Remembrance, Rescue, and Recovery: Going Home to Poland
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Simon (Szymon) Mahler
Maternal grandfather
Krosno, Poland.
13 siblings.
Wolf & Bascha Mahler.
Butcher shop.
Simon left Krosno for U.S.,
1912
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Szymon & sister
Fannie
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Ashkenazi Jewish Tradition
Child named in honor
of deceased relative.
Great-Grandfather
Wolf Mahler
Hebrew name Ze'ev,
means “wolf."
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Identity
5 years old
I learned from
Szymon our family
history
Direct relationship
to German
Holocaust
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Szymon returned to
Krosno 1932 with
grandmother, Eva
(Schoenwetter)
Mahler
Brought early home
movie camera
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Szymon Mahler & Eva
(Schoenwetter) Mahler, Wedding
Picture, New York City, 1921
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Simon & Eva’s 1932 Film
Muzeum Podkarpackie (Subcarpathian) w
Krosnie
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Wolf, Szymon, Bascha Mahler, 1932
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A BRIEF HISTORY
OF KROSNO
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Poland
Krosno
Southeastern Poland
River Wislok
Carpathian Mountain
region
Galicia
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*KROSNO
* *Krosno
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Krosno, Poland
Founded in 1324.
Developed on weaving industry.
“Krosno” means “loom” in Polish.
Early Krosno behind heavily fortified stone &
mortar walls.
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Krosno, Poland
January 1, 1900, Galicia governor granted Krosno
Jews right to organize their community (kehillah).
Jewish stores opened: butcher shops, fish stores,
and bakeries.
1906, two baking families: Selig Findling and
Chaim Oling.
Three Jewish slaughterhouses owned by Fulka
Breitowitz, Moses Breitowicz, and Wolf Mahler.”
William Leibner, http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0030_KrosnoCompilation.htm
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Wolf Mahler & Family,
Butcher Shop
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Population Growth in Krosno
YEAR POPULATION CATHOLIC JEW ORTH CATHOLIC
1870 2132 2100 26 6
1880 2461 2318 113 (127) 30
1890 2839 2454 327 (567) 58
1900 3276 2664 567 (961) 45
1910 4353 3329 961 (1559) 63
1914 5521 3893 1558 70
1921 6287 4490 1725 72
•Rapid growth of Jewish population
•1870 (26); 1921 (1725)
•Outpaced overall growth
•Oil discovered in the area
•1884, railway linked Krosno with Europe
•Industries developed
•Especially weaving & glass making
•Jews kept moving to Krosno. William Leibner, http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0030_KrosnoCompilation.htm
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Synagogue
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Rabbi Shmuel Fuehrer of Krosno
1904, Kehillah hired Shmuel Fuehrer first and only Rabbi.
Fuehrer earlier served as rabbi in Milowka and Krakow.
Also head of Jewish judicial council, Krosno.
Consecrated Krosno’s Jewish Cemetery.
Filmed by Szymon Mahler in 1932
Photo by Alexander White
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Nazis in Krosno
German troops invaded Poland
1 September 1939
Bombed Krosno same day
Small military airport & railway station
Entered Krosno, 9 September 1939
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Krosno strategic target
Oil fields for Germany.
German troops fortified area.
Trenches around town.
Fortified rock houses as
machine-gun stations.
Barricaded streets with stone &
logs from demolished buildings.
Mined other stone buildings and
city approaches. Bill Tarkulich
http://www.iabsi.com/gen/public/military__carpatho.htm
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Nazis in Krosno
Adolph Hitler &
Benito Mussolini met
in Krosno
Planned strategy for
war on eastern front.
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Nazis in Krosno
Nazi proclamation, 1939
Jews must leave Krosno
Many Jews hid in city or countryside
Others crossed river to area German army left free
Slowly Jews reappeared in Krosno
Ordered to wear white arm band with blue star
Forbidden to enter parks or public institutions
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Nazis in Krosno
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~alb/ugly/naziSoldiersBrutalizeJewInPoland.jpg
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NAZI “RACIAL” PHILOSOPHY
“Racial” arguments cornerstone of persecution of Jews (as well as most people of color and people with disabilities).
Jews and others descendants from inferior “racial stands.”
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NAZI “RACIAL” PHILOSOPHY
Nazis asserted Jews
polluting “Aryan
race.”
Jews forced to wear
Yellow Star of
David patches, sign
of “race pollution.”
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Nazis in Krosno
Nazis occupied center of
Jewish Quarter
Krosno’s Market Square,
troops referred to as
“Horse Square”
Merchants brought goods
to open-air markets on
Square in horse-drawn
carts
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Market Square, Krosno, Poland
Simon & Eva Mahler’s 1932 film
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Nazis in Krosno
June 1941, Nazis ordered creation of list of Jewish population of Krosno.
Contained 2072 names.
William Leibner, http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0030_KrosnoCompilation.htm
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Nazis in Krosno
9 August 1942, Nazis hung posters
Jews to appear next day, 9:00 a.m. Targowa railway station.
Limited to 10 kilo suitcase
Assembled, 12 August 1942
Selection held:
Young and able bodied spared
2100 taken to forest and shot
600 placed in Krosno ghetto
William Leibner, http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0030_KrosnoCompilation.htm
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Nazis in Krosno
Nazis searched city for hidden Jews.
Shot Jews on the spot
Nazis created small ghetto, 600 Jews
Kept until 1 December 1942
All shipped to Rzeszow or Reishe ghettos
Eventually to Auschwitz & Belzec
Some Jews remained in area in labor camps
Krosno clear of Jews, except for few who hid in
Polish homes. William Leibner, http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0030_KrosnoCompilation.htm
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Nazis in Krosno
127 Jews rounded up
Shot in mass grave
Photo by Warren J. Blumenfeld
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Nazis in Krosno
Nazis converted
Krosno
Synagogue
Leveled between
1945 & 1946
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Nazis in Krosno
Rabbi Fuehrer taken
from synagogue and
shot
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Nazis in Krosno
Photo by Warren J. Blumenfeld
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END OF WWII
Allies liberated Krosno
Krosno became a center for assembling Jewish survivors
Then went to Rumania and sailed to Palestine
This semi-legal base operated until Palestine borders closed by British.
Jewish officials left Krosno
Krosno’s Jewish survivors never returned
Anti-Semitism from many non-Jewish residents
Jewish presence ended to this very day.
William Leibner, http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/holocaust/0030_KrosnoCompilation.htm
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END OF WWII
Estimated 6 million Jews
murdered: equal to two-thirds
of European Jewry, and one-
third of the entire world-wide
Jewish population.
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GOING
HOME 2008
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A family history
recovered
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Kasia discovered Mahler family’s Apartment and
Butcher Shop directly off Krosno’s Market Square.
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Former apartment building and butcher shop of Mahler family.
Photo by Katarzyna Krepulec-Nowak
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Today 1930s
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Original
Mahler
Building
(lower right)
before
renovation
following
WWII.
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Current owner of building.
Her father and his two partners rented the space to Mahler family.
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Owner granted us permission to enter the upstairs apartment where
Mahler family resided.
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My heart seemed to pound out of my chest as we
entered the building where my family once lived.
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Following World War II, fire damaged upstairs apartment, but
restored close to original condition.
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Currently serves as offices for a law firm.
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Courtyard behind Mahler family apartment and shop,
depicted in Simon & Eva’s 1932 Krosno film.
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Today, former Mahler family Butcher Shop
serves as Candy Shop.
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The current proprietors graciously gave us a
tour around the shop.
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THE JEWISH CEMETERY
(Cmentarz Zydowski)
of Krosno
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Cmentarz Zydowski
Following German
invasion of Krosno
Polish citizens, fearing
Nazis would vandalize &
demolish grave stones,
Entered Jewish Cemetery
Hid grave stones,
Returned them after
German troops retreated
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Cmentarz Zydowski Jews no longer reside in Krosno
Cemetery fell into disarray.
2002 local Krosno students, under management of
Grzegorz Bożek (local teacher and ecology activist)
Restored cemetery.
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Photo taken July 2008
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MARKET SQUARE &
THE FORMER JEWISH QUARTER
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Former Jewish ghetto, 1942
600 Jews forced into 12 small buildings,
located directly below.
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“Jewish day”
Krosno, poland
16 January 2011
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MUZEUM PODKARPACKIE w KROSNIE
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Krosno “Jewish Day” Flyer
Photo by Bert Cohen
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Afternoon of event, Bert, Gary, and I met with
Kasia in her office to go over logistics.
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Translater, Kasia Nowak.
Photo by Bert Cohen
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Photo by Bert Cohen
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Here with this remarkable woman who is working to have us all face
our past and who to me is living Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s words:
Photo by Bert Cohen
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“If you want peace, work for justice.”
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“There is much evil here, and as a mother of a three-year-old,
I must do what I can to work for a better world for my son.”
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Jewish tenet of Tikkun Olam:
the transformation, healing, and repairing of
the world so that it becomes a more just,
peaceful, nurturing, and perfect place.
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“Jewish Day” exhibit area.
Photo by Bert Cohen
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Displayed in Krosno “Jewish
Day” exhibit area.
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Synagogue
Displayed in Krosno
“Jewish Day” exhibit area.
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Moses, David, Simon Mahler Displayed in Krosno
“Jewish Day” exhibit area.
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Brother ? Mahler, Fannie Mahler, Simon Mahler, Dinah Mahler
Gertrude Mahler (David Mahler’s Wife), Saul Mahler, Philip Mahler,
David Mahler, Beatrice Mahler, New York, c. 1915
Displayed in Krosno
“Jewish Day” exhibit
area.
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Simon, Eva
Eva, Simon
Charles, Blanche, Jack
Eva
Scott, Simon, Warren,
Abby, Debra, Curt, Susan
U.S.A. Displayed in Krosno “Jewish Day”
exhibit area.
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“History of the Mahler
Family”
Displayed in Krosno “Jewish Day” exhibit area.
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“Oldest Film of Krosno”
Explanation of Simon & Eva
Mahler’s 1932 family film of
Krosno.
Displayed in Krosno “Jewish Day” exhibit area.
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Nazi troops transported a number of Krosno Mahlers to Korczyn
(once called Rzegocin) where they murdered them: Haya Rivka,
Eliazar, Hersh, Raphael, Moshe, Sarah, Yanka, and Wolf Mahler.
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SUBCARPATHIAN MUSEUM OF KROSNO
Presents
Krosno Jewish Day
… And Your Brother …
16 January 2011, 17.00 [5:00 p.m.]
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Though the Museum auditorium holds125, an estimated 650 people
attended the “Jewish Day” event. Sadly, over 500 people had to be
turned away.
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Dr. Jan Gancarski, museum director, “Jewish Day” established in
1997 and celebrated annually in January. Falls on eve of Week of
Prayer for Christian Unity.
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• He quoted Fr. Archbishop Jozef Michalik:
"The Community of prayer, a better
understanding of their faith, honoring the
memory of Jews who were part of Polish
history and the Poles who have brought
their faithfulness in difficult times, is the
most important fruit, which brings Jewish
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“It is reminded that Christians and Jews believe in one creator of heaven and earth, giver of the
commandments, whose observance is a way of life….
It's time for another of our culture - an older, original - [and for us] to let go of prejudices and stereotypes, a genuine chance of understanding and reconciliation. It
is an opportunity for dialogue, and what we really need is a moment of mutual understanding and
respect, a fraternal conversation….
In Krosno, we can not on this day talk about the descendants of our older brothers who once lived here. None of the Krosno Jews who survived the Holocaust settled here after the war, so we only remember our
neighbors. We can only look at them in the faded photos… which have been left here, memorabilia
preserved in the museum.” Dr. Jan Gancarski
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Fr. Waldemar Janiga led the assembled in a
prayer of religious understanding and unity.
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Photo by Bert Cohen
To introduce the Mahler film, Kasia led the
audience through a guided visualization
developed from her extensive genealogical
and historical research. Here is an English
translation of Kasia’s address:
* * * * *
Our exhibition is called “Brothers,"
[neighbours] and it is not an exhibition
about the death of people. It is about their
lives.
Along with our neighbours, we created the
world, far from perfect, but our own. This
exhibition is an invitation to walk through
pre-war Krosno.
Have you liked the "Old Movies" series
that used to be on the national television
channel every Sunday? I loved it and I
didn't miss even one.
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Let's imagine a world from this kind of black and white movie. Let's
imagine black and white Krosno.
It is September of 1932. Our town really blossoms this time of year.
Someone left a copy of the New Journal on a small bench down by the
river bank. Mr. Dym's shop has its advertisement on the second page.
One can see the new, popular gloves for ladies.
On Pilsudski Street you can smell the rolls from the second baking in the
bakery of Izrael Breitowicz. The people from Linas Chojlim are already
giving out the soup for orphans from Korczyńska Street.
And here it is again, a large line to Mahler's butcher shop. Little Mannis
Mahler is helping his grandfather. He is a beautiful, sweet little boy.
Doctor Still had a sudden call from the shelter in the synagogue. He looks
very worried. Chairman Akselrad is taking his daughter to the piano
lesson. I heard she's great.
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Our Market Square is filled with sunlight, teeming with life.
Mr. Englander from the Aguda Party is having an argument with Mr. Wiesenfeld over Zionism. After they finish, they will both go to Chanie Plater's restaurant to put on the nosebag [eat], and perhaps later, they will go to the taproom on Franciscan Street.
And we? Shall we go to Ider's Inn on Staszic Street? Their meals are marvelous!
This kind of dream-walk is about to materialise here tonight thanks to the very special movie that we received from a very special man.
But I would like him to tell his story in his own words.
Ladies and gentlemen -- Dr. Warren Blumenfeld.
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Simon’s antique Tallit (Jewish prayer shawl) and embroidered
Kippah (Jewish skull cap)
“Letter to My Great-Grandparents of Krosno, Poland.”
Photo by Damian Krzanowski
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Dear Great-Grandfather Wolf and Great-Grandmother Bascha,
Though I have never written to you, I have carried your image and felt
your comforting presence ever since that first day when your son [my
maternal grandfather, Simon Mahler] told me about you….
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One day, when I was very young, I sat upon Simon’s knee. Looking down urgently, but with deep affection, he said to me, “Warren, you are named after my father, Wolf Mahler. I lived in Krosno, Poland with my father, Wolf, and my mother, Bascha, and 13 brothers and sisters, and aunts, uncles, and cousins.”
Simon talked about all of you with pride, but as he told me this, he seemed rather sad. I asked him if you still lived in Poland, and he responded that his father, mother, and most of the rest of his family were no longer alive. When I asked him how they had died, he told me that they had all been killed by people called Nazis. I questioned him why the Nazis killed our family, and he responded, “Because they were Jews.”
Those words have reverberated in my mind, haunting me ever since….
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As you know, according to Ashkenazi [European heritage]
Jewish tradition, a newborn infant is given a name in honor of a
deceased relative. The name is formed by taking the entire name
or just the initial letter of the name of the ancestor being honored.
I had the good fortune of being named after you great-
grandfather Wolf. As it has turned out over the years, you not
only gave me my name, but you, Bascha, and Simon also gave me
a sense of history and a sense of my identity.
Simon left Krosno in 1912 bound for New York City, leaving
you and most of his siblings. His older brother, David, who
traveled to the United States in 1911, returned in 1912 to bring
Simon, and three of his sisters, Fannie, Sadie, and Dinah back
with him. As they left Poland, a series of pogroms targeting Jews
had spread throughout the area. Simon often explained to me that
they could only travel by night with darkness as their shield to
avoid being attacked and beaten by people who hated Jews.
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They arrived in the United States on New Years’
Eve in a city filled with gleaming lights and
frenetic activity, and with their own hearts filled
with hope for a new life.
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Simon returned to Krosno with my
grandmother, Eva, in 1932 to a joyous
homecoming. This was the first time he had
seen you since he left Poland. He took with
him an early home movie camera to record
you on film. While in Poland, he promised
that once back in the United States, he
would try to earn enough money to send
for his remaining family members who
wished to come to the United States, but
history was to thwart his plans. During
that happy reunion, he had no way of
knowing that this was to be the last time he
would ever see you and those others he left
behind alive. Just seven years later, on 1
September 1939, the Nazis invaded
Poland….
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Kasia
Nowak
translatin
g into
Polish
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Simon never fully recovered from those days in 1939. Though he kept the faces and voices from his homeland within him throughout his life, the Nazis also invaded my grandfather’s heart, killing a part of him forever. My mother told me that Simon became increasingly introspective, less spontaneous, and less optimistic of what the future would hold….
Great-grandfather Wolf and great-grandmother Bascha, you would have been proud of Simon. He was a loving and caring father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. He gave me so much: my enjoyment for taking long walks and sitting in quiet solitude, pride in my Jewish heritage, and most of all, my ability to love.
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I then talked about the righteous rescuers of those tragic times, and of those of the
modern day. I concluded my remarks by acknowledging the great work of the
“rescuers” of Jewish history and Jewish culture today in the complete absence of
Jewish people: Grzegorz Bożek and the volunteers who have restored the Jewish
cemetery in Krosno…
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…and the good people of the Muzeum Podkarpackie w Krosnie, especially
Lucas Klopot, Katarzyna Krepulec-Nowak, and Dr. Jan Gancarski. “They and
all of their colleagues work tirelessly to rescue and restore a vital part of history
in keeping memories alive and in educating new generations. They are my
heroes, and I will forever hold them in my thoughts and in my heart.”
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Gary then recited and Kasia translated Kaddish, the traditional Jewish
prayer for the dead. Before the prayer, Gary eloquently explained this
tradition and added personal reflections about what this prayer means
to him.
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Simon and Eva Mahler’s 1932 film portrayed the town of
Krosno, and in particular, the Mahler family. This rare film is
the oldest film of the town known to exist.
Jews arrived in Krosno in the fifteenth century CE, and by 1938
numbered 2700, or 18.5 percent of the town’s population.
Prior to the Nazi invasion, the Jewish population in Poland
numbered around 3 million. Today, only about 10 thousand
Jews reside in Poland.
Lucas ran the film for the audience.
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Members of the audience sat
transfixed as they witnessed
the sights of their town
during a time long passed.
Some pointed to familiar
landmarks.
Others spotted
possible relatives
in the old Market
Square. Some were
visibly moved, tears
streaming down
their cheeks.
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Great-Grandparents, this night I fulfilled a life-
long dream of bringing you, your children, and
your grand children home to a happy reunion.
With love forever, Warren
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The program came to a stirring conclusion with the brilliant clear sounds of
the Rzeszow Klezmer Band
as Lucas ran the Mahler family film one final time.
Kamil Siciak
Mateusz
Chmiel
Jacek
Anyszek Marcin
Mucha
Wojciech
Jajuga
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Bert, Gary, and I had our picture taken with Museum Director Jan
Gancarski and Krosno Mayor Piotr Przytocki.
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I was particularly touched when two students asked to take a picture with me.
Kasia Krepulec-Nowak translated that they are currently writing their thesis
paper focusing on the Mahler family of Krosno.
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At the conclusion of an emotional and memorable day, we relaxed,
unwound, and processed at a fabulous restaurant in a former wine cellar
beneath Krosno’s Market Square.
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Unfortunately, all good things must end, and we said “good bye” to our good
friend, Kasia (Kate), and her husband Matthew (whom I referred to as “Mr.
Kate”). We are seen here at the Krosno bus station ready to board our bus back
to Krakow, Monday, 17 January 2011.
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Going back to the united
states
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Leaving Auschwitz back to Krakow on the bus, Bert took some pictures from the
window. During the bus ride, we had a chance to talk and reflect not only on our
time at the concentration camps, but also on the events of the past week…
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…about Krosno, and the
friends we made…
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…about the places we had
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…about the
wonderful and
new foods we
enjoyed...
Photos by
Bert Cohen
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… about the emotional impact all of
this had on us…
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…and how we had grown closer as family.
Since Gary was scheduled to fly back home to Israel
that evening, soon after arriving back at our hotel in
Krakow, we hugged and said good bye to Gary as he
left in a cab for the airport.
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The following day, Bert and I woke early, ate breakfast, and took a cab
to the Krakow airport. Our flight to Prague had been cancelled, but we
were fortunate to catch another flight directly to Paris in time for our
Paris to Boston flight that evening.
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Though we were exhausted from an exciting and emotional week, we also felt
the energy of knowing that though we were returning to the United States, in
some ways, we had been transformed, and knowing that we will never be the
same.
Photo by Bert Cohen
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[not] the end