Yom Hashoah
Visit to Auschwitz by a group of Jews and Arabs with Father Emile Shufani
Righteous Gentiles
The painter Jules Cavailles and his family, Dr et Mrs Lapeyre , Miss Werner, Dr et Mrs Gourc, Mr
and Mrs Lafont, and Louise have opened their door and their hearts to my parents and my brothers
chased by the Nazis (Merci, Dory Goldberg-Cwikel)
The Wolloch Haggadah

from Haaretz 18/06/2007
65 years later, son finds Ukraine grave he dug by hand
By Amiram Barkat , Haaretz Correspondent
Ze'ev Orenstein recently succeeding in tracking down the grave he dug for his mother 65 years ago and laying a tombstone
there.
For most of his life, Orenstein, a taxi driver from Haifa, did not know where exactly his mother was buried. All he knew was
that during World War II, he had buried her body in a remote patch of forest in the Ukraine.
Last month, Ze'ev finally said a prayer on his mother's grave for the elevation of her soul. "All my life I've dreamt of this
moment, but I never imagined that I could ever fulfill it in a such a dignified manner," he told the group of Chabad Hasidic
Jews who attended the service, along with students from a nearby school and local residents.
Ze'ev Orenstein remembers the day he buried his mother near the small village of Pasynka, in Transnistria - a region
stretching along Moldova's border with the Ukraine. It was the winter of 1942, and he was 12. "I didn't know what to do.
Luckily, I was friends with a couple of boys from the village where we had stayed. We found some wooden planks and
carried her body to the woods. I didn't remember where exactly we buried her, only how hard it was to dig in the frozen soil.
It took us the whole day," he recalls.
Before the war, Ze'ev's parents and his four brothers resided in the city of Dorohoi in Botosani County, in the northeastern
tip of Romania. Shortly after the war broke out, Ze'ev's father was taken away for forced labor. He never returned.
His mother, Brana, and their children were deported in the winter of 1941, along with 150,000 Jews from the region for
"resettlement" in Transnistria in the southern Ukraine. Their deportation was ordered by Ion Antonescu, Romania's prime
minister, who had received autonomy over Transnistria from his Nazi allies.
Ze'ev and his four brothers contracted typhus, which became an epidemic, decimating the population of Jewish refugees in
the region. That winter, Ze'ev saw his brothers waste away until they died. He survived the illness and recovered, but frost
bite to his feet made it impossible for him to walk. His mother had to carry him on her back.
Eventually, the mother and child found shelter in the small village of Pasynka, where they survived for another year by
panhandling. But the traumatic experiences that Ze'ev's mother had gone through cost her the will to live, and she was
fading away as her health began to deteriorate.
Orenstein does not like to talk or think back on his mother's last days. "She would say: 'My children are dead and now I
have nothing to live for,'" he recounts.
A local family of farmers adopted Orenstein after the death of his mother. After the war ended, he returned to Dorohoi. He
was taken in by the American Joint Distribution Committee and put in one of the organization's orphanages.
In 1946, the 16-year-old Ze'ev was smuggled into Palestine onboard a ship of Jewish refugees. But his troubles were not
over. Ze'ev was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and hospitalized in Kiryat Motzkin for two years, until he recovered. He
eventually married and fathered a family.
Several weeks ago, Orenstein signed up for a organized trip to Transnistria, with the intention of finding his mother's grave.
He brought a granite tombstone along, written in Hebrew. An old lady from Pasynka showed him a spot where Jews were
buried.
"I was especially touched when I showed the schoolchildren were my mother was buried, and asked them to take care of the
grave," Orenstein said. Next year, he intends to visit the graveside with his family from Israel.
'With each passing day their numbers dwindle'
My grandmother, Cherna Berkowitz, was also among the dozens of thousands who were deported to Transnistria. Cherna
survived the Holocaust and kept a journal where she wrote about her experiences. In an entry from November 23, 1941, she
described the arrival of refugees from Dorohoi - the city from which the Romanian authorities had deported Ze'ev Orenstein
and his family:
"The deportations resumed. Women, elderly people and so many children in the freezing cold. With each passing day their
numbers dwindle as more of them die.
"Dorohoi, people say. We send the children to give the newcomers some warm tea. They return with horror stories. The men
were all at work when they deported the women and children. We have one woman with three small children, one of whom
is not yet weaned. All she has are rags and a few pennies in her pocket. The soldiers round up the arrivals and order them to
march on."
Memorial of the Jewish Fighter by Gershon Knispel
Ramot Remez, International

Yom HaShoa 2010
On April 8, 18:00, Screening of the Film Without destiny, Center for the Study of the Holocaust,
Neve Sheanan Religious Cultural Center, Haifa
On April 8, 19:00, At the occasion of Remembrance Day, Premiere of the Film by Bernard Balto ,
Children without shadow, in the presence of Professor Shaul Harel, Cinematheque, Haifa
On April 11 2010, from sunset, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust remembrance day
Haifa,
Beit Lochamei HaGhettaot
On April 11, 18:00, Memorial Ceremony, lighting candles, poems and texts, testimonies and
Exhibition, Community Center, Neve David, Haifa
On April 11, 18:00, Film Screening: Grey Region, Neve Sheanan Religious Cultural Center, Haifa
On April 11, 18:00, The Third Reich's propaganda, lecture by Dr. Nira Feldman, the "Institute for
Studies of Yad Vashem, Canadian Community Center, Technion
On April 11, 19:30 Ceremony of Yom HaShoah, Community Center, Neve Yosef
On April 11, 20:00, Yom HaShoa Ceremony by youth and Reali high school students,
auditorium, HaifaOn April 11, 20:00, Shneider and Shushart, by Yehoshua Sobol, Beit Yad
LeBanim, Haifa
On April 11, 20:00 As if from the ashes the rose bloomed, in the presence of Oded Dunitz and Rabbi
Yaakov Klein, evening of remembrance, Beit Nagler
On April 11, 20:00, Meeting for the community: reading Psalms, study, Kaddish, with Dr. Tsachi
Glikman and Rabbi Moshe Elmalem, Haroeh School, Haifa
On April 11, 20:00, From Saloniki to Auschwicz, The history of the community after the testimony
of Abraham Mestro, Yeshiva Yavne, Haifa
On April 12, Yom HaShoah
On April 12, 10:00-12:30, Every human being has a name: The public is invited to read names of
Holocaust victims, Cinematheque, Haifa
On April 12, 13:00 Ceremony of Remembrance, Churchill amphitheater, Technion
On April 12 , 17:00, The last postcard, by Sylvain Biglaisen, free entrance, Cinematheque, Haifa
On April 12, 19:45, Ceremony at Beit Lochamei HaGhettaot in presence of Mr Guidon Saar,
Minister of Education, of the Director of Beit Lohamei Haghettaot, Mr Rami Hochman, of the
spokeman of Kibbutz movement Mr Mouki Tsour, of the spokesman of Resistants and Partisans,
Mrs Havka Raban, « Yizkor ». lightning of flames, flowers, Justs among nations, testimonies and
films, artistic program by Shivouq Havayati - Shoshi Tchnovar. Please come befor 19:00. The
museum is open between 9:00 and 18:00 Tel : 04 995 80 17 - Charlène, auditorium, Beit Lochamei
Haghettaot
On April 12, 20:00, Life in the camps, discussion with Dr. Michal Aharoni: Coping with the
conditions, and Naama Shei, Jewish Women at Auschwicz Birkenau, Center for the Study of the
Holocaust, Neve Sheanan Religious Cultural Center, Haifa
On April 13, 18:00, Film screening: Auschwicz and the final solution (in 5 parts) free entrance
Religious Cultural Center, Neve Sheanan, Haifa
On April 13, 18:00, Film screening: Primo Levi, If this is a man, Religious Cultural Center, Neve
Sheanan, Haifa
On April 13, 19:00, Around the World in 80 minutes, Krieger Auditorium , Haifa
On April 13, 20:00, Culture Club, Pearls of Yiddish culture, lecture by Dr. Mordechai Yoshkowski,
singing and piano, Marina Yakobowicz , evening devoted to Yom HaShoah, the crations of the
Jewish people during the Holocaust, Yiddish songs and poetry in the ghettos and camps, during the
time of suffering and torture, Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art, Haifa
On April 13, 20:00 Journey to the crucified, written, adapted and staged by Jacques Kano, with the
Group Theatre in the backyard, Beit Yad LeBanim, Haifa
On April 13, 21:00, Projection of As seen from these eyes by Hilary Helstein preceded by a lecture bt
Michal Navot, Att of law, Negation of the Holocaust and antisemitism, the legislation in the world,
free entry, Cinematheque, Haifa
On April 14, 18:00, Hitler, the victory of evil, (I), Center for the Study of the Holocaust, free
entrance, Neve Sheanan Religious Cultural Center, Haifa
On April 14, 20:00, Hitler, the victory of evil, (II), Center for the Study of the Holocaust, free
entrance, Neve Sheanan Religious Cultural Center, Haifa
On 15 April, 18:00, Film screening: Pizza at Auschwitz, free entrance , Institute for the Study of the
Holocaust, Neve Sheanan Religious Cultural Center , Haifa

Original version of the status of Jews in France, corrected by Marechal Petain
(October 1940)
Yom HaShoa 2011
On April 28, 19:00, Mu Zika, Yad Vashem , Evening of texts written during the
Holocaust, that will be sung later by pupils in several schools, Beitenu, Haifa
On the evening of May 1, Yom HaShoah ve HaGevurah Holocaust
remembrance day
On May 1, 9: 00 and 11: 00. Mu Zika, Yad Vashem , texts written during the
Holocaust, made in music and sung by high school students –For pupils,
Beitenu, Haifa
On May 1, 17: 00, Film Screening : The Nuremberg Trials, Eibschitz Institute
for the Study of the Holocaust, 04-8325978, Fax 04-8226617, 04-8324727,
HaTichon 39, Haifa
On May 1, 17: 00, Ceremony by youth of Hanoar Haoved VeHaLomed, Kiryat
Haim
On May 1, 18: 00 Remembrance Ceremony with the participation of high school
students from Ironi Hei, Galicia Memorial, (junction of Shimshon and Moriah
streets), Haifa
On May 1, 18: 00 Remembrance Ceremony and Lecture Impressions of trip to
Poland, Beit Fanny Kaplan, Haifa
On May 1, 19:30, Ceremony of Remembrance of the Holocaust and Bravery,
Cultural Center. Nesher
On May 1, 19: 30, Yanosh Korczak’s Children, Community Center, Neve Yosef
On May 1, 19: 45 Ceremony of Remembrance, Day of the Holocaust and
Bravery, We have the strength to go on, by students of the Alliance High School,
excerpts of Playing for time by Fania Fenelon (Goldstein), in presence of Yona
Yahav, Mayor of Haifa and Great Rabbi of Haifa Shaa Yeshuv Hacohen,
Rappoport auditorium, Haifa
On May 1, 20:00, Ceremony of remembrance Theatre play : Tefilin, Kaddish in
the presence of Rabbi Klein and opening of the exhibit Zochrim, we remember,
photographs about the Holocaust, by Armand Berero, Beit Nagler, Kyriat Haim
On May 1, 20: 00, Ceremony with children from Habonim, Fichman schools
and Scouts Afik, Yavneh Yeshiva, Haifa
On May 1, 20: 00 Remembrance Ceremony and screening of Let the Memory be
love, Community Center, Kiryat Shmuel
On May 2, Yom HaShoah ve HaGevurah Holocaust remembrance day
On May 2, 10: 00,11:00, 12:30, Every person has a name, Remembering the
victims of Holocaust, in the presence of Yona Yahav, mayor of Haifa, City
Council Hall, Municipality of Haifa
On May 2, 10: 00, Ceremony with the participation of students of Deganyia
school, Beit Heine, Kiryat Haim
On May 2, 13:00, Remembrance ceremony, Yom HaShoa VeHagevura,
Chruchill auditorium, with Relly Robinson, survivor of the Warsaw ghetto,
Technion, Haifa
On May 2, 17: 00 Activities for children on the topic of Yanosh Korczak’s
children, Fanny Kaplan Community Center
On May 2, 17: 30 Where will aid come from?, with Fanny Rozler, Holocaust
survivor who tells her story accompanied by her grand-son Aharon Razel,
Eibschitz Institute for the Study of Holocaust, 04-8325978, Fax 04-8226617, 04-
8324727, HaTichon 39, Haifa
On May 2, afternoon, Official closure ceremony of the Holocaust and Heroism
Day of Remembrance, amphitheater, Kibboutz Lochamei HaGhettaot
On May 2, 20: 00, On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the trial of Adolph
Eichmann, Women in the Eichmann trial, by Dr. Sharon Geva, Legislative
topics of the Eichmann trial, by Judge Feinstein Haran, presentation by Judge
Yakobi Shvili , Judge Landau’s intern at the time of the trial, Eibschitz Institute
for the Study of Holocaust, 04-8325978, Fax 04-8226617, 04-8324727,
HaTichon 39, Haifa
On May 3, 17: 00, Film Screening The House on Garibaldi Street, Eibschitz
Institute for the Study of Holocaust, 04-8325978, Fax 04-8226617, 04-8324727,
HaTichon 39, Haifa
On May 3, 19: 00, Film Screening Specialist, Eibschitz Institute for the Study of
the Holocaust 04-8325978, Fax 04-8226617, 04-8324727, HaTichon 39, Haifa
On May 4, 18: 00, On the occasion of Yom HaShoa, ceremony of remembrance
attended by veterans and soldiers of the Navy, Community Center, Bat Galim,
Haifa
On May 4, 20: 00, On the occasion of Yom HaShoa, Theatre, monologue Why
did you not come before the war? adaptated and interpreted by Fabienne
Meiouhas, Beit Yad LeBanim, Haifa
On May 4, 20:00, Film Screening, Born in a concentration camp, with the
participation of Uri Hanoch, one of the seven children in the film, Eibschitz
Institute for the Study of Holocaust, 04-8325978, Fax 04-8226617, 04-8324727,
HaTichon 39, Haifa

Yom HaShoah ve HaGevurah
Zochrim
We have strength to go on
Kol Nidrei Bergen Belsen
Beit Lochamei HaGhettaot Museum