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Events October – December 2004
10 October Screening of “Nazi Hunter,” a film by
Tuvia Friedman, in the lecture Hall of Yad Vashem’s International
Institute for Holocaust Research, attended by Chairman of the
Directorate Avner Shalev, Academic Advisor Professor Israel Gutman,
Director General of the Center of Organizations of Holocaust
Survivors in Israel Shai Csillag, Tuvia Friedman, researchers and
educators.
11 October Annual lecture of the John Najmann Chair
for Holocaust Studies by Leonid Rein (Haifa University), in
the presence of Head of the International Institute for Holocaust
Research and Incumbent of the Chair Professor David Bankier, Chief
Historian of Yad Vashem Professor Dan Michman, and representatives
of the Najmann family Herbert and Martha Najmann.
14 October Ceremony honoring Righteous Among the
Nations – the late Alfons and Aurelia Gawlak from Poland, who
saved Ola Schary (nee Rotzach). The certificate and medal were
presented to their daughter Ewa-Maria Bielaczyk-Gawlak, in the
presence of the daughter of the survivor Helen Schary Motro, and
family.
14 October Memorial ceremony and assembly for the
Jews of Italy and gathering marking the publication of Shanim Shel Za’am Vetikva (Years of Rage
and Hope) 1938-1949 by Israel Da Benedetti (Yad Vashem, Moreshet
and Yad Ya’ari publications); Mishpachat Ravana (The Ravana
Family) 1943-1945 by Paulo Ravana (Association of Italian
Immigrants Publications); and Lachzor Lesham (Returning
There) by Chana Weiss and Ehud Zin (Zin Publications), in
cooperation with the Association of Italian Immigrants and the
Italian Museum, and with the participation of the Ambassador of
Italy H.E. Mr. Giulio Terzi and
hundreds of Italian immigrants.
20
October “Humanity and
Devotion”—study day
marking the publication of the Encyclopedia of the
Righteous Among the Nations – Poland, and the activities of Righteous Among the Nations Jan Karski, in the
presence of Righteous Among the Nations and Chairman of the
Auschwitz Council Professor Wladyslaw Bartoszewski. At the opening
of the study day, Avner Shalev presented a copy of the
Encyclopedia to Ambassador of Poland H.E. Mr. Jan Piekarski.
25 October Memorial ceremony for the Lithuanian,
Latvian and Estonian Jews murdered in the Holocaust, with the
participation of the Chairman of the Association of Lithuanian
Immigrants in Israel Joseph Melamed, the Chairman of the
Association in Jerusalem David Hait, and hundreds of Baltic
immigrants.
2 November General meeting and annual convention of
Alumim Association— children who lived under assumed
identities in France during WWII—with the participation of the
Chairman of the Association Dr. Israel Lichtenstein, and its
members.
23 November Ceremony honoring Righteous Among the
Nations the late Aniela Zawadzka
who saved Saul Merin, his sister Dina Farber and their
cousin Wolf Szwajcer , and the late Pelagia Jasinska
who saved Hendel and Margolisa Kanarek (now Margalit Zoltek). The
certificates and medals of honor were presented to the children of
the Righteous, Felicja Szwajcer and Andrzej Jasinski, in the
presence of the survivors and their families.
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