A Homecoming
The Perelmuters in Poland
This week on edJEWcation we do something a but different, we discuss the vacation the Rabbi and ChayaLeah took. Ok, that may be underselling it a bit.
In World War Two, roughly 90% of the 3 million Jews living in Poland at the time were murdered…the Rabbi is a child of two of those survivors. To commemorate their family and all the deceased Polish Jews, the Perelmuter family organized a family trip back to Poland to visit the places where they died and lived.
On this episode we discuss:
The Perelmuter’s family connections to Poland and the Holocaust
Their visits to Auschwitz, Krakow, Lublin and Warsaw
Cultural observations and heartbreaking stories from their travels
The literal and proverbial Jewish graveyards they visited
The resilience of Jewish identity and culture
The complexities of faith for the survivors
The fact that we won
If you want to check out my t-shirt homage to Douglass Murray, you’ll need to watch the video version of the episode on Spotify or check out our YouTube page.
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I listened to this podcast right after watching Francesca Albanese and the other guests on Piers Morgan, and it made her position even more appalling. How dare they accuse Isreael of genocide? What happened in Poland was genocide. They have no respect, no idea, no conscience. Thank you for this very moving podcast and, yes, you have definitely won and should be proud of it!
I am listening. I told my mother about this. We went to Poland in 2006 and went to Krakow too, and I also remember that weird feeling, being in the Jewish Quarter. At that point, it was just being restored, but it was very, very creepy.
And I think the problem with Poland is, yes, its Catholic citzens were victims of the Third Reich, for sure. But they also did a great job of getting rid of pretty much all the Jews who came back after the war. My grandfather got off the train in his hometown after the war, and barely stayed because other Jews who'd come back had been killed.
My aunt's former fiance, he was from Lodz, and his mother survived the ghetto and then Aushwitz. It's so very odd, because I think it was Rumkowski who headed the ghetto, and as horrible as what he did was, it did mean the ghetto was liquidated so late that a lot more people from Lodz survived.
About the cold. I went to McGill and when my mom visisted me in January, stupidly, she was like, 'I have not experienced cold like this since Poland." But she did have a good jacket this time.