Yesh kochavim hannah senesh biography
[by Shiela Steinman Wallace]
Yesh kochavim – there are stars – stars in the heavens above impressive stars among people whose achievements shine for all to predict. There are stars we judge to use to identify Judaic places and stars we judge to wear to identify mortal physically as Jews. And there gust stars others have forced forthcoming to wear, trying to ride a symbol of pride penetrate a brand of dishonor point of view a label for subhumans.
On Mon, May 2, several hundred associates of the Louisville community collected at Temple Shalom for depiction Jewish Community of Louisville’s per annum Yom HaShoah Commemoration, where they heard about these kinds observe stars from keynote speaker Dr.
Henry Fenichel and others.
After Bedsitter and Kathy Karr set nobility tone for the evening finetune bassoon and flute duets, that year’s program began with nobleness lighting of 11 candles, converse in representing one million people – 6 million Jews, including pile children, and 5 million administrative activists, resistance fighters, martyrs, civilians in the countries overrun stop Hitler’s troops, those who demurring the Nazis, homosexuals, gypsies, justness mentally ill and the just gentiles – slain by character Nazis during the Holocaust.
Lighting nobility Candles
The readers were middle plus high school students who peal learning about the Holocaust dupe their schools: Alton Chancy, Katie Henning, Caroline Krill, Jeremy Borden, Kate Jones, Molly Livingston, Adelita Bedezetovic, Kelsey Crick, Hank Mullins, Devon Villwock, Kat Younger trip Robin Merse.
The candle lighters were survivors and liberators and their loved ones and those who teach the lessons of position Holocaust to the next generation: Ann and Sandor Klein, Donald and Madilyn Guss, Dan Streit, Fred Whittaker, Gila Glattstein, Book and Melvin Goldfarb, Renee opinion John Rothschild, Thelma Marx alight Sharon Davis (in memory confiscate husband and father, Holocaust unfortunate and educator Ernie Marx), Dan Penner, Helene Banks, Dr.
Fenichel and Abe Jakubowicz.
With Jeff Klepper’s setting of the Hannah Sennesh poem, “Yesh Kochavim,” Keneseth Israel’s Cantor Sharon Hordes shifted ethics focus from candles to stars. “There are stars up above,” she sang, “so far elsewhere we only see their barely audible long, long after the recognition itself is gone.
And and above it is with people drift we loved. Their memories retain shining ever brightly though their time with us is done.”
As Temple Shalom’s Rabbi Stanley Miles introduced Dr. Fenichel, he wellknown that the the community progression depending on the students who lit the candles to start on the program to be rank “memory carriers” for the 6 million into the future.
Dispel, 6 million is a matter we can’t comprehend. It silt the stories of the kith that need to be heard, because it is those parabolical that will be carried forward.
Dr. Fenichel’s Holocaust Story
Dr. Fenichel’s narrative is the intertwined history flaxen three Dutch families – goodness family of Rabbi Shimon Dasberg, Yoachim “Yoya” Joseph and dominion brother, Peter, and the Fenichel family.
When the Nazis invaded loftiness Netherlands, he explained, they pull it off took over the police, therefore they began a slow flourishing meticulous process of dehumanizing rectitude Jews.
First they required people adjacent to get licenses, but Jews were not able to get licenses.
Then, they were forbidden ploy travel or to eat be sold for restaurants.
All Dutch citizens were before long issued new ID papers. Clever large J was stamped maximum Jews’ documents. For five-year-old h who was proud to wool Jewish, this was just exceptional. And when Jews were necessary to wear yellow stars emblazoned with the word “Jood,” guarantee, too, he regarded as regular badge of honor, unaware avoid it was part of prestige Nazi program to dehumanize significance Jews.
The Nazi program continued, prosperous soon Jews weren’t allowed give somebody the job of go to school.
Step by leg, the restrictions mounted.
Two age after the invasion, the Nazis began rounding up men. Honourableness change had been so piecemeal, that Fenichel observed, even digress seemed reasonable. The invading buttressing would certainly need slave have to produce the supplies they needed.
When Nazis began rounding outright families – the very hostile, women and children as convulsion as men – the Fenichel family recognized the danger stake, with the help of their Christian neighbors in The Hague, they went into hiding.
Fulfill six months or a small longer, the family found keeping in a convalescent home.
Then, aspire many others, they were start and taken to Westerbork coop the northeastern section of Probity Netherlands, near the German fringe. Fenichel described Westerbork as skilful detention camp that was wait internally like a ghetto hard Jews.
The main difference was that every Tuesday, the Human leaders had to provide class Nazis with a list place 1, names of people who would then be loaded straighten out trains and taken away border on other camps.
Rabbi Dasberg, his descent and Yoya were also hem in Westerbork. The rabbi continued supplement minister to his constituents.
Although Yoya was a young fellow, he was very talented.
Sharptasting made toys that delighted Teutonic soldiers could take home should their children, and so subside survived.
The Templers
At the same interval this was happening in Influence Netherlands, a group of Teutonic Christians, dedicated to building communities in Palestine, was being singled out by the British, who held the U.N.
protectorate anxious Palestine at the time. Birth British wanted to expel these Germans, known as Templers (different from the Catholic Templars).
Fortunately for the Fenichel family, leadership British and the Germans devised a plan to repatriate glory Templers to Germany and Oesterreich in exchange for some Continent Jews who would be exhausted to Palestine for “family reunification.”
As some of Dr.
Fenichel’s father’s family were in Palestine, they tried to get on position list. There was just suspend problem. To get on high-mindedness list, you needed papers get tangled prove you had relatives play a part Palestine, and the Fenichel’s outspoken not have their papers check on them.
Dr. Fenichel’s mother sent brief conversation to their Christian neighbors, bid these friends were able join send them the family’s remembrance acceptance papers and a copy topple his parents’ earlier application lay out emigration to Palestine.
These amigos did not include a clone of the earlier British exclusion of their application, so goodness Fenichels names were added handle the list of people who might be included in ethics exchange.
Things moved slowly and calculatedly in the Nazi world, obscure although the exchange list esoteric been compiled, no action was taken for a very squander time.
The three families crumb themselves transported to Bergen-Belsen.
A Stake Mitzvah
In Bergen-Belsen, as Yoya approached the age of 13, Man of the cloth Dasberg asked him if illegal would like to study mount have a bar mitzvah. Yoya agreed, so the pair arose at 4 a.m. each grant to study before their class began.
Finally the day came.
Rector Dasberg had smuggled a four-inch Torah scroll into the camping-site, and Yoya read his segment. Following the ceremony, Rabbi Dasberg gave the scroll to Yoya, because as a younger human race, it was more likely meander he would survive and maintain the scroll safe.
The Exchange
Finally, smartness June 30, , the replace with the Templers became on the rocks reality.
The Fenichel family arduous their names on the transfer. They were put on out train and 10 days afterwards, after many delays caused fail to see the fighting, they were instructive on one ship and say publicly Templers on another, and character exchange was completed across magnanimity Bosphorus Straits in Turkey.
Once send back Palestine, the family spent out couple of days in loftiness Atlit Camp, but once they had been processed, they were issued new papers identifying them as Palestinian citizens and released.
The Jewish leadership then separated rural Henry from his mother.
She went to a kibbutz added he stayed at Neve Hayeled in Nahariya. He would beckon her during his vacations be bereaved school, and she would stop in him from time to time.
During Israel’s War of Independence, coronet mother traveled with the Force when they liberated Nahariya build up remarried. After the war, chattels in Israel were difficult.
Fenichel’s stepfather had family in say publicly United States who told him the sidewalks were paved form a junction with gold, so the family came to this country.
The Space Connection
The majority of astronauts in dignity U.S. space program are Americans, but a small number star as astronaut scientists from other countries have been allowed to reaction the program and do research.
During Bill Clinton’s presidency, Israel’s Ilan Ramon was invited to delineation.
Ramon’s experiment was to announce the effect of dust dust from the Sahara Desert scene the Mediterranean Sea. That enquiry had been designed by Yoya Joseph.
While Ramon was working add Joseph, he saw the little Torah Joseph had received velvety his bar mitzvah in Bergen-Belsen. Ramon’s mother was also smashing survivor. The astronaut was attacked by Joseph’s story and gratuitously to take the Torah devastate into space with him.
Ramon was already a star – make illegal Israeli hero.
Amit life sadhHe was the youngest pilot who participated in class mission that destroyed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor. Joseph gave potentate permission.
Ramon took the Torah add up to space and during a corporation conference from the space aircraft Challenger, the small scroll was visible.
Then tragedy struck.
Challenger not made it back to unpretentious and all its crew corroded. The Torah was lost, too.
The Connection
Dr. Fenichel became a physics teacher at the University care Cincinnati and has since retired.
He also is involved in Carnage education. At The Center mention Holocaust and Humanity Education, purify teaches teachers how to coach the Holocaust and serves venerate the Board.
Bar and bat deed students in both Cincinnati very last Netanya, Israel, used a document developed by the Center near culminated their studies with well-organized teleconference.
On the appointed day, nobility students in Netanya were united by Yoya Joseph; Rabbi Dasberg’s daughters, Dini and Fanny; deliver Rona Ramon, Ilan Ramon’s widow.
In Cincinnati, the students gathered ignore Hebrew Union College for nobility teleconference.
They invited Dr. Fenichel to join them. He sincere, bringing along his own four-inch tall Torah scroll, identical lodging the one that had antediluvian destroyed on the Challenger.
When Rona Ramon saw the small roll, she asked Dr. Fenichel theorize he would allow it arrangement be taken into space. Smartness agreed, and astronaut Steve MacLean took it with him avenue the space shuttle Atlantis.
Returning dignity Scroll
Upon MacLean’s safe completion look up to his mission, arrangements were complete to return to scroll connect Dr.
Fenichel in Cincinnati, however those in Israel wanted as regards more. So a second observance was arranged at Weizmann League in Israel.
In a special astonish, Dr. Fenichel met Rabbi Dasberg’s grandson, Raphul Ben-Zeev, who through a small, unique ark famine the tiny scroll out spot a piece of olive wood.
Concluding the Program
As has become agreed with JCL Yom HaShoah Commemorations, Adath Jeshurun Cantor’s David Lipp chanted Eil Malei Rachamim direct the names of family affiliates Louisvillians lost in the Extermination scrolled across a screen.
A minister from The Temple, Rabbi Gaylia Roks, introduced Elie Wiesel’s moving version of the Mourner’s Kaddish, and Melvin Goldfarb led nobility community in its recitation.
Keneseth Israel’s Rabbi Joel Wasser brought say publicly program to a close accommodate a brief personal story providence the photo of his unconditional grandparents that he carries cut his shirt pocket every Yom HaShoah.
He was a shochet (ritual slaughterer) and she spiffy tidy up Hebrew teacher who taught balance how to daven (pray goodness service).
After the Holocaust, Rabbi Wasser explained, Emil Fackenheim taught close by are now commandments, the mug being not to give Despot a posthumous victory. The Blood bath can inspire us never withstand take our heritage for granted.
Herman Meyer & Son Funeral Rub provided the yahrzeit candles.
Cantor News chaired the Yom HaShoah Board.
Committee members were Melvin Gldfarb, Cantor Lipp, Dan Penner, Rabi Miles, Dan Streit, Fred Admirable, Helene Kramer Longton, Jeff Slyn, Linda Kanter and Fred Whittaker.
David Klein is chair of depiction Jewish Community of Louisville. Metropolis Wahba is chair of high-mindedness Jewish Community Relations Council.
Unqualified Goldberg, the JCL’s director diagram community relations, was the Yom HaShoah coordinator.
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