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Tag Archives: Hashomer Hatzair
A Family Dispersed
By Sonja Shacknofsky-Setting My father, Joseph Setting, was born in Keidan in 1910. He arrived in Cape Town on Christmas morning, 1927, then went on to Johannesburg, where he found work with relatives. My grandparents likely sent him to South … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Interwar, South Africa, Zionism
Tagged Diaspora, Families, Hashomer Hatzair, Israel, Kibbutz
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A Flag Comes Home After 16 Years
Originally published in “Israel Horizons” magazine, Dec. 1956. Miracles can happen even to a flag. Recently, the flag of Gdud Maapilim, of Ken Keidani of Hashomer Hatzair, was brought to Israel, the only flag of the Lithuanian youth movement to … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Personalities, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book, Zionism
Tagged Beit Zera, Hashomer Hatzair, Israel, Kibbutz, Personalities, Youth movements
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Young Refugees in Keidan
By Moshe Domb (Kfar Menachem, Israel) After many hardships and torments, we gathered in Keidan, in Lithuania, to continue the training as Kibbutz Manof that began in Włocławek [Poland]. We were all graduates of the Hashomer Hatzair movement, preparing for … Continue reading
Posted in Emigrants, Holocaust, Israel, Memoir, Personalities, Soviet Union, Zionism
Tagged Hashomer Hatzair, Holocaust, Lithuania, Red Army, Soviet Union, Youth movements
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A Series of Narrow Escapes
By Eliyahu Koenig I belonged to the Hashomer Hatzair kibbutz (community) in Włocławek (Poland), which included mainly those comrades from the cells in Warsaw, Lodz and Kalisz. When the war broke out and the Germans began their swift campaign of … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Soviet Union, Yizkor Book
Tagged Hashomer Hatzair, Holocaust, Lithuania, Soviet Union, USSR
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A Town’s Special Character
By Daniel Ben-Nachum (Prochovnik). (Beit Zera, Israel) Based on their frequent descriptions in our literature, the towns and villages of Lithuania were apparently alike in appearance and character. The market square in the center, filled with noisy trade and bargaining, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Memoir, Yizkor Book, Zionism
Tagged Beit Zera, Hashomer Hatzair, History, Memoir
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Hashomer Hatzair in Keidan
By Abba Jonah Goldin (Golani), Kibbutz Beit Zera In 1923, I joined the Scouts movement that had been founded by Lord Baden-Powell, and whose activity in those days centered around games and summer camps. The Scouts attracted most of the … Continue reading
Posted in Interwar, Israel, Memoir, Yizkor Book, Zionism
Tagged Education, Hashomer Hatzair, Sport, Youth movements, Zionism
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Sport in Keidan
By Chaim Landsberg In the early 1920’s, a branch of “Maccabi” was set up in Keidan. The impetus for this organization came from a committee of Zionist activists from various political parties, such as the General Zionists, Poalei Zion, Socialist … Continue reading
Posted in History, Interwar, Israel, Memoir, Zionism
Tagged Beitar, Education, Hashomer Hatzair, Landsberg, Sport, yiddish, youth, Youth movements, Zionism
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