Ruediger Mahlo
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@RuedigerMahlo
Repräsentant der Claims Conference in Deutschland
Upon Iranian request for assistance we are activating the 🇪🇺's @CopernicusEMS rapid response 📡 mapping service in view of to the helicopter accident reportedly carrying the President of #Iran and its foreign minister. #EUSolidarity
After escaping the Siemiatycze ghetto, Holocaust survivor Sidney Zoltak and his parents were hidden for 14 months on a farm in Poland; for the last seven, they saw no daylight. Today, Sidney's son and grandson #PledgeToRemember their family's history and remind us, #DontBeABystander. #OurHolocaustStory: Sidney Zoltak was born in 1931 in Siemiatycze, Poland, a small town that was under Soviet control from 1939 through 1941, before the Nazi takeover. Sidney and his parents were under German occupation beginning in June 1941 and a year later were forced into a ghetto within the town. He and his parents escaped the evening before the start of its liquidation. After being on the run and in hiding for almost two years, the family ran into a young shepherd boy named Zygmunt Kryński on the outskirts of the village Krynki-Sobole. Sidney’s father Israel struck up a conversation with Zygmunt and asked if his family could help them. Zygmunt went and got his oldest sister, Stanislawa, who recognized Sidney’s mother Henia as the owner of a clothing store before the war. Stanislawa remembered her fondly because Henia once let her buy a coat at a significant discount when she did not have enough money to pay full price. Sidney and his parents were sheltered for 14 months; the last seven months were spent hidden in an underground bunker where they did not see daylight. They were liberated in July of 1944 and returned to their hometown, where they learned that less than 70 Jews remained from the 7,000 before the war. By then, the family home was occupied by others, and the locals did not accept them. None of Sidney's classmates or friends survived. Most Jewish residents were murdered while on the run or were deported to Treblinka. Sidney and his family spent the next four years in displaced-persons camps during which time his father passed away. Sidney kept in contact with his family’s rescuers, and in 1997, upon receiving an invitation from them for a reunion, he returned to Poland along with nine family members. In 2011, the Kryńska family was honored by @yadvashem as Righteous Among the Nations. #NeverForget #NeverAgain
Janina Rózecka hat ihr eigenes Leben riskiert, um das Leben von verfolgten Juden zu retten. Jetzt feiert sie ihren 102. Geburtstag und ist weltweit die älteste lebende Gerechte. collections.yadvashem.org/en/righteous/4… MAZAL TOV!
Pflegebedürftige jüdische Überlebende des Holocaust werden mit Hilfe der Jewish Claims Conference aus Ukraine gerettet und bei uns versorgt. Habe eine Gruppe in Marzahn in einer Pflegeeinrichtung besucht. Ihr Leben begann im Krieg, es soll nicht im Krieg enden, dafür sorgen wir.
