Surviving fairiiiJes^ to unveil 73^names at SttoaifJVIemoriai
Toronto Hdldcaust Centre founder keynotes Yom HaShoah
DEDICATION of Holocaust lyiemorial.at Scfiara Tzedeck cemetery, 1987.
„ Solemn proceedings /or felder, Vladimir, Hopner, Yom HaShoah. April J I, . Eidel Dreishner. and Shirley begin at noon at Schara Tze> '.Cohn.
deck Cemetery, 2346 Marine drive in New Westminster. The Vancouver Holocaust Centre Society is co-ordinating the memorial service and unveiling of names.
The unveiling, the third since the Holocaust Memorial was dedicated in 1987, will memorialize the names of 73 more relatives of Vancouver ,S»urvivors and others in the .pommunit)F whose family members, perislied in the Shoah. This\will bring the total number of names unveiled to near^ 1,200. - Unveiling names this year will be tlie families,of Joseph Gabor, Bella Nosjces, Karl
Tuchschneider, V Mlcha Menzcer, Diana Friedman, Reva Puterman, Isidore Tov-bis, Klara Forrai, Sofia Luto-vich, Regina Boxer, Rosa Brandt, Rozalia and Leopold Hollander, Frank Hbch-.
The names will be unveiled and a roll call will be read by the surviving families.
Survivors^ their families and friends attend the annual event. For information about transportation to the cemetery, call David Ehrlich, 327-8064. For further details call VHCS at 266-1180.
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~ The founder of the, Hplor^ > ca'ust Education and Memorial Centre in Torbntb wilf be keynote speaker at this year's Yom HaShoaJi ^ community observance a,nd,commemorative addrjcss. April 11,8 p.m. at Beth Israel synagogue.
Jfewjsh activist Gerda Frie-berg is immediate past national president of thit Holocaust Remembrance Committee of Canadian Jewish Congress.
Born in Upper Silesia (now part of South Western Poland), Frieberg* was 13' \yhen Germany annexed the. region in 1939.'Shortly thereafter, she was deported along with the rest of Silesia's Jewish community to ghettos in. Poland.
In 1942^ ^hc was among a group of young Jewish women, sent to Oberalt&tadt concentration camp in what is now-Czechoslovakia. Of her large family, only Frieberg, her mother and a sister surr vived the Nazi death camps.
Frieberg returned to Obe-raltstadt 43 years later as a tourist. Although there were apartment buildings where the barracks once stood^ she had no trouble recognizing the camp where sh& had, labored for three long years. Barbed wire still lay in the grass.
Villagers told Frieberg that after the war, they had reburied bodies of Jewish women that had been dumped
Passovf^r supplies lieaded for Cuba
Moess Chittim fundraising
TORONTO The Canadian and Mexican Jewish communities are joining for> ces to provide continuing Passover supplies to their'sister. Jewish community in Cuba.
The food.supplies include thousands of boxes of matzah, oil, meat and wine. The cost of the food — between $20,000 and $25,000 ~- will be covered by the Canadian Jewish Congress out of its annual
campaign.
Since the Castro revolur tion, which cut off relations between the United States and Cuba, the Canadian Jewish Congress has been supplying Cuba*s Jews with matzah and other Passover food. The procedure entailed loading the supplies onto a Soviet or Eastern European ship that stopped at a Canadian port.
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VHCS reaches out to high schools
Early response '.to the annual Symposium on the Holocaust held at UBC for grade 11 and 12 students and their teachers (May 8-9) indicates another year of oversubscriptions. In recent years it has been necessary to turn away as many as 800 students, organizers said.
The annual event, with assistance from the Vancouver . Holocaust Centre„ Society, is co-ordinated, by the CJC Standing Committee on
the ^Holocaust, co-chaired by Dr. Graham Forst and Dr. Robert Krell.
To deal with the overflow, the VHCS some years ago activated an outreach program to schools who^are not able to; reserve space at the Sympo-« slum and to deal with special requests. With the help of its Survivor/ Educators, the Society has made visits as far afield as Smithers and Vancouver Island. The Bulleiin was told that letters of thanks
SURVIVOII/EDUCATOR\Vera Slyomovica with Nvd history taachara at Yala Sacondary Sctiooi. Abl>ottford, duilns Nr racaht taaslon thara.
from the participating students reveal the depth of their new understanding of the Shoahandthe impact of these unique visits.
This spring has been busy for Survivors, with requests for personal visits from Handsworth . Secondary in North Vancouver, Yale Sec^ ondary in Abbotsford and schools in Comox and Cour-tenay.
On a recent rainy February day. Survivor Bronia Son-nenschein attended a presentation by grade 12 history students at Hand&worth« and in turn spoke of her Holocaust expeiiences to them. '
Vera Slyomovics, who has been a Survivoff Educator for 20 yearsi'^ppke-to a class in Abbbrsford, and :they have asked her to ceturn soon.
David Ehrlich -has been invited for the" third time to address two schools_pn Vancouver Island in April. On these visits he is hosted by members of the small Jewish^ community in the Comox -Courtenay area.
Each visit, for the Survivors, is difficult,. necessary and gratifying, VHCS said.
^ F;or further information on this program please call^ 261-1180.
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FRIEBERG
in unmarked graves by the ?Nazis. Marking the site is a monument with: a. Star of David and the inscription:''In ' this place 41 Jewish girls are laid to rest, victims of Nazism. Honor their memory.**' '
Frieberg has dedicated her jffe to thCi memory of Shoah victims. "The last thing they asked when they were led away was, 'don't forget us,' and that is what Pm doing," she said.
Since coming to Canada in ' 1953, she has served on numerous Holocaust remem^ brance committees, including the steering committee of the 1985 Canadian Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and the board of directors of the Canadian Friends of Yad Vashem.
As chairperson of the founding committee of Toronto's Holocaust Education and Memorial Centre, Frieberg was instrumental in obtaining a $50,000 contribution ffbm the German government to\ assist 'with installation of memorial tiles bearing 5,000 names of Holocaust victims who were relatives of
• Torontonians.^ Gei;many*s - deputy foreign ministerHiel-mut ^chafer - presented Jhe cheque to Frieberg,.in a' ceremony in September 1990.
For her efforts on Behatfbf the-Jewish, community,- Frieberg was recipient of several honors and awards. In 1968, she was named. Woman of the Year by State bf Israel Bonds and in 1990, was again honored by Bonds Women's division: She received the Toronto Jewish Congress Keter Shem Tov award in 1988 and the Woman of Valor award of UJA's Business and Professional Women in 1989.
This Survivor, who holds a pilot's license and often flies her own small plane, worksas an interior designer and consultant to a construction
Warmest Passover greetings to the Entire Jewish Corhmunity
John A. Fraser
Mlember of Parliament Vancouver South
and Speaker of the House of Comnwns
FEDERAL CONSTITUENCY VANCOUVER SOUTH
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MIKE HARCOURT
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Hon. Steplien Rogers M.L. A. Vancouver Soutli
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Attorney General
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