Holocaust Memorial Day: January 27, 2008
On
Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January 2008, The Jewish East End
Celebration Society, supported by the Borough of Tower Hamlets,
organised a very special commemoration in the East London Central
Synagogue in Nelson Street, London E1. Representatives from all
faiths spoke movingly on the significance the day had for their
communities. Guest speakers included Kinderstransport refugee Henry Glanz, and East End actor Barry Davis. Two fine Klezmer musicians
played appropriate music, including 'Das Partizanen-Lid' The
song of the Partisans - written in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943. An English translation of the original
Yiddish is below.
The plaque on the left is in the East
London Central Synagogue. It belonged originally to the Sons of
Brichtan Synagogue in Bromhead Street and is a memorial to the 6,000,000
Jews murdered by the Nazis. Double click to enlarge
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Seven memorial candles are lit representing people of all races and creeds who have suffered genocide
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Kinderstransport refugee Henry Glanz tells of his family's ordeal
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Playing 'Das Partizanen-Lid' - The Song of the Partisans. Written in the Vilna Ghetto in 1943
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Das Partizanen-Lid - The Song of the
Partisans |
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You must not
say that you now walk the final way |
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Because the darkened heavens hide the blue
of day. |
| The time that
we've longed for will at last draw near, |
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steps, as drums, will sound that we are here. |
| From land all
green with palms to lands all white with snow |
| We now arrive
with all our pain and woe. |
| Where our
blood sprayed out |
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and came to touch the land, there our
courage and our |
| manhood rise
and stand. |
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