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Now, more than ever, is an important time to remember our heritage and those who weren't able to celebrate their own bar mitzvah's due to conflict.

Harry celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on
11 May 2024 at Edgware & Hendon Reform Synagogue

Jechiel Dymant sadly perished in the concentration camps of Lublin, Poland. He never got to have a bar mitzvah. When I received my pack I was so surprised to have been paired with a Dymant, my great grandmothers maiden name. This made it even more important to cherish his memory, alongside 6 million of our ancestors, who never made it through the suffering at the hands of the Nazis.

 

Thank you Yad Vashem UK Twinning Project, I took great joy in sharing this with my family and friends on my special day and will continue to light a candle in remembrance of Jechiel every year on Yom HaShoah.

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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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