Shoa Heroes Interview with Silvan Shalom Six survivors, six torches to six million By Ray Archeld for Guysen News
International Day for the Remembrance of Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust (Yom HaShoah in Hebrew, literally "the day of the Holocaust ") is a national day of commemoration in Israel during which honors the memory of the 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust. It is a solemn day, beginning with the setting Sun on 27 Nissan month and ends the following evening, according to traditional Jewish custom. The central ceremonies, the first night and the next morning, take place at Yad Vashem and are broadcast on television. Signaling the beginning of the ceremony, the President of the State of Israel, Prime Minister, dignitaries, survivors, children of survivors and their families, and meet the public, to attend the memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem where 6 torches are lit, symbolizing the 6 million Jews killed. This year too, people with an exceptional destiny, because it survived the unspeakable, light the flame of remembrance. Portraits.
Debora Reiss-Mossel Esther, the youngest daughter of Joseph and Elsa was born in 1938 in Heiloo, Netherlands, in a famous Zionist family.
During the raid of May 26, 1943, the family is sent to the Westerbork transit camp. After being hospitalized for several weeks by a number of diseases, Esther is a Jewish association committed to learning where Jewish and Zionist songs.
On January 19, 1944, the family of Esther is sent to Bergen-Belsen, where her father makes one stop before arriving in Eretz Israel. But he and his wife are patients of typhoid.
In April 1945, approximately 2,500 prisoners are forced up in what will later become "the train lost." Elsa remains in Bergen-Belsen where they died.
For weeks, the train travels to get to Theresienstadt, but is attacked by gunfire from German and Red Army forces. About a quarter of the passengers died during the trip.
On the morning of April 23, a Russian soldier shouts: "Comrades - freedom!". The train is finally released near Troebitz Elster, about 20 km from Leipzig.
In Troebitz, Chana and Mossel Tzadok adopt Esther and her brothers and sisters. The family returned to Amsterdam in August. During the summer of 1950 the dream of Esther's parents is done. Tzadok and Chana immigrated to Israel. Today, active in the commemoration of the Jews who saved other Jews during the war.
Esther is married to architect Elimelech Reiss, who helped design the Yad Vashem Memorial plan for children. He has three daughters and five grandchildren. Read
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Paz was born in 1930 in Lwow. His father, Herman, a civil judge, dies when Leah is five years. Like her mother then decided to move with her to town where you live Kochawina Read the grandfather of a large farm.
In September 1942, Lea, Gusta and her grandmother travel to Belzec. With rumors circulating about the countryside on the train Like Leah pushes out through a narrow opening on the side of the train. Read
finally finds his way and returns with his grandfather, who escaped deportation. His uncle who lives in Palestine Mundek turned again to introduce his bride to his family. Is in the midst of war, and decides to help her. We buy false papers, teaches prayer and Christian habits, encouraging them to emigrate to the land of Israel. Read
lives with the family Plauszewski first, then with Stephen Gos, a relative of the family, whose husband is a Polish commander. His rescuers were recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.
Before liberation, the grandfather of Leah and Mundek denounced by one of its neighbors. Read
then travels to Palestine on a boat of illegal immigrants are detained by the British and interned in Cyprus. During a demonstration organized by internees Read is wounded by gunfire from the British police.
This story, published in the Jewish press in Palestine under the mandate, allowed relatives of the kibbutz Merhavia discover that she was alive. Read below to get to know, once allowed to immigrate to Eretz Israel. Ephraim married, have two children and six grandchildren. Luddite
Barnea and Lia Huber are twin sisters born in 1937 in the city of Simleul Silvaniei in Transylvania (annexed by Hungary in 1940). In June 1942 his father Zvi is sent to a forced labor unit on the Russian front.
After the conquest of Hungary by the Germans in March 1944, property and household assets are confiscated, and all are required to wear the yellow star.
In May 1944, Luddites, Lia and her mother Rachel Miriam are interned in a ghetto. The following month, are transferred to Auschwitz from many other family members.
In Auschwitz, the infamous twin sisters suffering from medical experiments of Josef Mengele. Every night, her mother slips on your block to give them a piece of bread. The output for washing, combing their hair and prevent head lice and sentenced to the gas chambers.
One day, Rachel Miriam erupts in the hut where Mengele do experiments on her daughters and begged him to stop. In response, we injected a poison that finally does not kill but leaves deaf. In June 1945 the young and the mother were liberated by the Red Army. Return to their city of Simleul Silvaniei, and in August of 1945 reunited with his father, a survivor of several camps.
In 1960 the family immigrated to Israel. The two married sister, Lia and her husband Jean have two children and seven grandchildren Moshe Luddites and have three children and five grandchildren. Mirjam
Schuster was born in 1935 in Zarojani, Moldova, in a Jewish family of six children. In 1941 his family was displaced by Romanian soldiers and forced to go to Transnistria.
After more than two months running day and night, Mirjam and his family arrive to Balki, near the town of Bar, where hundreds of Jewish prisoners are gathered in crowded sheds with no windows or doors, where hunger and disease are common. Mirjam older sisters carry out smuggling of food in the nearby town, to meet the needs of children locked up. Mirjam
remembers a Jewish boy called Mendele, introduced in smuggling the field by their parents. He takes it and protects it from the other children tormented him. One day, the Germans murdered Mendele, a death deeply marked Mirjam.
In 1944, the Soviets released Balki. More than 10,000 prisoners, only a few hundred survived. After liberation, the Jewish Agency Mirjam placed in a children's home. Decides to immigrate to Israel a few months later.
irregular mounted on board a ship intercepted by the British, who diverted the ship to Cyprus. Just before statehood, Israel Mirjam finally arrives.
Moshe Married with three children and eight grandchildren. Later becomes a volunteer to help new immigrants integrate into Israel. Is now director of the organization "Help Survivors of the Holocaust. "
Shimon (Sjema) Greenhouse was born in 1932 in Krasna, Belarus, in a traditional Jewish Zionist family. His brothers and sisters, Henya and Mendel, are active in the Zionist federations and prevention migrate in mandated Palestine.
In late 1941, after the Germans invaded the USSR, Shimon and his family are interned in the ghetto Krasna. Shimon and his mother get out of the ghetto and meet with a Polish friend who gives them food and manages to convince an official of the SS not to kill them.
One day the Germans decided to gather the Jews of the ghetto in the central square and shoot them one by one. Shimon and her father, Yekutiel, are there, their hands tied. When Yekutiel is run, blowing his son. Shimon remains under her father's body, covered in blood, for a whole day, so that family members take him out of there.
In March 1943, the Germans are preparing to liquidate the ghetto, killing its inhabitants, including Mendel and Henya. Shimon and her mother were hidden for five days with 20 others. When they come out of hiding, the ghetto is empty and the air smells of burned bodies. Shimon typhus is healing, his mother takes him on his back to get to the swamps where the partisans were hiding.
After the war, Shimon and his mother returned to Krasna. In 1950, emigrate to Israel. Shimon married, has four in a secondary school in Petah Tikva.
Solomon (Sjema) Feigerson born in 1930 in Liepaja, Latvia. Hanoch his older brother was executed in June 1941, when he defended the city from the Germans. His father Yaakov was killed in July 1941, and his mother and his brother Josef were executed in February 1942. Solomon escapes to another operation carried out in April.
In July 1942, are enclosed in Liepaja Jews into a ghetto. Solomon then live in a room with 20 other orphans. In October 1943, the ghetto is liquidated and Solomon is sent to labor camp Kaiserwald. Goldblatt meets Lina, a prisoner of Hamburg, and her daughter, Rosa. "It was like a mother to me," he remembers, "I even sewed a shirt and pants."
In August 1944, Solomon was taken to the Stutthof concentration camp in April 1945 and is located in one of four boats carrying 500 prisoners, sent in the Baltic Sea to die. Your ship is finally to Neustadt on 3 May 1945. The German sailors found on the banks get to shoot the survivors. A British soldier is to Solomon, exhausted and sick.
After the war, Solomon traveled to Riga. Studied engineering and began to found a family. Campaigns with Holocaust survivors and other people for emigration to Israel. Arrives in Israel in 1971 where he worked as an engineer and volunteer for a number of organizations on the commemoration of the Holocaust and survivor assistance. Also published a book on the destruction of the Jewish community in Liepaja.
Solomon and his wife Ethel have a son and two grandchildren.