Twinning Stories

I feel incredibly lucky and privileged to have found Malinka’s relatives and know that she will be with me on my Bat Mitzvah journey

The Yad Vashe…

Maisie and I researched everything we could and tracked down a best friend of her 'twin'.

I took part in Yad Vashem UK’s Twinning project.…

Our daughter Emily Maia Lenchner had her Bat Mitzvah ceremony at Chigwell & Hainault Synagogue on 21 July 2018. 

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.

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…