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From the Stated Meeting of Philadelphia City Council held Thursday, April 25, 2019:
Councilman Allan Domb (At Large) led a presentation in solemn recognition of the week of April 21 through April 28, 2019 as the National Annual Remembrance of the Six Million Jewish Martyrs, who perished during the Holocaust.
Read the resolution: http://bit.ly/2KYVy5f
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A
B
C
C
H
Morning,
thank
you
for
allowing
us
the
opportunity
to
speak
with
you
regarding
our
annual
ceremony.
We
have
with
us
today.
First,
I
want
to
thank
that
allen,
dom
first
sponsoring
this
event.
The
resolution
and
also
council
president
Darrell
Clarke
and
with
us
today,
is
Naomi
Adler,
the
CEO
of
the
Jewish
Federation
of
Greater
Philadelphia
rabbi,
Bob,
gia
Glaser,
director
of
the
Jewish
Community
Relations
Council,
arlene
fickler,
chair
of
the
Jewish
Community
Relations
Council,
and
two
very
important
people
marius
and
martha
jaribg,
who
are
both
Holocaust
survivors.
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This
event,
as
you
have
heard,
will
take
place
this
Sunday
April
28th.
We
had
originally
planned
to
have
it
outside,
but
because
the
weather
looks
like
it's
going
to
be
rainy,
we
will
definitely
have
an
adroit
of
Shalom
Synagogue
I
brought
and
Green
Streets
at
1:00
p.m.
and
we
invite
all
of
you
to
attend.
This
year's
program
is
focused
on
the
torah's
in-stock
concentration
camp,
which
was
located
30
miles
north
of
Prague
in
the
Czech
Republic
through
in
World
War
two.
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It
helped
primarily
Jews
from
Czechoslovakia,
as
well
as
tens
of
thousands
of
Jews
deported,
chiefly
from
Germany
and
Austria,
as
well
as
hundreds
from
the
Netherlands
and
Denmark
more
than
a
hundred
and
fifty
thousand
Jews
sent
there,
including
15,000
children
and
held
there
for
months
or
years
before
being
sent
by
rail
transports
to
their
deaths
at
Treblinka
and
ostrich
extermination
camps
in
occupied
Poland.
Less
than
a
hundred
and
fifty
children
survived.
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Although
Terezin
shot
was
not
an
extermination.
Camp
about
33,000
died
in
the
ghetto.
This
was
mostly
due
to
the
appalling
conditions
arising
out
of
extreme
population
that
density,
malnutrition
and
disease
about
88,000
inhabitants
were
deported
to
Auschwitz
and
other
extermination
camps.
At
the
end
of
World
War,
two
there
were
17,000
247
survivors
of
tourism
study.
This
camp
was
different.
It
has
many
educated
Jews.
Unlike
other
camps,
residence,
that's
detainees,
included
scholars,
philosophers,
scientists,
visual
artists
and
musicians
of
all
types,
some
of
whom
had
achieved
international
renown
and
many
contributed
to
the
camp's
cultural
life.
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The
Nazis
used
this
camp
in
a
propaganda
effort
designed
to
fool
the
Western
Allies,
the
Nazis
publicized,
the
camp
for
its
rich
cultural
life.
Children
into
residence
were
housed
separately
from
adults
and
boys
separately
from
girls.
Each
home
had
an
adult
supervisor
who
held
illegal
classes
so
that
children
would
not
fall
behind
in
their
education
once
they
were
free
from
imprisonment.
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One
home
which
housed
boys
aged
13
to
15,
set
up
their
own
government
and
secretly
created
a
magazine
vedam,
which
was
the
longest-running
clandestine
publication
of
the
Holocaust
betim
included.
Poems
articles
dialogues,
artwork
and
whatever
the
boys
and
their
teacher
wanted
to
record.
They
gathered
clandestinely
every
Friday
night
from
1942
to
1944
to
read
aloud
the
week's
issue.
Most
of
the
boys
perished
in
the
death
camps
of
the
few,
who
survived
one
managed
to
save
the
magazine's.
H
Lasher
enlisted
the
help
of
a
friendly
Nazi
guard
to
bring
her
a
tree
seedling
from
the
forest.
The
next
day,
the
guard
presented
her
with
a
seedling
about
four
inches
high,
the
children
and
mrs.
Lasher
planted
the
tree
in
the
children's
quarters.
She
told
them
that
this
seedling
needed
water
and
sun
to
grow.
She
asked
each
of
the
children
to
give
up
a
portion
of
their
water.
Each
day
said
the
seedling
could
be
nourished
and
thrive.
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Can
you
imagine,
asking
these
children
to
give
up
a
portion
of
their
daily
water,
which
was
rationed
and
it
was
so
small,
but
they
did
when
our
Malaya
died?
She
was
buried
beneath
her
tree,
which
then
stood
30
feet
tall.
A
plaque
dedicated
to
her
was
placed
on
her
grave
and
serves
as
a
reminder
of
her
courage
in
2007.
Her
mystery
inter-agency
thought
was
dying
because
this
was
no
ordinary
tree.
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Several
cuttings
were
taken
and
to
the
United
States
Philadelphia
was
honored
to
be
presented
with
one
of
the
cuttings
just
as
interesting
start
the
tree,
the
twig
was
nourished
with
water
and
Sun,
and
now
stands
twelve
feet
tall.
It
was
planted
this
year
in
the
Holocaust
Memorial
Plaza,
where
it
thrives,
where
it
rides.
As
a
lasting
memorial
of
the
15,000
children
imprisoned
in
the
trades
in
stock
ghetto.
Only
about
1100
survived.
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This
Sunday
young
people
aged
from
11
into
their
mid-thirties,
will
participate
in
readings
and
musical
presentations
to
remember
and
honor
the
courage
those
children
exhibited
the
Keystone
boy
choir
will
be
performing
a
piece
dedicated
to
erm
allows
legacy.
Our
youth
must
be
educated
in
order
to
grow
from
a
twig
into
a
blossoming
tree.
H
Today,
the
world
is
facing
a
resurgence
of
anti-semitism.
The
Holocaust
has
taught
us
what
can
happen
when
people
turn
away.
We
can
never
ignore
intimidation
and
hatred.
The
Jewish
survivors
of
the
Holocaust
have
demanded
that
the
world
not
forget
the
six
million
Jewish
martyrs.
If
we
have
learned
anything
from
the
Holocaust,
it
is
that
we
are
all
responsible
for
each
other.
Inaction
is
equal
to
acceptance
once
again,
I
invite
you
to
join
us
this
year.