By COLlive reporter
A fascinating voyage following the milestones in the history of Polish Jewry up to its destruction during the terrible Holocaust, concluded yesterday.
150 students of 10th and 11th grades of the ‘Or Avner’ network of Jewish schools across Russia participated.
Special preparation classes were held to prepare the participants for the empowering experience that managed to create within the pupils a deep sense of Jewish pride and identity that will continue to accompany them for the rest of their lives, establishing their future identity as proud Jews.
The experimental pilot trip included visits to Jewish sites and Ghettos in Warsaw, Lodz and Krakow, a visit to the death camp in Auschwitz and an uplifting Shabbat in the famous ‘Izik’s Shul’ headed by the Shliach Rabbi Eliezer Gurarie that was addressed by leading lecturers.
“Tomorrow will never again be like yesterday,” one participant commented. “My entire approach to Yiddishkeit changed, I now feel a proud Jew.”
Following the trip’s success, the network’s administration is considering the possibility of expanding it in the future to include the rest of the students of the network from throughout the Former Soviet Union.
The program was produced by Fleishman VIP productions and the ‘Or Avner Foundation’ for Jewish education.
They should go then. More powerful.
Wher exactly is that bais hachayim?
wow
It’s so sad
I realize this May be nit-picking, but “youth” is plural here, sot he correct verb is “learn.” If it was a single youth, then it would be “learns.” Thank you…
Continue the good work!