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Hebrew Classes in Częstochowa (March 2010)
Over two weeks during March, several of
our Częstochowa TSKŹ Landsleit
received Hebrew lessons thanks to a visit there by
Ania Segal from Haifa.
The group, from varying walks of daily life, also learned more about Jewish
history, culture and traditions.
The hope is that, with the base given to them by Ania Segal, her pupils will
continue their studies both collectively and individually.
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Israeli Landleit Hold Memorial Service in Tel Aviv (29th October 2009)
- submitted by Alon & Jacky Goldman
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau (pictured left), Chairman of Yad
Vashem, was the guest speaker at the annual Memorial Ceremony held by the
Association of Częstochowa District Jews in Israel,
in Tel Aviv, on October 29, 2009.
Rabbi Lau, who is also Chief Rabbi of Tel-Aviv,spoke of his experience in the Hasag-Pelcery
slave-labour camp in Częstochowa and in the Buchenwald concentration camps He called upon
the young generation to make Aliyah and to commemorate the Shoah in Israel.
In his address, Association Chairman, Arye Edelist, also
called for the perpetuation of the memory of the Shoah victims by the younger
generations. He also spoke, at length, about activities held during the
Third Reunion held in Częstochowa between 18th-20th
October 2009, organised by the World Society of Częstochowa Jews
and Their Descendants.
He also paid particular tribute to World Society President, Sigmund
Rolat who, through his financial commitment and personal involvement, had made all
these events possible.
Arye Edelist also expressed his gratitude to the City President of
Częstochowa, Dr Tadeusz Wrona, for the warm we had all received and for the
excellent support and assistance with organising the many events held during the Reunion.
We look forward to many years' cooperation into the future.
This wonderful memorial gathering also included an artistic program and community singing.
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Israeli Landleit Meet in Ramat Gan (31st May 2009)
- submitted by Alon Goldman
More than 100 Landsleit, first, second and third generation of the
Association of Częstochowa Jews and
their Descendants.
The meeting took place in the Association's new home in Ramat Gan.
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Photographs courtesy Alon Goldman (Second Generation)
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One of Our Landsleit Traces Her Roots (July 2008)
- submitted by Sarah Krakauer Kohn
"My family and I took one of those once-in-a-blue moon trips this summer to Israel
(two weeks) and Poland (one week). In return for working every Christmas for the last I-don't-
even-know-how-many years, I got a big chunk of time off.
" While in Częstochowa, the City Museum Curator was kind enough to take us into the Jewish
Cemetery where we were lucky to find the graves of my great-great-grandmother Aurelia/Rivka
Moszkowitz Weinberg and great-great grandfather Jozef Weinberg - amidst all the ticks and stinging
nettles. The graves were intact, if a little green (from acid rain from the nearby steel factory)."
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Me standing outside one
my family's
ex-factories on ul Wilsona
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Our guide, Wiesław Paszkowski, from
the Częstochowa City Museum
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"The Museum Curator also took us my grandfather Jakob Krakauer's former home at ul.Garibaldiego 15,
and the building of many Weinberg/Krakauer cousins next door at ul.Garibaldiego 17. We were also
informed that my Weinberg ancestors owned three factories on ul.Wilsona, just around the corner."
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my daughter, Miriam Shifra Kohn, making a rubbing of her great-great-great
grandmother Aurelia/Rivka Moszkowitz Weinberg's gravestone
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Our guide, Wiesław Paszkowski, from
the Częstochowa City Museum
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We saw the site of the former Reform Synagogue, where my ancestors worshipped, and where my
great-grandfather, Jozef Krakauer, used his copy of that first Polish Reform siddur signed by
Daniel Neufeld (we still have it). Jozef and Laja Rosa Weinberg Krakauer, and their family and
Polish nanny, all emigrated to the USA in 1904 and 1905."
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Area where the three former
Weinberg factories once stood
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The walkway to Jasna Góra with its 'etz hayim'
as well as the two 'arielim' (both from the Hebrew bible).
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"Częstochowa seemed so sad to us. The state of the cemetery - so many ghosts, so many deaths.
I cried as I placed stones on my Weinberg ancestors' graves and said a 'shechehiyanu' every morning
in the Patria Hotel breakfast room for the gift of being alive to visit and make that connection."
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