Polish and Jewish students honor the Jews of Dzialoszyce

On May 15th, 2009 a group of Jewish high school seniors from the Shalhevet School in Los Angeles, accompanied by two Holocaust survivors, were greeted in Dzialoszyce by Polish students and teachers from the local high school as well as by students from Krakow's Jagiellonian University. The group marched together to the ruins of the town's once magnificent synagogue where they were addressed in Polish by one of the survivors. They also learned that the synagogue had housed a voluntary kitchen that the community operated with great sacrifice in order to keep thousands from starving during the Nazi occupation. The town's Mayor greeted the group and promised to shore up the synagogue ruins so they do not collapse. The group also paid their respects at the monument near the mass grave of over 1,500 Jews shot during the deportation on September 3rd, 1942. Finally, the group ascended the hill to the Jewish cemetery. Although there are no longer any tombstones or a wall, this site is sacred because of the thousands of Dzialoszyce Jews buried there. The final prayers of the Jews of Dzialoszyce at this cemetery were recalled and the shofar was again sounded, as it had been 67 earlier. The ceremony ended with Poles and Jews affixing symbolic tombstones to the trees that now cover the cemetery .

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[MarcoBocoure]

@owmenpol most of us dont speak Yiddish.....can we have it in hebrew or english?

[OrzelPejsaty]

Poland without Jews is no more the same country as it was b4 war. I know there was anti-Semitism started from end of XIX. I don't justify murderers. This things should not happened. It was a crazy time for Europe and Russia however. New things like nazism, communism inspired the minds of even righteous ppl. The responsible did say nothing...

I wish myself to come back with our relation to XVII century, when your fathers called Poland the 'Jewish Paradise'.

Szalom

[Maarlens]

Regards from Poland!

[MotekNIKT]

Beautiful!

We are waiting for more and longer meetings with students from US.

Krakow student :-)

[owmenpol]

דאס איז א שיין פילם, מיר פון פוילן און יידן פון אמעריקא. פוילן איז א גאסטריינטלעך לאנד. :) ק.פ.

[MOE435]

Thanks for the upload!

Beautiful!