Miaraka amin'ny antsika “Mpiara-miasa amin'ny fikarakarana” programa novatsian'ny UJA-Federation of New York, ny Y dia hanasongadina antsafa avy amin'ireo sisam-paty enina ao an-toerana mba hahatakarana bebe kokoa ny tantaran'ny tsirairay. Ireo dinidinika ireo dia haseho ao amin’ny galerian’ny Tabernakely Hebreo “Miaina ny fotoanan'ny ady sy ny ankoatra: Sarin'ireo Tafavoaka velona amin'ny Holocaust Fanahy”. Hisokatra ny zoma 8 novambra ny galeria.
Fredy Seidel lives in Washington Heights. Through this initiative, he has learned more about the Y and plans to become a member of the Center for Adults Living Well @ the Y.
Fredy Seidel(sculpture by Peter Bulow: WWW.PETERBULOW.COM)
After Kristallnact, the Seidels realized that it was no longer safe to stay in Germany so they decided to contact a Jewish agency in Breslau to begin preparations to leave. There was a Jewish organization that worked tirelessly to help Jews get out of Germany. The organization’s first priority was helping to get prisoners out of concentration camps, which was a very expensive task because the German government would not let prisoners leave the camps unless they were able to produce a roundtrip ticket out of the country. Fredy’s parents received a telegram at their synagogue on Saturday morning during services from this agency, stating that the agency found money for them to leave Germany and that they should come immediately. The agency had enough money to rescue Fredy’s parents, grandmother, and one of his brothers, Horst. Fredy’s oldest brother Rudi would be sent to Berlin to stay with an interfaith family in the hope that he would receive an affidavit to go to America. However, Rudi would never make it to America; while he was in Berlin, he was picked up from the street and sent to Auschwitz.
In 1939, the family left Bremerhaven, Germany and arrived in Shanghai a month later. After getting off the boat, the Seidel’s were taken to the ghetto that had been organized by the local Sephardic community. Fredy Seidel was born on May 1, 1941 in Shanghai, China. While in Shanghai, Fredy’s parents attempted to make a living by doing anything that they could to make money. The conditions were poor and made it very difficult to find work. The ghetto of 25,000 people was fed by a community kitchen that was also funded by the local Sephardic community. The ghetto had one synagogue, which had been built by Russian Jews. The synagogue became known as Ohel Moishe and that synagogue is still standing today.
The Jews who lived in Shanghai ghetto were housed in warehouses that were divided into 10 rooms. Each room provided shelter to 28 people. There were no walls; it was just one large room with bunk beds. Fredy’s mom would use a trunk and tablecloth to make a table for their meals. Conditions were not very sanitary. For example, the toilet was about 150 feet away from the room, so the Seidel family would keep pot under their bed in case they had to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. In the morning, they would take their pots to the toilet to dispose of the waste. There were two community showers, one for men and one for women; this did not allow for any privacy. Approximately 3000 people died from malnutrition and unsanitary conditions. Fredy recalls that you were not allowed to leave the ghetto without special permission from the police commissioner.
Not all of the refugees in the ghetto were Jewish. Fredy remembers that there were people who came because they had interfaith marriages. When asked about his community, Fredy states, “For me, I felt a very strong sense of Judaism and a very strong belief in G-d.” While living in Shanghai, Fredy recalls learning a lot about Judaism and what it means to have faith. He goes on to explain that a large portion of the refugees came from a town in Germany called Selisia.
The Jewish community in Shanghai was very tightknit and poverty stricken. People tried to make the best of their time there. The Jews created their own newspaper called the Yellow Post. Fredy recalls the Chinese being very helpful and shared what little they had with the Jewish community.
Fredy attended four Jewish schools within five years in Shanghai. He also attended a British school. Fredy recalls having to attend Anglican services while in the British school. There, the students were punished by the teachers with a bamboo stick, which they used to hit the children. This was very different from his experience in the Jewish schools. He described the Jewish schools as very nurturing. Since there were many refugee students left, a small school was created to accommodate them. There were three students to every teacher. This was not very conducive to learning because of the way the teacher’s attention was decided.
While in the ghetto, Fredy’s fathers tried making a living by collecting old razor blades, sharpening them, and trying selling them to the Chinese, but this did not work out. He then tried to become a shoemaker. Additionally, he was the cantor at Ohel Moshe synagogue.
The Red Cross came to Shanghai and distributed questionnaires to the refugees to figure out who was looking for their relatives. A year later, they came back and posted a large bulletin board on a wall with a list of names of the people they had been looking for. This is how Fredy’s father found out that his oldest son had been murdered in Auschwitz. He also found out that his parents and siblings had all been killed. Fredy remembers, “my father collapsed into the arms of my brother. That’s how people found out what happened to members of their family. It wasn’t the most sensitive way to find out.”
Eventually, the Chinese government told the Jews that they could not stay there any longer. In 1952, the Seidel’s returned back to Germany. They were one of the last thirty families to leave Shanghai. Fredy’s parents would get startup money to rebuild their lives once again in Germany.
When the Seidel’s got back to Germany, it had been divided into East and West Germany. Fredy’s parents were from a German town called Breslau, which had become a part of Poland, and was considered to be a part of West Germany so the restitution that was promised upon their return to Germany did not apply to them. This was financially devastating to the Seidel’s. This made the Seidel’s resort to smuggling good between East and West Germany in order to help them survive. The Seidel’s moved into a small apartment and Fredy’s father became a cantor again. On February 2, the Seidel’s received their visa to come to America. On February 22, Fredy’s mother was admitted to the intensive care unit where she would stay until September and would come out in a wheelchair. Fredy’s bar mitzvah was going to be in May. He was supposed to be the first boy with two Jewish parents to be bar mitzvahed in post-war Berlin. Many rabbis came from all over to be there for this occasion. The night before his bar mitzvah, Fredy and his father decided that they did not want to have the bar mitzvah without his mother being present and healthy again. He ended up waiting until after she was discharged from the hospital to have his bar mitzvah.
The Seidel’s were stuck in Germany for 7 years. In 1959, the Seidel’s made their way to America. The family decided to go to San Francisco to visit one of Fredy’s brothers before settling down in New York. What was supposed to be a two week trip turned into a yearlong stay. While in San Francisco, Fredy worked as a busboy and then a stock boy to try and help his family financially. After his family decided to move to New York, Fredy worked in Gimble’s selling stamps. He had dreams of attending Columbia University and after working at Gimble’s for a short while, his dreams were realized. Fredy enrolled at Columbia University at 20 taona. Although he would be drafted into the army while at Columbia, because of the tropical illnesses he contracted as a child in Shanghai he was not accepted into the army. In his last job, Fredy worked as a paralegal at a law firm for 20 taona.
Ity tafatafa ity dia notarihin'i Halley Goldberg avy amin'ny Y's Partners in Caring initiative ary an'ny YM.&YWHA avy any Washington Heights sy Inwood. Voarara tanteraka ny fampiasana an'ity fitaovana ity raha tsy misy ny fanekena an-tsoratra avy amin'ny Y sy ny mpanadinadina. Fantaro bebe kokoa momba ny programa Partners in Caring eto: http://ywashhts.org/partners-caring-0
Tabernakely hebreo Armin sy Estelle Gold Wing Galleryamin'ny fiaraha-miasa mirehareha amin'nyny YM&YWHA avy any Washington Heights sy Inwoodmanasa anao ho aminayNovambra / Desambra, 2013 fampirantiana“Miaina ny fotoanan'ny ady sy ny ankoatra: Sarin'ireo Tafavoaka velona amin'ny Holocaust Fanahy” miaraka amin'ny sary sy sary sokitra nataon'i: YAEL BEN-ZION, PETER BULOW sy ROJ RODRIGUEZ. Miaraka amin'ny serivisy manokana ho fahatsiarovanany75faha-th tsingerintaona Kristallnacht - ny alin'ny fitaratra tapakaSerivisy sy fandraisana ny fanokafana mpanakanto, ZOMA, 8 Novambra, 2013 7:30 p.m.
Fanambarana avy amin'ny Y : ” Nandritra ny am-polony taona maro dia nisy ny Washington Heights/Inwood Y, ary mbola mitohy, fialofana ho an'izay mitady fialofana, fanajana sy fifankahazoana. Maro amin’ireo izay miditra ao am-baravarantsika sy mandray anjara amin’ny fandaharantsika no niaina tao anatin’ny fitsapana sy fahoriana izay tsy azontsika eritreretina akory aza.. Ho an'ny sasany, izay handray anjara amin’ity fampirantiana ity, iray amin'izany horohoro izany dia fantatra amin'izao tontolo izao amin'ny hoe "The Holocaust" fotsiny. – ny famonoana an-kolaka Jiosy enina tapitrisa tany Eoropa.
Izahay ato amin'ny Y dia mahatsiaro ny lasa, omeo voninahitra izay velona sy maty nandritra izany, ary miaro ny fahamarinana ho an’ny taranaka ho avy. Ho an'ny tenantsika sy ny zanatsika, tsy maintsy mampita ny tantaran'ireo izay niaina ny faharatsian'ny ady isika. Misy lesona azo tsoahina amin’ny ho avy. Noraketin'i Halley Goldberg ny tafatafa, mpanara-maso ny fandaharana “Mpiara-miasa amin’ny fikarakarana”.. Ity programa tena lehibe ity dia natao tamin'ny alàlan'ny fanomezana malala-tanana avy amin'ny UJA-Federation of New York, natao hanatsarana ny fifandraisana amin'ireo synagoga ao Washington Heights sy Inwood. “
Ny fampirantiana zava-kanto iarahantsika dia manasongadina sarin-tsary sy dinidinika amin'ireo tafavoaka velona tamin'ny Holocaust, Hannah Eisner, Charlie sy Lilli Friedman, Voahangy Rosenzveig, Fredy Seidel sy Ruth Wertheimer, izy rehetra dia mpikambana ao amin'ny Tabernakely Hebreo, fiangonana jiosy izay Jiosy alemà maro nandositra ny Nazia ary tsara vintana tonga tany Amerika, nanatevin-daharana tamin’ny faramparan’ireo taona 1930. Ho fanampin'izay dia hanome voninahitra an'i Gizelle Schwartz Bulow ilay sisam-paty tamin'ny Holocaust- renin'ny mpanakanto Peter Bulow sy ny sisa velona tamin'ny Ady Lehibe Faharoa Yan Neznanskiy - rain'ny Lehiben'ny Programan'ny Y., Victoria Neznansky.
Fanompoam-pivavahana Sabata manokana, miaraka amin'ny mpandahateny, ho fahatsiarovana ny faha-75 taonan'i Kristallnacht (ny alin'ny fitaratra tapaka) mialoha ny fanokafana ny fampirantiana Gold Gallery/Y:Manomboka amin'ny 7 ora ny serivisy:30 hariva. Asaina hanatrika izany ny rehetra.
Ho an'ny ora fisokafan'ny galeria na raha mila fanazavana fanampiny dia antsoy ny synagoga ao amin'ny212-568-8304 na jereoSokajy://www.hebrewtabernacle.orgFanambaran'ny mpanakanto: Yael Ben-Zionwww.yaelbenzion.comYael Ben-Zion dia teraka tany Minneapolis, MN ary nobeazina tany Israely. Izy dia nahazo diplaoma tamin'ny Programan'ny Fianarana ankapobeny an'ny Foibe Iraisam-pirenena momba ny sary. Ben-Zion no mahazo fanampiana sy loka isan-karazany, vao haingana avy amin'ny Puffin Foundation sy avy amin'ny NoMAA, ary naseho tany Etazonia sy Eoropa ny sanganasany. Namoaka monographie roa momba ny asany izy. Mipetraka any Washington Heights miaraka amin'ny vadiny izy, sy ny zanany kambana.
Fanambaran'ny mpanakanto: Peter Bulow: www.peterbulow.com
Ny reniko fony mbola zaza, niafina nandritra ny Holocaust. Nandritra ny taona maro, ny traikefany, na izay noeritreretiko ho niainany, nisy fiantraikany lehibe tamiko. Hita taratra eo amin'ny fiainako manokana izany na eo amin'ny fiainako ara-javakanto. Teraka tany Inde aho, Nipetraka tamin'ny mbola kely tany Berlin ary nifindra monina tany Etazonia niaraka tamin'ny ray aman-dreniko tamin'ny taonany 8. Manana Masters in Fine Arts amin'ny sary sokitra aho. Izaho koa dia mahazo famatsiam-bola izay hamela ahy hanao busts varahina maromaro ho an'ireo sisam-paty amin'ny Holocaust.. Azafady ampahafantaro ahy raha liana amin'ny fandraisana anjara amin'ity tetikasa ity ianao.
Fanambaran'ny mpanakanto :Roj Rodriguez: www.rojrodriguez.com
Ny vatako dia taratry ny diako avy any Houston, TX – toerana nahaterahako sy lehibe – tany New York – aiza, mibaribary amin'ny foko misy azy, ny fahasamihafan'ny kolontsaina sy ara-tsosialy ary ny fomba fijery miavaka momba ny mpifindra monina– Nahita fanajana indray ny kolontsain'ny tsirairay aho. Nianatra tamin'ny mpaka sary efa niorina tsara aho, nitety an'izao tontolo izao ary niara-niasa tamin'ireo matihanina ambony maro eo amin'ny sehatra. Nanomboka tamin'ny Janoary, 2006, Ny asako amin'ny maha mpaka sary mahaleo tena ahy dia lasa dingana iray amin'ny fandraisana ireo tetikasa fakàna sary manokana izay nipoitra avy amin'ny fahatakarako manokana ny fomba izarantsika izao tontolo izao sy ny fampiasantsika ny fahaizantsika amin'ny ankapobeny.
