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Jane
- Jan 16
Tender moments
21.8.21 Music has always been, and still is, a shared love between Mum and Gil. Together they quietly hum melodies, concluding with one of mum's favourites -- the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from the opera, Nabucco, by Verdi.
Jane
- Jan 2
A singalong for Yasmin
30.9.20 Mum is alway part of any occasion. Here we are performing a birthday song for Yasmin. The singers: Bee, me, Marysia, Coby and Gil. Sisira is the cameraman.
Jane
- Jan 1
Marysia... today is your birthday!
1.1.22 Mum always said she was born in 1924. A few years ago, her friend, who worked at the Holocaust Centre, checked the Łódź Ghetto records that showed her date of birth is the 20th of October 1923. At this stage of her life, a year older or younger doesn't matter anymore, but it's still an interesting fact. So today she is 97 or 98. Mum's birthday has always been around the time of Simchat Torah, the Jewish festival that celebrates the beginning of the reading of the Tora
Jane
- Jan 1
A light-bulb moment
1.1.22 About 6 months ago, while tidying up my bookshelf, I came across a folder of mum’s life stories before and during the war. They were part of a collection of interviews from 2006 carried out by Adele Hulse. Adele worked for a programme called ‘Write Your Story’ run by the Lamm Jewish Library of Australia. The programme guides members of the Jewish community, mostly Holocaust survivors, to write and publish their autobiographies. Adele’s interviews with mum stopped midwa