Yom HaShoah falls on 27 Nisan of the Jewish calendar, which measures days from sunset to sunset. This year on the Christian calendar it began at sunset today, May 5, and will end at sunset on May 6. It is the annual day of remembrance to commemorate the fates of the approximately 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust during World War II.
The following are my family members I have been told died in the Holocaust. All of them are from the Mekler/Nowicki branch of my family and lived in what was Grodna gubernia in the Russian Empire (now in Belarus). May their memory be for a blessing.
Beile Dubiner
Eliezer Dubiner
Herschel Dubiner
Moishe Dubiner
Sore (Mekler) Dubiner
Aidel Goldsztern
Golda Goldsztern
Josef Goldsztern
Pearl (Gorfinkel) Goldsztern
Tzvi Goldsztern
Esther Golubchik
Fagel Golubchik
Lazar Golubchik
Peshe (Mekler) Golubchik
Pinchus Golubchik
Yechail Golubchik
Mirka (Nowicki) Krimelewicz
— Krimelewicz
Beile Szocherman
Chanania Szocherman
Mobsza Eli Szocherman
Perel Szocherman
Raizl (Perlmutter) Szocherman
Zlate Szocherman
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| Mirka Krimelewicz's name on the passenger list for my great-great-grandparents Gershon and Dobra Nowicki, as their nearest relative in the country they immigrated from in 1922. She was their daughter and the sister of my great-grandmother. This is the only documentation I have of her name and of her existence. |
So powerful to see their names listed. May their names always be spoken and their memory continue to live.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jenny.
DeleteJenny expressed the feeling brilliantly.
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