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Aharon Pick’s Memoir
We all have hopes and expectations for the new year. Mine are topped by the coming publication of a project I’ve been working on for three years: The translation of Aharon Pick’s Holocaust memoir, written from 1942-44 in the ghetto of Šiauliai. Continue reading
Posted in History, Holocaust, Literature, Memoir, Personalities
Tagged AharonPick, ghetto, Holocaust, Šiauliai, translation
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From Darkness to Light
By Rivka Shlapobersky-Strichman (Haifa, Israel)[1] In 1996, representatives of the Spielberg fund, who initiated the archiving of Holocaust survivor’s stories, asked to interview me. I wondered what I could share about my childhood and to my amazement I could gather … Continue reading
Among the Ruins
By Chaim Ronder The text of a letter sent to the Keidaner Society of Johannesburg by Chaim Ronder, a partisan during the German occupation. POGEGEN (Pagėgiai, Lithuania) 7 November, 1946 Warm brotherly greetings to you, Jews of Johannesburg – born … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Memoir, Personalities, Yizkor Book
Tagged ghetto, landsmanshaft, postwar, Red Army, Ronder, South Africa, Soviet Union
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After the Slaughter
By Mordechai Karnovsky Spring. Early morning. Only our footsteps can be heard in the street. Here, in front of Rabinovich’s store, is the haberdashery. Above it the Friedlands’ apartment. Looking left – Gurvich’s pharmacy and Wolpert’s shop. Another turn and … Continue reading
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Tagged Beitar, ghetto, Holocaust, Memoir, Ronder, Soviet Union
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The Road of Suffering
By Rachel Shlapobersky-Ratner (Kiryat Chaim, Israel) Based on testimony from Yad VaShem, IX – 2939 / 252. I was born in Keidan in December 1912. My father, Yudel Shlapobersky, owned a flour mill. My mother was Chasya Rivka Shlapobersky, neè … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Israel, Memoir, Personalities, South Africa, Soviet Union
Tagged Family history, gestapo, ghetto, Holocaust, Kovno, shlapobersky
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The Destruction of Keidan
By David Wolpe (Johannesburg) Originally published in the Yiddish journal, “Fun Letstn Khurbn” in Munich, 1948; and in English in 1950 by the Keidaner Sick Benefit and Benevolent Society of Johannesburg. By June 24, within days after Germany launched its … Continue reading