Twinning Stories

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.

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

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

I have decided to twin with a young victim of the Holocaust who, tragically, was unable to celebrate this milestone in Jewish life, and who happens to be a distant relative of mine.

Louis Kirsch twinned his Bar Mitzvah, using the occasion to remember Jeno Breuer - who was born in Hungary in 1931 and perished in the Holocaust before he could turn 13.

Now that I am a guardian of Nutek’s memory, I will make sure he is never forgotten, and when I will read in shul, I will do it partially also for him.

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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.

‘It is amazing to share my Bar Mitzvah with all of you. But now, I want to tell you about a special boy who never had the chance to become bar mitzvah. …

For my son, who is living in the “I” generation — iPad, iPhone, and “I want” — it’s particularly important to connect to his roots, and consider th…