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I found this really sad. To honour Chaim’s memory, I will light a candle every year

Leo celebrated his Bar Mitzvah on
25 March 2023 at Radlett United Synagogue

Knowing how lucky I am to celebrate my Bar Mitzvah, I have twinned it with a boy who perished in the Holocaust before his 13th birthday. His name was Chaim Felsenstein – we share a Hebrew name. Chaim was born in 1929 in Korolowka, Poland, and now part of Ukraine. One third of the village population was Jewish then. Chaim, his parents and grandparents all died in the ghetto of the nearby town, Borszczow. Nearly the entire Jewish population of Korolowka died either in the ghetto or in Belzec concentration camp.

I found this really sad. To honour Chaim’s memory, I will light a candle every year

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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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