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"Yom
Ha' Shoah - With Guest Speaker Dr. Yehuda Nir" |
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A
Program Commemorating Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance
Day. Recorded, Sunday, (May 4th, 2008) - (29 Nissan
5768), at Congregation B'nai Israel in Gainesville. This
Program was sponsored by the Jewsih Council of North
Central Florida, with support from Congregation B'nai
Israel in Gainesville, Congregation B'nai Israel Men's
Club, B'nai Israel Sisterhood, Temple Shir Shalom, and
Philip Schwartz. |
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Listen On Line Here |
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Hatikvah |
Kol
Chadash |
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Greetings |
David Greenberg (B'nai) |
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Greetings |
Abe
Goldman (JCNCF) |
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Greetings |
Ken
Wald (UF Jewish Studies) |
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Introduction |
David Cohen & Jordan Dern |
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Proclamation |
Paula M. DeLaney |
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Eili,
Eili |
Kol
Chadash |
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Candle
Lighting |
Dara
Wald |
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We the
Tephilin of Once |
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was Europe by Yaakove Azriel |
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El Malay
Rachamim |
Howard Rosenblatt |
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Mourner's Kaddish |
Rabbi Micahel Joseph |
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Kol
Haolam Kulo |
Kol
Chadash |
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Speaker |
Dr. Yehuda Nir |
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Concluding Remarks |
David Cohen |
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Concluding Remarks |
Jordan Dern |
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God
Bless America |
All
Sing |
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Yehuda Nir was
a 10-year old boy living in Poland when the Germans invaded in 1939. His
father was killed by the Nazis, but he, his sister, and his mother
survived, living in and around Cracow and Warsaw. How they managed to
avoid capture is a truly remarkable story. |
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They were
finally captured in 1944 following the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis
(in which Yehuda fought). They were sent to a slave labor camp in
Germany and were eventually liberated by the Soviet army. |
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Yehuda’s story of
survival is told in his book, The Lost Childhood, which has been
translated into several languages (copies will be available at the
Memorial Service). A portion of a New York Times review says: |
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"The Lost
Childhood gives us the world of war as seen through the eyes of a young
boy, born in 1930 into a prosperous Jewish family in Lwow. In the summer
of 1941, shortly after the Germans arrive in the city, the boy's father
is arrested (and, it is later learned, executed). This leaves him, his
mother and his older sister, Lala, to survive on their own, something
for which they show a remarkable talent." |
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Yehuda returned to
Poland in 1945 then he and his family moved to Israel just in time for
the War of Independence. Yehuda (his adopted Israeli name) was only 17
and lied about his age in order to join the Israeli army and fight in
that war. He eventually earned a high school diploma and entered medical
school at Hebrew University. He came to New York in 1959 to study
psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Hospital, intending to return to Israel, but in
New York he stayed. In addition to his private practice, he is on the
faculty of the Cornell Medical School. Not surprisingly, his psychiatric
practice specializes in post-traumatic stress disorder. |
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Stuart and Charna
Cohn recently met Yehuda in New York. He graciously accepted their
invitation to come to Gainesville to be our guest speaker and share his
story and reflections. |
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