Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator
Hedva Scop
Our sincere appreciation to Sara Weiss-Slep
for permission
to put this material on the JewishGen web site.
This is a translation from: Ayara Hayeta B'Lita; Dusiat B'Rei Hazichronot,
There Was a Shtetl in Lithuania; Dusiat Reflected in Reminiscences
Compiled and edited by Sara Weiss-Slep, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1989, S. Segal & Co.
Copyrighted by Sara Weiss-Slep.
Purchase details for a printed copy of this translation can be found at http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_Dusetos.html
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This is not an ordinary Yizkor Book prepared by former members of a Jewish community that was destroyed. It is a
living book, an act of grace to the survivors of the Dusiat community, a
treasure for the scholar and everyone interested in the Jewish communities that
once were, and no longer exist.
In searching for her roots, Sara Weiss has delved into the history of her
family. With the ability of a scholar, the devotion of a loving daughter, and
with utmost dedication, she collected every grain, every crumb of information,
and strung them together like precious stones, like costly pearls on the thread
running through the life of a Jewish community in Lithuania. The book breathes
the life of this small community – the way of life of its Jews, their
language and speech at times of celebration and mourning, their struggle for
their daily bread, and their longing for Zion.
Like links in a chain, the people of Dusiat, parents and children, members of
the pioneering youth movements, set out for Hachshara and Aliya
to
Eretz Yisrael, to do their part in the building of the homeland.
Until the annihilator appeared and severed the chain of generations…
Sara Neshamit-Shner
Beit Lohamei Haghetaot
Translated by Judy Grossman |
