Jewish Remembrance Week Görlitz/Zgorzelec

11/10/2023

Liebe Freunde,

So viele von euch haben mich gefragt: WIE KANN ICH HELFEN?
Hier ist die Antwort: Bitte spendet an unsere Kampagne. Ihr werdet damit DIREKT einer jüdischen Familie helfen, die aus Holocaust-Überlebenden der zweiten und dritten Generation besteht, deren Leben durch das jüngste Verbrechen auf jüdisches Leben unwiderruflich verändert wurde.

Mitglieder der Familie Feldmann und Hirschfeld (die wir erst im Juni zur Verlegung der Stolpersteine ihrer Familie in Görlitz empfangen haben) leben in Kibbuzim direkt an der Grenze zu Gaza: vor allem Nahal Oz & Kfar Azza.

Die Mitglieder dieser Mehrgenerationenfamilie haben bei dem darauffolgenden Massaker fast alles außer ihrem Leben verloren. Sie kamen buchstäblich mit der Kleidung auf dem Rücken und den Schuhen an den Füßen davon. Ich, Mark, Peter Feldmann und Tamar Hirschfeld haben eine Kampagne gestartet, um den Hirschfelds dabei zu helfen, mit den lebenswichtigen Dingen, die wir so oft für selbstverständlich halten, wieder auf die Beine zu kommen: Kleidung, Schuhe, persönliche Hygieneartikel. Sie haben buchstäblich alles verloren, als ihre Häuser zerstört, Autos in Brand gesteckt und alles, von Pässen bis hin zu wertvollen Familienerbstücken, geplündert wurde.

Unser Ziel ist ungefähr 5.000 € pro Familie für vier Mitglieder der Familie Hirschfeld/Feldmann zu sammeln, die jetzt buchstäblich wieder Flüchtlinge sind – dieses Mal in ihrem eigenen Land. Und wenn Sie nicht spenden können: Teilen, teilen, teilen!
Ich danke Ihnen für Ihre Liebe. Vielen Dank für eure Gebete. Wir brauchen sie und werden sie auch weiterhin brauchen.

AM ISRAEL CHAI!
Dr. Mark & Lauren Leiderman

Helping the Hirschfelds: The Hirschfeld family is an Israeli family who were forced to flee their homes in the southern Israel after a barbaric and terrifying massacre in their kibbutzim by Hamas terrorists. The Hirschfeld family is facing a long process back to normalcy. In this difficult time, we

29/06/2023

It was a pleasure to have you join us, Cherrie Daniels!

20/06/2023

We are so proud of our Judi Hannes Mendelsohn!

Judi Hannes-Mendelsohn über die deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft, ihre Urgroßmutter und eine Gedenkwoche

20/06/2023

Can't be in Görlitz tonight for our first event? It is being professionally live streamed 🙂

World War II caused massive change across the globe. No international community was affected as much as the Jews.
What was life like for these former Görlitzers in their new homelands?
This is what we aim to discuss on this special evening, in conversation with visiting Jewish Görlitz descendants and other voices about this subject.

Check it out on youtube:

World War II caused massive change across the globe. No international community was affected as much as the Jews. What was life like for these former Görlit...

18/06/2023

And so it begins. Having dinner in the company of our first arriving descendants and one of Görlitz’s 7 remaining Holocaust survivors, Renate Muhr. What an amazing week it is going to be!

14/06/2023

09/06/2023

How long does it take to clean up one of the majestic burial sites in the Görlitz Jewish Cemetery?

These ladies make it look easy.

Soziokulturelles Zentrum Hillersche Villa
DAI Sachsen

08/06/2023

Before we got started with our very busy work day in the Jewish Cemetery, 31 students and our 7 adults participating in Project Mitzvah had the opportunity to spend the entire day with Rabbi Esther Jonas-Maertin on Tuesday.

The students got to learn first hand about Jewish burial rituals, about the beautiful symbols you might not first notice in a Jewish cemetery, and even a little bit of Hebrew!

We are so grateful that Rabbi Esther Jonas-Maertin is the official spiritual advisor for Jewish Remembrance Week Görlitz/Zgorzelec and that she even came a bit early to Görlitz to help make an incredible experience for our Project Mitzvah students.

Photos by our amazing friend, Matthias Wehnert.

06/06/2023

Project Mitzvah is in full swing as we are about to begin Day #2 with the fantastic Rabbi Esther Jonas-Maertin!

Check out these photos from our offical JRW photographer and friend, Matthias Wehnert from the first day yesterday. We went for a 2 hour walk through Jewish Görlitz (from the middle ages up until today) with Michal Peri, the daughter of Görlitz Holocaust survivor, Reuven Peri.

Bring on Day #2!
Soziokulturelles Zentrum Hillersche Villa
DAI Sachsen

28/04/2023

28/04/2023

The Butterfly Project Landkreis Görlitz/Zgorzelec #3 is in the books! The amazing 6th grade students (almost 70 of them) at Augustum Annen Gymnasium took my breath away several times. I got to hear a little girl recite Rita Herbst’s story and I got tears in my eyes.

Names. Stories. All of the Jewish kids who lived in Goerlitz being remembered by the youth who live here today. Three pieces of our Landkreis Görlitz/Zgorzelec Butterfly Project finished! 3 more to go!

27/04/2023

The Butterfly Project Goerlitz/Zgorzelec number 2 is in the books! These 40 kids from the Freie Evangelische Oberschule Görlitz did a phenomenal job helping us to remember the Jewish youth and children from our Landkreis and region! A huge thanks to their amazing teachers for helping us organize today!

29/03/2023

On this day, exactly 90 years ago something historic and horrible happened right outside my front door. For reference, this event happened more than five years before the Reichs Kristallnacht Pogrom of November 9, 1938.

What happened in Görlitz on March 29, 1933, made the news in international newspapers around the world. Yet we don’t even have a full list of names for the 37 Jewish men arrested and humiliatingly paraded through the streets of Görlitz on that day….

Join me for a closer look into what happened on this day 90 years ago, and stop to pause to have a think if you are walking through Postplatz today.

A huge shout out to all of the Görlitz Jewish descendants that made the research into this article possible.

You can read it in English, German, Polish, or Hebrew at the link below:
https://jrwgoerlitz.com/2023/03/28/march-29-1933-this-wasnt-the-reichs-kristallnacht-pogrom-it-happend-more-than-five-and-a-half-years-before/



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By: Lauren LeidermanMarch 29, 2023 The SA Mob Gathering on Postplatz in Görlitz, March 29,1933. Bestand Ratsarchiv Görlitz When people come to visit my apartment, one of the first things they tend to notice is the majestic, and grand view of the Görlitz Postplatz. It is one of these truly special...