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I will be sure to honour her memory and be grateful for the opportunities I have been given.

I am very fortunate to be able to celebrate my Bat Mitzvah during the of March and I am participating in the Yad Vashem UK Foundation’s very special Shoah Twinning Project.

My Hebrew name is Chava and I have been twinned with a young, innocent victim of the Holocaust called Chaya Zaks. Chaya was born in 1932 in Lithuania and perished in 1941, therefore, tragically she did not live to celebrate her Bat Mitzvah.

This project is meaningful to me because I believe that it is so important not to forget what happened during the Holocaust and to always remember each and every Jew who perished and had their futures stolen from them in such a cruel and tragic way. I also lost family who were born in Lithuania and I think about how much this changed the course of the future and Jewish families.

It makes me so sad to think that Chaya was murdered at such a young age but I will be sure to honour her memory and be grateful for the opportunities I have been given.

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Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah kids are sharing their stories.

Jordan Pearlman Twinned
with Urichem Ziechnik

Jordan celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on 29 August 2020. He had a zoom with family and friends from London and all around the world on Thursday 27 August 2020. He was lucky enough to lein in Shul on Shabbat morning 29 August 2020.
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Joshua Newman Twinned
with Josua Boesenach

Joshua twinned with Josua Boesenach who was born in June 1931. He was deported age 12 to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. He never got to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah. “As I celebrate my Bar Mitzvah he will be on my mind."
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Leora Moher Twinned
with Alice Chana Grunwald

I had my Bat Mitzvah in July 2019. For my Bat Mitzvah, I twinned with Yad Vashem UK Foundation. They twinned me with a girl named Alice Chana Grunwald, a surname that my family also used. Sadly, Alice Chana did not survive to celebrate her Bat Mitzvah, as she perished at Auschwitz.
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Ella Kaufman Twinned
with Ruth Shafir

I was very happy to meet you at my home and that you wish to commemorate my sister Ruth. For your Bat Mitzvah, you have chosen a project to remember a young girl of about your age who perished in the Holocaust
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Barney Leboff Twinned
with Carol Smulovici

Barney Leboff, from Shenley wanted to do something more than leyn from the Torah for his Bar mitzvah, so he twinned his Bar Mitzvah with Carol Smulovici, a young Romanian boy who was murdered during the Holocaust.
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