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Holocaust Martyrs 'and Heroes' Remembrance Day
After getting to know their peers who perished in the Holocaust, the year of the mitzvah takes an exciting turn
11.5-year-old Zisel Goldlist was murdered in Treblinka and 11-year-old Natan Meir was murdered in Auschwitz.
Hadar and Nitai will commemorate their memory at their bar / bat mitzvah in a personal way, thus joining many youths in Israel, who become "memorial messengers" of children who perished.
The unique way to pass on the memory of the Holocaust to the younger generation
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Holocaust and Heroism Day
Auschwitz
Bar Mitzvah
Yad Vashem
Eli Ashkenazi
Thursday, 08 April 2021, 12:32 Updated: 12:36
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Children and teenagers who survived the Holocaust, in the Auschwitz concentration camp after being liberated by the USSR army, January 1945 (Photo: AP)
6,000 Jews lived at the beginning of World War II in the city of Chaimlink in the Kielce district of Poland.
They made up 80% of the city's residents.
In October 1942, the centuries-old Haimlink Jewish community came to an end.
On October 5 and 6, German SS forces surrounded the ghetto where the Jews were concentrated in the city, along with thousands of other Jews who had been transferred there from other settlements.
500 Jews were shot dead in the ghetto during the deportation.
8,500 Jews were transported 45 kilometers to the town of Khancini, when hundreds of them were shot to death on the way there.
The rest were sent to the Treblinka death camp and murdered there.
Among the thousands who came to Treblinka was also an 11.5-year-old girl named Zisel Goldlist.
There is no one left of her nuclear family, and her name was first commemorated on a witness page at Yad Vashem in 1996.
This year, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the candle of the girl Hadar Yonah from Modi'in will be lit in her memory.
Her grandparents immigrated to Eretz Israel before the war, but all of their families who remained in Haimlink were murdered, as were Zissel and her family.
Hadar celebrates the Bat Mitzvah this year and like many girls and members of the Mitzvah, this year undergoes a list of tasks that she formulated together with her family, with the intention of molding content and meaning into the Bat Mitzvah year.
The "Memorial Apostles" program at Yad Vashem is pouring unique and exciting content for its mitzvah year and that of many other youth.
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The "Memorial Messengers" program pours unique content for the mitzvah year of many youth.
Yad Vashem Museum (Photo: Noam Moskowitz)
"A tour of Yad Vashem seemed important to me, but I was looking for a way to do it in a way tailored to Hadar's age," said her mother, Adi.
Already a few years ago, she heard about the "memorial messengers" program that exists at Yad Vashem and her daughter, Noam, participated in it, and last week Hadar also went through the same program.
In the frame, Yad Vashem brings together the sons and daughters of the mitzvah with their personal stories and the lives of children who did not have time to mention their bar / bat mitzvah.
These are a boy or girl with whom they have some common denominator, such as a date of birth, first name or place of family origin.
Even before that, the bar mitzvah with his family organizes a tour of Yad Vashem that is suitable for ages 12-13.
The guide focuses on the lives of children at that time and deals with content that invites study and discussion of questions of identity, belonging to the community, connection to the family, community and Jewish heritage.
A memorial candle in her memory.
The girl Zisel Goldlist who was murdered in Treblinka (Photo: Yad Vashem)
Marina Biklnicki of the Yad Vashem Training Division, who is in charge of the Mitzvah Shlichim program, says that this program has been active for several years among Jewish communities abroad. She said, "Families who come to Israel with their children during the Bar Mitzvah year have sought such content at Yad Vashem .
"Only recently have we started to transfer the program to Israeli children as well," she says.
Bicklinsky explained that "through the personal story of one boy or one girl, the subject of the Holocaust can be passed on to children aged 12-13.
About 1.5 million children were murdered during the Holocaust, this is a number that is difficult to grasp and digest, through one personal story it is possible to convey this issue to children. "
"Through one personal story it is possible to convey the subject to children."
Hadar Yonah on tour at Yad Vashem (Photo: Photos by surfers, Adi Yonah)
The boy Nitai Noam was at Yad Vashem on Friday a week and a half ago.
His father said it was an initiative of the boy, who is interested in the Holocaust and reads books on the subject.
"I was not afraid it would be too hard or too heavy," says the father.
"This generation is exposed to so much content that we have no control over it, and here there is something with the mediation of a guide and while adapting the content," he explains.
Nitai will be the memorial messenger of a boy named Natan Meir, whose first name is similar to his own.
Natan Meir grew up in the town of Czewynia in the Kraków district of Poland.
1,500 Jews lived in the town on the eve of the Holocaust.
Most of them were sent on May 29, 1942 to the Auschwitz death camp.
Among them was 11-year-old Nathan.
Only 270 members of the community survived the end of the war.
The boy Natan Meir who was murdered in Auschwitz at the age of 11 (Photo: Yad Vashem)
Biklinsky says that "the way of memory and commemoration is personal and each child does it his way. There is someone who danced in honor of the girl she remembers, someone else made a presentation and there are children who light a candle for the child they remember, some draw a picture of that child. Many ways of expression and personality." .
Maya, 12, from Kiryat Gat, said she would share with her classmates the story of Esther Lowel from Lodz, Poland, about whom she learned during and after the tour.
"At school we learn about the Holocaust as a general historical subject - and not about people. This is a special opportunity for me to learn the subject through the story of the children's lives," she says.
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