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World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust
International Conference of Child Survivors & Families Warsaw, Poland August 19-22, 2011 Part 1: Conference, Irena Sendler Teachers Awards, Righteous Among the Nations
Poland Conference Warsaw Conference leaders Anna Drabik and Aleksandra Kopystynska open the conference. WFJCSH President Stefanie Seltzer joins them.
Rabbi Michael Schudrich leads lighting of Memorial Candles. Top right, Stefanie Seltzer, President of WFJCSH. Bottom left, Philipp Sonntag, Germany.
Memorial candles lit by Helena Roth, 3G, USA. Back row, Renata Zajdman (Poland/Canada), Hania Rosenberg (Poland/Sweden), Philipp Sonntag (Germany), Stefanie Seltzer (Poland/USA), Jozef Walaszczyk (Poland).
Above, Havdalah service, Rabbi Schudrich, Dasha Rittenberg, Poland/USA. Bottom left: Aleksandra Kopystynska, Anna Drabik, Israel Ambassador Zvi Rav-Ner, Stefanie Seltzer, US Ambassador Lee A. Feinstein.
Anna Drabik introduces speakers: Polish Cabinet President, Mr. Jacek Michalovski, bottom left, Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, bottom right, Prof. Adam Rotsfeld
Top, Prof Felixs Tych, bottom left, Israel Ambassador Zvi Rav Ner.
Prof. Aleksander Skotnicki speaks about Jews in Pre-war Krakow.
Top left, Plenary speaker Helena Datner Top right, Greg Schneider, Claims Conference Bottom left, US Ambassador Lee A. Feinstein.
Top, panel on Jewish identity: Bottom, panel on Holocaust Education: From left: Norm Conard, USA, Judge Sanja Tabakovic, Croatia, Karen Brass, USA, Charles Silow, USA.
Panel on Anti-Semitism in Europe today: Moderator Stephen Adler, USA, Phill Sonntag, Germany, Melita Svob, Croatia, Max Arpels Lezer, Netherland, Hania Rosenberg, Sweden, Prof. Andrzej Jonas, Poland.
Panelists, above left, Stefanie Seltzer, USA, Max Arpels Lezer, Netherlands, above right, Melita Svob, Croatia, bottom left, Hania Rosenberg, Poland/Sweden.
Meals, time to schmooze, get to know each other….
On left, including: Marta Shemtov, Canada, Anita Ekstein , Canada, Tamaro Root, Hanila Levitt, Betty Berman, Dasha Rittenberg. USA, Anna Cheszes, Avram Cheszes, Canada.
Bottom right, Miriam and Fred Ferber, Poland/USA, and friends.
Multiple generations were present, from Poland and outside of Poland: Top left, Gun family from Detroit, USA Bottom left, Silbergleit family, Detroit, Bottom right, family from Lodz, Lublin.
The younger set, Third and Fourth Generations.
Righteous Among the Nations Top left: Jozef Walaszczyk, Ewa Rudnik and Alicja Schnepf .
Members of the Second and Third Generations, from Poland and outside of Poland. Top left, Polish artist Malgosia Malinowska ; bottom left, Charley Silow, USA, and friend from Lodz, Charley’s family’s town, Mirka Gluck.
Above: 2G’s from USA, Charley Silow, Karen Brass, Susan Sondheimer, friends… Bottom, from left: Mark Clemen, mother, Marion Weinzweig, daughter Cindi Katz, USA, and new friend Anna Piasecka from Poland.
“The People of the Book…”
Back to us. Teresa Langner, behind are:
Danuta Cukier, Ela Lesiak, Renia Szymanska
Top left: Norm Conard, USA, Bieta Ficowska, Poland, Prof. Joanna Michlich, Brandeis University, USA Bottom left Prof. Skotnicki receives warm thanks.
Marian Tyrowicz and Jagoda Hofmokl
Bulletin Boards help people still searching for childhood friends, lost relatives.
Interviews for Polish TV
Singing and dancing….
Closing Ceremony
Banner given to Rose Gelbart, Cleveland, USA, for 2012 conference
Irena Sendler Teachers Awards
Left: Elzbieta Ficowska, Norm Conard, USA, and friends. Bottom: Norm and old friend Renata Zajdman, Poland/Canada
Renata Zajdman receives special Award from Polish State for building Polish-Jewish friendship. Bottom right, long time friend Bieta Ficowska gives bouquet and embrace.
Irena Sendler Teachers Awardees, main winner, center, is Grazyna Ferenc.
Righteous Awards Ceremony Sponsored by Yad Vashem, Israel Embassy See website for the Righteous Program details.
World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust
International Conference of Child Survivors & Families Warsaw, Poland August 19-22, 2011 Part 2: Jewish Warsaw Lodz, Majdanek, Lublin Krakow Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jewish Warsaw
Above: synagogue Right: New Museum of History of Jews in Poland.
Warsaw
Lodz
Charley Silow visited his family’s town, Lodz, the ghetto and the cemetary where his grandfather is buried.
Camps Majdanek
One of the gas chambers. Bottom left, phony “showers”.
Memorial composed of ashes, bottom left. Bottom right, the town in the distance.
Lublin
KRAKOW Kazimierz
Krakow Memorial
Camps Auschwitz Birkenau
Bottom: crematoria blown up by SS.
Kaddish at Birkenau, end of railroad tracks
Auschwitz Preservation
The Director of Auschwitz explains the educational aspects and need for preservation.
In order to teach the future generations, everything at Auschwitz must be preserved.
Some Auschwitz items needing care, preservation, to be viewed by future generations.
Leaving Auschwitz
Jewish Music Festivals, Klezmer groups, Yiddish Theatre performances, in Yiddish by non-Jews, are big tourist attractions, “About us, without us.”
Karen Brass, USA, brought a family plaque to be put on her family’s home.
Saying goodbyes
THE END
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