Home | Our Work Around the World | Western Europe | Germany | Survivor Story: Aviva Goldschmidt Aviva and her mother survived the Holocaust in various hiding places in Boryslav a sob could have revealed them and delivered them to their deaths Her mother’s admonishments had such an impact on little Aviva that even long after the Holocaust On International Holocaust Remembrance Day Aviva told her story to about 100 high school students in Frankfurt Germany as part of a Claims Conference commemoration and exhibition that focused on child survivors of the Holocaust Aviva Tuch was born in 1938 in Boryslav and lived with her parents Mendel and Pinia and older siblings Cilla and Josef Aviva spoke to about 100 students in Frankfurt Germany about her experiences during the Holocaust But Aviva’s sheltered childhood came to an end with the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 Mendel Tuch was deported for slave labor; his family never saw him again Aviva and Josef together with their mother were brought to the Boryslav slave labor camp Until liberation they lived in hiding in various places in and around Boryslav giving Aviva the strong memories of orders to be quiet at all times Aviva’s brother Josef was shot to death by German soldiers at age 20 Aviva watches as Frankfurt Mayor Peter Feldmann lays a wreath in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day Aviva told the students that she still suffers from trauma and that the memories of the Holocaust are always with her One of the students asked if when moving to Germany in the 1950s she experienced anti-Semitism and how she would judge the situation today Aviva said that anti-Semitism in Germany is more visible today and that she worries about the rise of right-wing populism all over Europe She appealed to the students to strengthen democracy a venue used for important city and regional events We displayed banners about the plight of child survivors and individual stories As recognition of her persecution and the suffering she endured, Aviva receives payments from the Article 2 Fund, and received a payment from the Child Survivor Fund. On a day when the world remembered the six million Jews who were slaughtered hear the stories of individuals like Aviva The number six million is often too large to grasp But a story of a small Jewish girl terrorized into speaking only in a whisper resonates and stays with the people who hear it Address: PO Box 1215New York, NY 10113 Tel: (646) 536-9100E-mail: info@claimscon.org The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) a nonprofit organization with offices in New York secures material compensation for Holocaust survivors around the world Founded in 1951 by representatives of 23 major international Jewish organizations, the Claims Conference negotiates for and disburses funds to individuals and organizations and seeks the return of Jewish property stolen during the Holocaust. Learn more. All content ⒸConference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) [email protected] Former MP Boryslav Bereza said that the management of Kanal 4 took off the air his investigative program "Exiles", without warning. Bereza told it on his Facebook page, as Detektor Media reported “The broadcast of my author's program "Exiles" on Kanal 4 which was announced yesterday about the Zelensky scheme of launching national air carrier did not happen yesterday. Without warning and intelligible explanation the new management of the channel blocked the investigation and silently took the program off the air According to the host, a week earlier the channel's management cut a fragment from his program about how Oleksiy Kovalyov, a MP from the Servants of the People, bought  Kanal 4 when the channel's management decided to censor my program on build-out by Zelensky's of the media empire. In the version that was aired on the Kanal 4 a fragment was cut out about the acquisition of this TV channel by the same "servant of the people" Kovalyov. We refused to cringe to the new owner and my program "Exiles" on YouTube released the full version uncut. And I asked to be officially explained why an excerpt was cut off from the program without my consent? The answer is silence the Office of the President is allegedly trying to remove Volodymyr Zelensky's criticism from the channel. In response Borislav Bereza decided to quit his job on Kanal 4 I am suspending cooperation with the channel that practices cencorship and banning independent investigations about the government. We are looking for a new place to record and to release the program” The owner of the Kanal 4 Oleksiy Kovalyov, in turn , said that Bereza's program was taken off the air because lawyers “News about the provocative program of Boryslav Bereza are circulating in the media. After reviewing the content the lawyers assured that the facts set out in the program are untrue and aimed at discrediting public authorities and destabilizing the situation in the country. For these reasons this program was taken off the air. Our goal is to tell the truth Media Detector asked Kovalev to comment on whether such pre-broadcast content checks apply to all programs whether journalists have been warned about it and whether the channel's owner considers it censorship and interference in editorial policy As IMI reported, on January 11, the new owner of Channel 4, MP from "Servants of the People" Oleksiy Kovalyov announced the termination of cooperation with host Ostap Drozdov "Any provocations that split or shake the unity of the Ukrainian people are unacceptable. As well as incitement to hatred Ostap Drozdov said that the termination of cooperation with Kanal 4 after the change of ownership was a matter of time: “There is nothing strange in this my opposition rhetoric clearly does not fit into the propaganda format of the pro-government media it became known that the People's Deputy from the "Servant of the People" Oleksii Kovalyov bought Kanal 4 from former MP Dmytro  Dobrodomov Oleksiy Kovalyov said that his family decided to buy Kanal 4 to "make it even better [email protected] (050) 447-70-63 Ідентифікатор медіа: R40-01250 Reprinting and disseminating our information is allowed but under strictly condition of reference to the source Szewach Weiss speaking at Yad Vashem circa 2003 and researched the system of power in Israel on both the local and national levels Weiss wrote dozens of books in his field of study Prof. Weiss served on the Haifa municipality from 1969-1981. He was elected to the Knesset in 1981; from 1988 to 1992, he served as a Deputy Speaker of the Knesset; and from 1992-1996 as the 13th Speaker of the House Szewach Weiss became Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Yad Vashem Directorate Chairman Avner Shalev thanked Prof Weiss for "having devoted his efforts and energy over the years to commemorating the Holocaust." he was awarded the "Yakir Haifa" award for his years of devotion to the city of Haifa and the State of Israel as well as to Holocaust remembrance and to representing Israel in Poland Yad Vashem sends its deepest condolences to his children and grandchildren The Yad Vashem website had recently undergone a major upgrade The page you are looking for has apparently been moved We are therefore redirecting you to what we hope will be a useful landing page For any questions/clarifications/problems, please contact: webmaster@yadvashem.org.il — With President Jo Biden's surprise visit to Ukraine on Monday there is more attention focused on the upcoming one-year anniversary of war in the country Few are watching more closely than the families who have arrived in our region from their war-town cities in Ukraine the Zlochevska family of five has grown by one since the war started in Ukraine One-month old Boryslav is getting bigger by the day WDAY News first reported on the family one year ago They were the first to arrive in the region after the war started Their home city of Chernev had been bombed they were forced," said family friend Gina Nelson Nelson helped get the family housing and the kids enrolled in school in Pelican Rapids "I think you think of Ukraine and coming to America and 'oh they're so lucky and this is so good,' but that is not how they see it," Nelson said and the food and everything is different here and so they weren't excited to be in America because a war brought them here." are home because of the Presidents Day holiday But while their apartment is decorated with thoughts of home there is artwork from their classes at Pelican Rapids Elementary School and Artur and his basketball team even got a medal over the weekend for a tournament The family picked the right town to call home Pelican Rapids has become a melting pot for people from all around the world and they were welcomed with open arms Members of area churches made sure the Zlochevskas had a memorable Christmas a few days ago they came back to throw a baby shower for Boryslav who is now one of Pelican Rapids' newest United States citizens “On May 1, Angelina Jolie, Hollywood star and Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency, visited the Harmony educational and rehabilitation center in the town of Boryslav. The actress and her team came to the children with gifts, good mood. Madam Ambassador also talked to children from Luhansk region," the Boryslav Town Council posted on Facebook and Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie visited a medical facility in Lviv where children injured in Russia’s missile strike on Kramatorsk are being treated The press service of Ukrzaliznytsia (Ukrainian railways) also informed that Jolie visited Lviv railway station volunteers and doctors thanked them all and the railway workers talked to the passengers of an evacuation train from Pokrovsk The actress also visited orphans and children deprived of parental care who were evacuated from the hot spots to Lviv boarding schools Angelina Jolie arrived in Ukraine on her own initiative Since the beginning of the large-scale Russian invasion she has expressed support for Ukraine and Ukrainians who have been forced to flee their homes due to the war While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421 Memorial plates to the Honoured Artists Margaryta Krynytsyna who played the role of a favorite with the public Pronya Prokopivna the opening of memorial plates to the Honoured Artists Margaryta Krynytsynaand Boryslav Brondukov will be held atthe address: Kyiv city Amvrosia Buchmy Boulevard 8 (Residential Area "Bereznyaky") Exactly in this house the famous actors had been living — Margaryta Krynytsyna from 1970 until her death in 2005 The tenants of the house are proud of the history of their place of living and of the famous neighbors and always find an opportunity to share this information with their guests The event is occasioned with the International Day of Theater one of the best theatrical works of Margaryta Vasyliyivna that brought a great success to the actress — role of Aelita in the play "A pleasant woman with a flower and windows to the north" (director E Radzynsky) in the Theater-studio of a movie actor in Kyiv where he was noticed by Mykola Zadniprovsky the Head of the Theater Institute named after Karpenko-Kary who invited Boryslav Mykolayovych to enter the Institute The initiative belongs to Andrii Strannikov and Vitalii Roslyakov the deputies of the residential area Bereznyaky daughter of the actressAlla Surina-Krynytsyna which followed her father's footsteps and became the screenwriter and film director confessed that she had a dream to place memorial plate in honor of her mother on the façade of the house where she lived —  admitted Andrii Strannikov the residents of the area referred to us often during the personal meetings as to the deputies of Kyiv city Council with a question/request to eternalize memory of outstanding residents of Bereznyaky area So we decided to realize this idea and to make her little dream come true It is important to preserve history for future generations and memory of the famous people which celebrate not only the residential area but the entire Ukraine.” The decision regarding the placement of memorial plates for outstanding actors was approved unanimously on September 19 2016 at the meeting of commission on the issues of the placement of memorial plates "It should be noted that the production and placement of memorial plates are made for extrabudgetary resources — says Vitalii Roslyakov when there is armed conflict in the East of our country it is important not to forget about culture to pay attention and give credits to the memory which have became known far beyond our residential area and country as a whole and of whom we are incredibly proud!" Also at the opening ceremony the pupils of the Studio of aesthetic development and theatrical art group of specialized school number 327 of 1st degree with intensive study of foreign languages will perform.  Contacts for the accreditation: Lyudmyla Gavrysh tеl.: 0 800 308 028, +380 44 501-39-71 fax: +380 44 546-68-97 e-mail: info@film.ua Developed by Argentum IT Lab Julia Weiner is Senior Lecturer in Art History at Regent's University Julia Weiner whose colourful and lively paintings of flowers and lovers masked the truth of the horrors she endured during the Holocaust she painted a series of works exploring her experiences during the Second World War but these were not exhibited publicly until 30 years later Two of her paintings are now in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum Galicia to Izydor and Szarlotte Goldschlag Her father was an oil-mining engineer in a region that was then the fourth largest oil producer in the world Her mother had studied art in Vienna and specialised in tapestries Alicia was their second child and had a much-loved older brother and brother Josef Goldschlag photographed in 1931 When the Nazis invaded Poland in September 1939 Isidor arranged for his wife and children to head back to Drohobycz the large town near her birthplace to live with Alicia’s maternal grandparents The Nazi-Soviet Pact meant their local area was taken over by the Soviets and Josef and Alicia joined the communist youth movement where she learned — and never forgot — how to sing such songs as Long live father Stalin They went to the local public secondary school where Alicia was taught art by the renowned Polish-Jewish artist Bruno Schulz a friend of her parents who owned works by the artist She recalled the shock of his murder by a Gestapo officer who shot him at random in the street His often sado-masochistic subject matter gave her nightmares when she was young but she was very proud to have been his pupil and indeed knew the importance of the town’s Jewish artistic heritage as it was also the home of the great 19th-century Jewish painter Maurycy Gottlieb Things changed dramatically in June 1941 when the Germans took over the area The family were moved into the town ghetto where Josef worked in the brick factory and Alicia on the construction of the new Gestapo headquarters because the officers liked to have pretty girls around them It was always dangerous and other girls were shot for no reason After the war when Alicia returned to the area she found among the rubble a photograph of herself at work One day Josef was rounded up and taken to the Janowska concentration camp where Until the end of her life Alicia treasured his school certificates that showed his academic prowess shows her and her brother looking out at the viewer in terror Alicia then began working with her parents in a factory the workers were all rounded up and imprisoned They knew that they would be taken to the nearby woods and shot Alicia was saved in remarkable circumstances whose tailor father made a suit for the head of the Gestapo Poldek was very taken with Alicia and claimed she was his wife so she was also released in which she depicts the moment she left her family The working there prepared an underground hiding place complete with toilet and a supply of dried food they managed to hide there for a week before moving on to another hiding place which Alicia paid for with a diamond ring her mother had sewn into her own coat She had thrust it into Alicia’s arms in their final parting moment the Weiss family decided to move to the USA but Alicia and Poldek’s relationship had deteriorated and Alicia chose not to accompany them She stayed on in Poland and met Izrael Natan Melamed They were married in Warsaw in 1946 by the Chief Rabbi of the Polish Army Alicia’s wedding jacket is in the archive of The Imperial War Museum The couple went to Paris in 1948 and then moved to London where her mother’s sister and family had fled before the war Izrael changed his name to Adam Adams and prospered as a businessman Alicia decided to enrol in evening classes but the classes were already full so she attended art classes instead Her talent was spotted and she went on to study at St Martin’s School of Art and then Sir John Cass College She was taught there by well-known teachers of the 1950-1980 period Maggie Hambling and clergyman John Pelling She showed regularly at the Society of Artists’ annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries and was a member of the Ridley Art Group The paintings she showed were vibrant and joyous a white mug with a heart on it reflecting her belief in a loving world decorating her pots with flowers and beautiful women when one of her works entered the Ben Uri Collection We became firm friends but I knew nothing of her early years encouraged by her friend the Bolivian artist Fernando Montes she painted her Holocaust memories but did not show them until the late 1990s in an exhibition to raise funds for Amnesty International She was immediately asked to exhibit the entire series at the Ark T Centre in Cowley She asked for my assistance in preparing for the exhibition I helped her write her story with a mixed sense of horror and disbelief that such things could have happened to one of the most optimistic positive and funny women I have had the good fortune to meet The Holocaust paintings were widely exhibited from then on and in 2008 two were acquired for the Imperial War Museum after being included in its exhibition Unspeakable Her works were regularly shown at Ben Uri and she had a solo exhibition at the London Jewish Cultural Centre in 2014 both recorded their stories for the Imperial War Museum’s sound archive Obituary Art Holocaust graphics and logos shall not be reproduced rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium AFP shall not be held liable for any delays one of Germany's most prominent industrialists and a man who saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust He arrived as an 11-year-old escaping anti-semitism and became a millionaire philanthropist Friday, 1st September 2017 — By Emily Finch Gaie Scouller with a photograph of a relief sculpture of Sir Michael HOLLOWAY’S Sobell sports centre – where work on a controversial trampoline park has started – was funded by a millionaire philanthropist who believed he “owed England everything” after escaping from anti-semitism which has provided indoor sports for more than 44 years who came to London with his wealthy oil-producing family in 1903 He attended Finsbury’s Central Foundation Boys’ School where according to his granddaughter Gaie Scouller he was a “diligent pupil determined to master the English language” He would always carry a dictionary with him and learnt 10 new words a day while maintaining proficiency in Russian Yiddish and Ruthenian – a little-used Ukrainian dialect The Finsbury school’s corridors are lined with photographs of famous former pupils ranging from jazz saxophonist Ronnie Scott to BBC presenter Reggie Yates Michael’s photo is set to adorn the walls following a recent discovery by the school that he was a former pupil Britain was a sanctuary for his Jewish family Michael would often recount the segregation he faced in his native Boryslav where Jews and non-Jews would be separated in the classroom But he also faced trouble at his new school in Finsbury when on his first day the school bully picked on him and challenged him to a fight He retaliated by knocking him out from behind and no one tormented him again Michael started importing leather goods and then electrical appliances Advertising campaigns were his strong point He sped down Oxford Street blasting out music from his imported radios in the car of his friend Gordon Selfridge He eventually went on to manufacture radios in Stonebridge when his original factory was bombed in World War II Business boomed through contracts with the Air Ministry and the admiralty Michael set up the Anne and Michael Sobell Trust named after the wife he married in 1917 following a courtship where they would go on dates wrapped in rugs on the top deck of a bus would dispense millions of pounds to help people in Israel and Britain “He once said that he owed England everything and that he wanted to give something back,” said Ms Scouller “He directed all donations from the trust until about five years before he died.” He received a knighthood in 1972 for his charitable work which included funding the first headquarters for Macmillan Cancer Relief a hospice in Oxford and an old people’s home in Kent He donated £1.1million – worth £12million in today’s money – towards the cost of the Sobell Centre in 1973 The Town Hall and the Variety Club of Great Britain also contributed to the £2million total Ms Scouller said she was unsure why her grandfather had funded the council-owned centre when he was not keen on sports other than horse-racing “Somebody must have come along with an idea he liked Indoor sport wasn’t available and very unusual I believe the centre was one of the first ones to open at a very subsidised rate and totally accessible for all,” she said Ms Scouller is a trustee of the foundation with her two children due to join her in two months the foundation now contributes to the running costs of charities and hospices Ms Scouller says she receives hundreds of letters a year asking for help the horse he owned with fellow businessman Arnold Weinstock He used to sit us on his knees and tell us a joke,” said Ms Scouller Sir Michael died in 1993 in Englefield Green