Each of us has a name given by the sea and given by our death

[sovay]

Despite everything, I am glad I went to the City of Cambridge Annual Holocaust Commemoration at the Tremont Street Shul, because I was surrounded by people who think it is important to remember and said so. Frieda Grayzel spoke of her experience as a child survivor of both the Warsaw Ghetto and Auschwitz; Margareta Matache read the testimony of Cârjobanu Lucreția, a child survivor of the Roma concentration camp at Covalevca in Transnistria. I had encountered Irena Klepfisz's "Bashert" before, but not Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky's "Each of Us Has a Name." I haven't been to services for more than ten years, but it seems it will take longer than that for me to forget how to say Kaddish. A Besere Velt sang "Yugnt himn," "Hulyet, hulyet, beyze vintn," and "Zog nit keyn mol." I said my great-grandfather's sisters' names.

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[wpadmirer]

I'm very glad people do still remember. I fear the day when the last survivors are gone. I hope we never forget them.

[negothick]

Here in Eastern Connecticut, our chapter of Hadassah has put together a panel of daughters of survivors who are the story-keepers of their families. The program is called "L'Dor v'Daughters" (playing off the Hebrew for "from generation to generation"). They just filmed a video for cable access that will be shown together with the panel discussion on May 21. After that, it should be on YouTube.