I'm glad I was able to do something to keep my family's story alive.
Thursday, October 10, 2013
THE HOLOCAUST FORGOTTEN?
I was shocked when I saw this video about the unbelievable lack of knowledge our school graduates have about the Holocaust. The generation that lived it is fast disappearing and apparently the history isn't being taught. You must see this
I'm glad I was able to do something to keep my family's story alive.
I'm glad I was able to do something to keep my family's story alive.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
SEPTEMBER
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
May 6, 2012 JGSCV
From Venturing Into Our Past, June 2012 Issue
(The newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County)
"...Sara Applebaum talked of her four-day visit to Poland. Her father was born in Warsaw and the family lived in nearby towns. She started her part of the program by reminding the audience of how her family escaped from Poland and went to Siberia and then Kyrgyztan, where she was born, and lived briefly in Poland after World War II-then Belgium and finally immigrated to the U.S.
On her trip to Warsaw, they found the house where her family lived before the war in 1939. It is now an apartment house .
In visiting where her mother's family came from, Lodz, they found the house her great grandfather lived in until 1892. ...The current occupant refused them entry.
She noted the importance of going to Auschwitz to ...bear witness...that we did not all perish.
Sara Talked to JGSCV previously about her life story when she talked about her book Lost and Found, A Family Memoir, and her second book, a novel ... Pomorska Street.
From Venturing Into Our Past, June 2012 Issue
(The newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County)
"...Sara Applebaum talked of her four-day visit to Poland. Her father was born in Warsaw and the family lived in nearby towns. She started her part of the program by reminding the audience of how her family escaped from Poland and went to Siberia and then Kyrgyztan, where she was born, and lived briefly in Poland after World War II-then Belgium and finally immigrated to the U.S.
On her trip to Warsaw, they found the house where her family lived before the war in 1939. It is now an apartment house .
In visiting where her mother's family came from, Lodz, they found the house her great grandfather lived in until 1892. ...The current occupant refused them entry.
80 Pomorska Street and its rose garden
Piotrkow Cemetery
Auschwitz
She noted the importance of going to Auschwitz to ...bear witness...that we did not all perish.
Sara Talked to JGSCV previously about her life story when she talked about her book Lost and Found, A Family Memoir, and her second book, a novel ... Pomorska Street.
Sunday, April 29, 2012
A You tube must see: MADEMOISELLE-KEREN HADAR-English
For those of you who have read and enjoyed POMORSKA STREET, you know there is an important theme in it of honoring the Virtuous Among the Nations and an important character named Lisette. This You Tube video is a touching tribute to one such true case. It brought tears to my eyes.
Take a look at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR6PC74--Is&feature=youtu.be
Then let me know what you think.
For those of you who have read and enjoyed POMORSKA STREET, you know there is an important theme in it of honoring the Virtuous Among the Nations and an important character named Lisette. This You Tube video is a touching tribute to one such true case. It brought tears to my eyes.
Take a look at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR6PC74--Is&feature=youtu.be
Then let me know what you think.
Friday, April 20, 2012
April 17, 2012
For those of you who attended the event at the Camarillo Library on Tuesday night, thank you. I thought that Kate Sexton did a terrific job as moderator....and isn't that library beautiful!
Yeah
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Friday, March 9, 2012
LDS church response-Jewish Journal
I was pleased to see a Letter to the Editor from the Jewish Relations Committee Southern California Public Affairs Council, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the March 9-15 Jewish Journal from which I quote as follows:
"...the LDS Church agrees that names of Jewish Holocaust victims should not be submitted for temple ordinances except by their direct descendants who have joined the church(a small group, to be sure). Just last Sunday, a letter signed by the top three leaders of the church was read to every Mormon congregation in the world. It reminded members of the policy on Holocaust name submissions, and listed possible sanctions that could be imposed on violators of the policy. There has never been more than a minyan of Mormons worldwide who choose to violate this rule: 99,999999 percent of the 14 million Mormons living in 167 countries across the world honor the memory of Jewish Holocaust victims in the way that our Jewish friends have asked of us..."
"...the LDS Church agrees that names of Jewish Holocaust victims should not be submitted for temple ordinances except by their direct descendants who have joined the church(a small group, to be sure). Just last Sunday, a letter signed by the top three leaders of the church was read to every Mormon congregation in the world. It reminded members of the policy on Holocaust name submissions, and listed possible sanctions that could be imposed on violators of the policy. There has never been more than a minyan of Mormons worldwide who choose to violate this rule: 99,999999 percent of the 14 million Mormons living in 167 countries across the world honor the memory of Jewish Holocaust victims in the way that our Jewish friends have asked of us..."
Thursday, February 23, 2012
POSTHUMOUS CONVERSIONS OF HOLOCAUST VICTIMS ATTEMPTED BY LDS CHURCH
Those of you interested in Genealogy may have seen some articles in the news lately, about the attempted posthumous conversion of well known Holocaust victims such as Anne Frank and parents of well known survivors such as Elie Wiesel.
This is a Mormon practice that troubles many. The LDS church officially promised to end the practice in 1995. In spite of that, there are still a few isolated cases of it happening against the church's stated policy.
As a genealogist who has benefited from the generous help of Mormon volunteers and from the work done by the LDS in rescuing and photocopying and digitizing many many records of Jews in Eastern Europe I find myself very conflicted.
There are millions of Mormons. I suppose the actions of a few extremists, in such a large group, can be understood as hard to prevent totally. According to what I've read, the Church approves it only if done by the descendants of the people being posthumously converted. These descendants then stand in as proxies in the conversion ceremony.
Anne Frank died as a teenager and never had descendants, so there can be no pretense of even following their own rules.
As a Holocaust survivor, and the family member of a number of Holocaust victims, I find the whole idea of "converting" people who were killed because of their religion repugnant. The concept of conversion by someone else's will also makes no sense to me at all.
I wish the LDS leadership would reconsider this practice, as some other past practices have been reconsidered in the past and then changed. I can't view it as anything less than disrespectful and offensive.
This is a Mormon practice that troubles many. The LDS church officially promised to end the practice in 1995. In spite of that, there are still a few isolated cases of it happening against the church's stated policy.
As a genealogist who has benefited from the generous help of Mormon volunteers and from the work done by the LDS in rescuing and photocopying and digitizing many many records of Jews in Eastern Europe I find myself very conflicted.
There are millions of Mormons. I suppose the actions of a few extremists, in such a large group, can be understood as hard to prevent totally. According to what I've read, the Church approves it only if done by the descendants of the people being posthumously converted. These descendants then stand in as proxies in the conversion ceremony.
Anne Frank died as a teenager and never had descendants, so there can be no pretense of even following their own rules.
As a Holocaust survivor, and the family member of a number of Holocaust victims, I find the whole idea of "converting" people who were killed because of their religion repugnant. The concept of conversion by someone else's will also makes no sense to me at all.
I wish the LDS leadership would reconsider this practice, as some other past practices have been reconsidered in the past and then changed. I can't view it as anything less than disrespectful and offensive.
Monday, February 6, 2012
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