Pages of Testimony
Last Name
ADLER
First Name
CHAJA
First Name
KHAIA
Father's First Name
YAAKOV
Father's First Name
LEIB
Mother's First Name
HANI
Mother's First Name
HENI
Sex
Female
Place of Birth
TARNOGROD,BILGORAJ,LUBLIN,POLAND
Citizenship
POLAND
Marital Status
MARRIED
Spouse's First Name
MEIR
Permanent residence
TARNOGROD,BILGORAJ,LUBLIN,POLAND
Profession
HOUSEWIFE
Place during the war
TARNOGROD,BILGORAJ,LUBLIN,POLAND
Place of Death
TARNOGROD,BILGORAJ,LUBLIN,POLAND
Date of Death
1942
Type of material
Page of Testimony
Submitter's Last Name
STRUZER
Submitter's First Name
GITEL
Submitter's First Name*
GIZELA
Relationship to victim
NEIGHBOUR
Registration date
01/01/1956
When my father was in Israel for the first time some years ago, he and my mother went to visit Yad Vashem. Upon entering his mother's name, he came across this listing, to his utmost surprise. A former neighbor had thought to list my grandmother in the Yad Vashem records and my father was overwhelmed and grateful. Unfortunately, when he tried to contact that neighbor who'd given my grandmother's name, he learned from her daugher that she'd already passed away. He had wanted to thank her....for remembering and for giving my grandmother some kind of final resting place.
5 comments:
We need more neighbors like that in the world.
I didn't know when I posted this today, but coincidentally, tonight I spoke to my mom and she mentioned that today is the Yahrzeit date for my paternal grandmother, specifically for the numerous people who were murdered in Tarnogrod on a particular day in November 1942. We don't actually know the details of my grandmother and her fifteen-year-old daughter's death but it is assumed they died that day and weren't sent to Belzec.
A communal Yahrzeit...
pages of remembrance are a powerful form. a columnist in London recently listed the names of all Canadian soldiers lost in the Afghan war after only a few words of intro. a half page of names. timely and not easily forgotten.
your grandmother's neighbour knew perhaps the power of the pen.
gord h. @ It Strikes
via written inc.
I'm definitely with Gord: the power of the pen is immense. Your sharing this here is yet another step toward ensuring these memories remain indelible.
Those who would use hatred as a tool underestimate the power of the human spirit. It was everpresent in that neighbour's soul.
Wanted to thank you for your kind comment over on my blog earlier this week. Wonderful to meet you, too. I look forward to learning more from someone who's very clearly a gutteh neshumeh.
hello my father's family I was told was from Bilgoraya, Poland...but I realize that it was Bilgoraj!
Touching blog! Blessings.
t.
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