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Without any bodies
Rocks for grave stones
No bones.
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Translations by Judie Goldstein
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Without any bodies Rocks for grave stones No bones. |
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at a Yizkor [Memorial] gathering of the Krynkers in Israel |
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that is made up of Krynker Relief Committee And Krynker Youth Circle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We call you to honor the memory of our Krynker Martyrs at the 12th Yahrzeit that is upcoming At Adelphi Hall, 74 5th Avenue, between 13th and 14th Street, New York, Room 10B.
Bendet Nisht came from Israel in order to be at our yearly Yizkor gathering. Bendet Nisht, besides working for world Jewry became well known by serving the Israeli government as Israeli Consul to Poland and Romania. As Consul in Poland he had the possibility of going to our shtetl Krynik three times. Bendet Nisht will be at the Yizkor gathering to tell us what he saw and heard in Krynik. He will also bring personal greetings from all the Krynkers in Israel, to the relatives and acquaintances.
At the Yizkor gathering people will speak about the plantation project our memorial in Israel. This year large Yizkor gatherings have also been organized in Chicago and Los Angeles and Bendet Nisht will also make appearances there. We urge you to come to the gathering and to honor our Krynker martyrs in a worthy manner.
Be on time! You will be able to see the “movies” from previous years' Yizkor gatherings and from Tursky's banquet. The “movies” of this year's gathering will be shown next year.
Krinker Memorial Fund Nota Koslowsky Itche Novi |
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From right, sitting: Yekutiel Tursky, Lois Shein, Baruch Niv,
Israel Stolarsky, Irving Novik, Yitzhak Farber Standing: Eli Levin, Aba Blok, Florence Friedman, Zaydl Kaplan, Mayer Bloch, Ester Schneiderman, Jankel Kirschner |
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Trees - Candles for the departed
In memory of our martyrs
The shocking Second World War came to an end. Individual Krynker survivors arrived in Israel and brought news of our hometown – terrible. Everyone was murdered, exterminated by the Nazi animals and their helpers among the Polish population. We were shaken even though we already knew about the situation of our brothers and sisters.
The Jewish settlement in Israel decided to propose a forest of six million trees in memory of our devoured brothers in Europe. We, Krynkers in Israel, as well as throughout the world, planted in Yaar HaKdoshim [Martyrs' Forest] up to two thousand trees in the “Krynker small forest” in memory and in the names of our annihilated townspeople.
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The Krynker Committeee in Israel had the idea to perpetuate the memory of our community with an institutional monument that would carry its name and at the same time serve as a point of renewal and vibrant life.
After much deliberation, we accepted the proposal of the general workers' organization “Histadrut” [The Jewish Agency] in Israel to build a children's house in a newly settled kibbutz, Rosh Hanikrah, located at the Lebanonese border. The kibbutz was being settled by young immigrant survivors, who had just arrived from refugee camps in Europe. There were already a few children there, but without a specially maintained building for them.
With “Histadrut's” help and the Krynker landsmanshaften in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Israel the children's house was built at the kibbutz and it is now full of happiness and high spirits.
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of the Krynki martyrs, in Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra |
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To perpetuate the memory of our annihilated Jewish community we planted trees in the name of those murdered on “Yaar HaKdoshim” [Martyrs' Mount] and built the children's house in Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra. However we still were not satisfied.
We took on a third task to erect for our Jewish hometown a written memorial that would be sent to every Krynker family and individual Jews wherever they were in the world, to their homes. That is the Yizkor Book that you see before your eyes.
Below is an extract from the “brochure” which was published about three years ago as an indication of the content for the projected “Pinkus Krynki”.
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“Krynik in Khurbn” (Holocaust in Krynik)
A memorial book, by Abraham Soifer a Krynker survivor, was published in 1948 by the Krynker Relief Union of Uruguay and Argentina.
The book, 269 pages, printed in Montevideo is illustrated and contains a map of Krynik on which the ghetto limits are drawn.
The author dedicates the opening chapter to “young memories of a dear time in the past,” describing life in the shtetl until the outbreak of the Second World War. Then he goes on to events in Krynki from the beginning of the war and describes life in the shtetl under the Red Army until the sudden attack by the Germans in June 1941. Then Soifer describes his flight from home to the East, his joining a Russian partisan group and his perilous return during his mission to Krynki.
Here he first describes what he found, saw and lived through in the ghetto and the destruction of the community. Soifer further describes his survival with the remnant in the work camp where the Nazis, after forcing out the Jews from Krynik, “employed” slaves to do the work of Hitler's war machine. These were a couple of hundred Jewish tradesmen and from there they were taken on their last journey to Auschwitz.
In the rest of the book A. Soifer tells what happened and the suffering he saw and endured in the “king of demons” destruction in the extermination camps and what he and other Krynkers experienced. They all displayed valor and were heroic and generously helped to fight these evil men and even took part in the plan to blow up the crematoria.
We have taken excerpts from “Krynik in Khurbn” and put them in our Yizkor Book.
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At the cemetery in Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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