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I felt good that I was keeping Lydia’s memory alive. It felt like doing a good deed for someone else.

Keira Edwards, brought extra meaning to her own Bat Mitzvah. She  twinned her Bat Mitzvah with Lydia Fischer, and designed a poster describing the family and life of Lydia, who perished aged 10, at Auschwitz in 1944.

Yad Vashem UK Foundation sent Keira and her family a folder of information about Lydia so they could research her story.

Keira made a demonstration board which was displayed by the Bimah during her Bat Mitzvah ceremony, and she also referenced the twinning during her Dvar Torah. Her portion was about the Ten Commandments, and she talked about how the Germans did not follow these during the Second World War.

North Tyneside Council’s Holocaust Memorial Event 2022

I was twinned with Lydia Fischer at the end of 2016 in the run up to my Bat Mitzvah and have felt a deep connection to her story because of this. With her only surviving family member having passed away not long before my twinning, I felt it to be important for me to continue to spread her story so it will never be forgotten. During the summer, I also participated in the Lessons from Auschwitz scheme and was a speaker about this in North Tyneside Council’s Holocaust Memorial Event 2022.

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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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