4 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday. March 19. 1981_
Immediate registration uiged for World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
JWB Staff
Members of the Vancouver Jewish community considering attendance at ihe forthcoming World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Israel this June are being urged to complete their registration as soon as possible.
Dr. Rob Krell, chairman of the Canadian Jewish Congress' Holocaust committee, told The Bulletin last week that those planning to attend the June 14-18 program should obtain registration forms locally for immediate forwarding to the central New York coordinating office.
Dr. Krell may .be contacted at home, 261-4081; at his office, 228-7299; or forms are available from CJC, 261-8101.
In relating local plans for participation in the global conclave he stated:
"Vancouver Jews who experienced the hbrros of the Hitler era feel it is their obligation as survivors to attend the World Gathering. They wish both to impress upon the world their determination to counter recent statements such as 'the Holocaust never happened," and to prepare their sons and daughters to take over the mission of bearing witness."
The program is sponsored by survivors associations throughout the world and leading Israeli,
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Though some 20 Vancouverites, survivors and children of surviyors, have indicated to date their anticipated attendan^ce. Dr. Kreil believes that double that number from B.C. will probably be present amongst the thousands of worldwide participants.
Among those already indicating they will attend are Dr. and Mrs. Krell and their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Krell, and Vera Slyomo-vics, a survivor of Auschwitz whose son IS presently a professor at Hebrew University and whose daughter teaches at University of Cairo.
In noting that both parents and their children will attend. Dr. Kr^ll told JWB: "It is self-evident that survivors who were in their teens and twenties during the war, are now in their 60s and 70s. The task of remembering the Holocaust will fall to the next generation.^ .. A special full-day program is being readied for the Second Generation, the sons and daughters of survivors. One of the principle purposes of the World Gathering is to bring together the Second Generation to affirm Jewish continuity and survival. '
Other aims of this major event are: to emphasize the significance and legacy of the Holocaust; to serve notice to the entire world that the Holocaust must never be forgotten
. or repeated; and to bear personal . witness to the Holocaust experience.
Dr. Krell pointed out that an outstanding schedule of events has been planned by the three honorary chairmen: iStefan Grayek of Israel: Simone.Veil of France, president of the European Parliament; and noted Holocaust historian and writer, Elie Wiesel, from the U.S. . , •
The program includes: a memorial service and address .by the President of Israel''at Yad Vashem;, discussion of current anti-Semitism in Europe and the Americas; a symbolic light-and-sound show at Massada; an address by IsraeFs. Primes Minister in front of the Knesset; a torchlight march through the streets of Jerusalem to the Western Wall where a Survivors' Testament and Legacy will be transmitted to the next generation.
Each survivor is being asked to bring a rock to Israel for placement in the Survivors Memorial Wall at Yad Vashem. Additionally, participants are expected to make a 30 or 60-minute audio cassette recording of their personal experiences during the Holocaust for deposit in the permanent archives of Yad Vashem.
Local travel arrangements are being handled by Betty-Jane Israels of Universal Travel, 669-8747, who has blocked off some 60 rooms at major Jerusalem hotels for Vancouver participants. These are being held until March 31 only, it was emphasized.
Dr. Krell stressed to JWB that though there have been assemblies of viarious survival groups, this is the **first time, and sadly enough probably the only time, that there will be a mass gathering of survivors from throughout the world in Israel."
Annual prize for Holocaust works
TEL AVIV — An Israeli family which has requested anonymity, has established an annual prize for the best literary work on the Holocaust and Israel's revival for which authors of any faith or nationality will be eligible, it was announced here by the board of trustees of the Yad Vashem Memorial Foundation. An inter-denominational board of trustees has been appointed to administer the $7,000 award which has been named the Katzetnik Prize.
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gives alms to at least two poor people; c) One sends at, least two kinds of food to at least one friend; d) One has a festive meal for the family.
In addition, the passage called y4l < Hanissim, which thanks G-d for the. n:^iracle, is said inthe prayers and in the grace after meals. Unfortunately, none of the four special laws can be observed on Shabbat.
The first three are forbidden because one cannot carry, while the last is not possible for various other religious reasons. The result is that on Adar IS, which is supposed to be Purim in Jerusalem, all we will do will be to recite AI Hanissim at the right times. The other four laws have to be moved.
The laws are not, however, ail moved to the same day; two of them are advanced and two are postponed.
THUS, ON FRIDAY, we read the Megilla (because one is never permitted to read it later than Adar 15),
and, as is so typical of Judaism, the law regarding the alms to the poor is also advanced. If there is a problem with the date, why should they suffer? More than that, though, the rabbis instituted giving alms earlier in order to ensure that the poor have enough money to buy their Sabbath needs. ' •
That leaves us with two other-laws — sending gifts .to one's friends (Mishloach Manot) and the festive meal(SeMda).
Here the rabbis saw no reason, to rush things, so they very simply moved tfiem both to Sunday — a day where one does not have to worry about getting everything ready for Shabbat.
And the end result of all of this is that Jerusalem this year will celebrate the Purim Meshuiash or "triple Purim."
And there is a moral to this tale: if you, too, wanted to experience three days of Purim, then you would have had to rush to Jerusalem this year.
Your next chance will not be until 1994 ...
BY RABBI MEIR GOTTESMAN
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PARSHATTZAF SHUSHAN PURIM
Yadav t'veenah ... His own hands shall bring the offerings of the L-rd ...
The Torah is beautiful because it's down to earth. It recognizes that people are just people.
We're just flesh and blood, and yet we have to be kedoshim; sanctified.
Consider ... in the days of the Holy Temple, a Jew would offer a korban ola, a burnt offering that was completely consumed by the flames of the altar.
G-d commanded,"... it should be a burnt offering, on the fire of the altar all night. .. " The offering, G-d insisted, should buriiall night. But between you and me — what's the difference when the offering was burned? Why make such a fuss about the night?
But it teaches ... the burnt offering was brought to atone for a Jew's lustful thoughts. It was a fiery offering to make up for fiery desires. And when does a person fall into contemplating sensual desires? When he's busy davening? When he's running around trying to make enough money to meet the mortgage? No. At night, alone, when no one's watching ...
G-d commanded the offering burn at night, to atone for a Jew's unbridled thoughts of the night. (Toldot Yitzchak)
We spend nearly a third of our life sleeping dreaming. Scientists believe that a normal person dreams five times a night oh the average, his mind rising and falling like a roller-coaster, deep deep in sleep, followed by awareness and dreaming. <
Our niinds are never completely asleep. We reweave the inner fabric of our lives, try to bring order but of chaos. Sleep and dreams are also a gift of G-d, and we must approach them with holiness.
Many people are not aware that a Jew should recite a blessing over sleep, called Hamapil.
No Jew ever has to take a sleeping pill. No one should ever go to.sleep worried. G-d protects us day and night.
May we have only pleasant dreams. Shabbat Shalom.
Harilship funiis available for shelter organization^
NEW YORK - The Conference on Jewish 'Material Claims Against Germany announced that organizations which provide shelter to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution may apply for grants from a Hardship Fund established with German federal government appropriations.
According to the guidelines issued by the German government, "Up to five percent of tfie available funds can also be used as su)>ventions for the maintenance of institutions which provide shelter to the persecutees" on the basis of the Federal Indemnification Law.
In 1981, the Claims Conference will have at its disposal for allocations the sum of 2.S million DM, which is approximately U.S. $1.2 million, according to a Conference spokesman. He said that interested organizations may file applications with the Conference by April 30. Applications should be address^ ed in 10 copies to:
Conference on Jewish Material Tlaims Against Germany. Inc. IS East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010.
Artist honored
AMSTERDAM — The memory of Charlotte Salomon, a German-Jewish 'artist who died .at Auschwitz while still in her twenties, is being hon9red in Holland with an exhibition of her water colors, painted when she lived in the south of France between 1940-1942, shortly before her deportation.
The exhibit was opened at the Jewish Historical Museum here recently. At the same time, a book was published containing reproductions of nearly 800 of her paintings and a West German film on her life premiered in Amsterdam.
The film was produced by Franz Weiss from a script by Dutch Jewish writer, Judith Herzberg. ' JTA.
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Avital fears that the camp jail sentence is a prelude to Sharansky's transfer back to Chistopol jail, • where political prisoners are kept.
Meridelevitch recalled that he and Hillel Butman, who Had been freed in April, 1979, had been confined to a prison cell near Sharansky's for nearly two years.
They met-face to face only once, when their jailers inadvertently let them out together for exercise, but prevented them from speaking to each other.
However, they managed to keep in contact by speaking through the sewage pipes of their cells.
They spoke in Hebrew, Mendele-vitch said, adding that Sharansky had told him he wanted to be known
by the Hebrew name of Natan and no longer as Anatoly.
The two men risked punishment by this means of communication, and Sharansky was caught on a number of occasions.
The time that Sharansky learned that his brother had died was particularly harrowing.
After several attempts. Mendele-vitch, while exercising in the yard, succeeded in pushing throiigh the grid of Sharansky's ceil, a copy of the Kaddish which he had written for him. "It was the little I coiild do to help him in his pain,** Mendelevitch said.
He also indicated that he feared that his release had been only a "smokescreen for action against Mr. Sharansky and other Prisoners of Zion."