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Student at Bialik School in Tel Aviv during ceremony commemorating our community[2] |
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S. Dubiner in the Bialik School Commemoration Ceremony |
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Letter [in Hebrew] from School District Supervisor, Yaakov Niv, to Dov Aloni, authorizing Bialik School ceremony to perpetuate the memory of the Kamenetz-Litowsk community [see English translation below]. |
Office of Education and Culture Tel Aviv District.
To: Mr. Dov Aloni Organization of Kamenetzers Shor Street 17, Apartment 1 Tel Aviv. Dear Sir, We are pleased to accept your proposal that one of the eighth-grade classes in the H.N. Bialik State School of Tel Aviv will adopt the memory of your town Kamenetz Litowsk. I personally recall your town from when I lived in my town Swislocz in Poland[3]. Your town was steeped with a deep-rooted fount of Jewishnessnurturing pioneer-Zionist forces that were fruitful in shaping the vision of redemption. You are to be commended for your efforts to commemorate these victims, who were murdered by the impure hands of the Nazismay their memory be blotted out. With respect to details of the project, please be in touch with the school principal, Mr. M. Gurion.
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Haim Nahman Bialik School of Tel Aviv |
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Principal[4] of H.N. Bialik School of Tel Aviv speaking during the commemoration ceremony |
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Gideon Hausner speaking at the commemoration ceremony |
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During the commemoration ceremony |
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Recitation of Yizkor during the commemoration ceremony |
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During the exhibit, Kamenetzers view the reproduction that school pupils made to commemorate the Kamenetz community |
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Leah Bobrowski-Aloni speaking during the commemoration ceremony |
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Ḥaya Krakowski-Karabelnik during the commemoration ceremony |
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At the commemoration ceremony |
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The commemoration ceremony for the Kamenetz martyrs, in the Bialik School in Tel Aviv. |
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Students of the Bialik School, convened to perpetuate the memory of the Kamenetz martyrs. |
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Student choir of the Bialik School performing during the ceremony |
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We Shall Not Forget![5]
A hush had fallen over the auditorium. The eighth-grade pupils, the teachers and the honored guests that had come to the assembly sat there in silence. Sad memories had been aroused and came back to all those who had come from that communitynoticeable from hushed sobs that every now and then could be heard in the silence. All of us knew what the goal of our meeting had been: to remember! To remember all the events that our people experienced during the Second World War: the war atrocities, our innocent six million brothers and sisters who died in gas chambers and extermination camps. To remember and not forget! We must not forget them, and that is why we have assembled here.
We, the students of Grade 8, Class 4 at the H.N. Bialik School, have taken upon ourselves to adopt the community of Kamenetz-Litowsk and Zastavya. Before the Second World War this community teemed with life, labor and industry; and the yearning for redemption became deeply rooted in the hearts of its people. This community no longer existsit was wiped out and has perishedthe Nazis having destroyed it together with the other Jewish communities. But we will not forget this community. Although it is not within our power to bring it back to life, we are still able to erect a monument to it within our hearts. We will learn a great deal about this community, we will visit the remnant of those who came from there and are now in the Land of Israel, and we will be prepared to hungrily devour whatever they have to tell us about it.
I have been sitting among my fellow students listening to the speeches of our guests who were trying to transport us in our imagination to a different world, a world that was all suffering and agony: concentration camps, extermination chambers, ghettos; children next to their dead mothers; broad areas sown with the bones of many children who had never experienced the taste of life, who had never taken pleasure in the splendor of nature and the warmth of the sun. Children who came into this world in dark cellars and sewers. As I was sitting and listening, a powerful emotion of compassion for my brethren was roused in me, as well as frightful feelings of great hatred for the raving Nazi beast that drowned its victims in rivers of blood.
Naava Kozraz
A student of Grade 8, Class 4 of the H.N. Bialik School
From the booklet Remember! by the students of the H.N. Bialik School on the commemoration of the Kamenetz-Litowsk community and its martyrs
Footnotes
[Pages 251-278]
By Meir Bobrowski[2]
Translated by Allen Flusberg
Note by translator: an English translation of this list, converted into a searchable, alphabetically arranged list of names, appears at the very end of this volume under the title Necrology[3]
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