 1000 high school students about the meaning, inspiration and context of the Partisan Song.
Our goal is to increase the understanding of the song’s powerful and positive message and, at the same time, create a bridge between your generation which originally sang it and future generations – creating continuity while there are still Holocaust Survivors among us.
To achieve this, school choirs are invited to learn the song in a language/s of their choice, to record their performance and post it on our dedicated website, to create a video tapestry of remembrance.
Within a few weeks of the project’s launch in February this year, World ORT, the world’s largest Jewish education and vocational training non-governmental organisation, operational in 37 countries, adopted the project. In their pilot, ten ORT schools in the Former Soviet Union submitted videos. These were compiled into a single video, sung in different languages, in time for Yom Hashoah.
We are now building resources to help students analyse and understand the song as you originally wrote it, namely as a poem. We have found 17 different language versions, making this a truly international program from its outset.
Yad Vashem has a resource for Teaching The Holocaust Through Poetry, using the poem “Refugee Blues” by famous British poet W H Auden. It was written in 1939, six months before war broke out, about Jewish refugees and not specifically about ghettos or camps.
Your Poem sits perfectly alongside Refugee Blues as the most important resource of a poem written in the ghetto during the Holocaust.
Mervyn Danker, a retired school principal based in San Francisco, has set up an outline of a study guide for teachers to use when teaching your poem or the song.
World renowned authorities such as Shirl Gilbert, are interested in the progress of this project, and educational NGOs in Poland, Lithuania, Austria and Poland are keen to participate.
Phillip Maisel, 93, a volunteer at the Holocaust Centre in Melbourne, Australia, is our direct link to you as he was your good friend, and was one of the first to hear your poem!
To watch the video and to read more, please visit our home page:
Zog Nit Keynmol
Menu Please watch this short video and join an inspiring project: From World ORT: Quote World ORT With each Yom HaShoah the number of Survivors dwindles making the challenge of engaging new gene…
Source: elirab.me/zog-nit-keynmol/
I will keep you posted as to how the project is growing.
Regards
Eli Rabinowitz
Perth, Australia
The direct link to the YouTube video is here:
London
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A visit to Google, DeepMind & Neil
St Pancras Station
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The West End
West End of London – Wikipedia
The West End of London (commonly referred to as the West End) is an area of Central and West London in which many of the city’s major tourist attractions, shops, businesses, government buildings and entertainment venues, including West End theatres, are concentrated.
Selfridges
Selfridges, Oxford Street – Wikipedia
Selfridges is a Grade II listed retail premises on Oxford Street in London. It was designed by Daniel Burnham for Harry Gordon Selfridge, and opened in 1909.[1] Still the headquarters of Selfridge & Co. department stores, with 540,000 square feet (50,000 m2) of selling space,[2] the store is the second largest retail premises in the UK,[1] half as big as the biggest department store in Europe, Harrods.[2] It was named the world’s best department store in 2010,[3] and again in 2012.[4]
Hammersmith
Westminster
St Albans
First Bunnings in the UK. Bunnings was started in Perth, Australia. Ten minute walk from Neil
Around the Nunnery
The Town
Reading Material
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St Albans – Wikipedia
St Albans /sənt ˈɔːlbənz/, /seɪn … / is a city in Hertfordshire, England, and the major urban area in the City and District of St Albans. It lies east of Hemel Hempstead and west of Hatfield, about 19 miles (31 km) north-northwest of London, 8 miles (13 km) southwest of Welwyn Garden City and 11 miles (18 km) south-southeast of Luton. St Albans was the first major town on the old Roman road of Watling Street for travellers heading north, and it became the Roman city of Verulamium. It is a historic market town and is now a dormitory town within the London commuter belt and the Greater London Built-up Area.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Albans
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