Jar conjunto ko nuestro “Socios jar ar ntsuni” programa financiado ir nge ar UJA — Federación ar Nueva York, ar ne contará ko entrevistas 'rato ya sobrevivientes locales pa t'ode hño ar 'bede ya jä'i.. Gi entrevistas ar exhibirán jar galería Tabernáculo Hebreo “Experimentando 'nar pa hñäki ne ma'bu̲: Retratos enérgicos sobrevivientes ar Holocausto”. Ar galería abrirá yá puertas ar Mbehe 8 ar Nobyembre.
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(escultura 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.
Ja 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 Ya je̲ya. 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 ya je̲ya.
Nuna ar entrevista bí realizada ya Halley Goldberg ar ar mfeni Y s Partners in Caring ne pertenece ar YM&YWHA Washington Heights ne Inwood. Njapu'befi nuna hñei 'ñotho ar je̲ya 'bu̲ xi 'yot'i tanto ar ar ne Komo ar ar entrevistado xí estrictamente prohibido.. Obtenga mäs ungumfädi dige ar programa Partners in Caring nuwa: http://ywashhts.org/partners-caring-0
Tabernáculo Hebreo Galería Armin ne Estelle Gold Wingjar orgullosa asociación koar YM&YWHA Washington Heights ne InwoodDi invita jar nuestroNobyembre yá disyembre, 2013 Exhibir“Experimentando 'nar pa hñäki ne ma'bu̲: Retratos enérgicos sobrevivientes ar Holocausto” fotografías ne esculturas ar: YAEL BEN — ZION, PETER BULOW ne ROJ RODRIGUEZ. Jar conjunto ko 'nar hontho hontho jar memoriaya ar75º Aniversario de la Kristallnacht - la Noche de los Cristales Rotos'Befi ne Recepción ar Apertura ar ar Artista, Mbehe, 8 ar Nobyembre, 2013 7:30 hne.m.
'Nar hmä ar ar ne : ” Nxoge décadas, washington Heights yá Inwood ne ge, ne te̲ni komongu, 'nar refugio pa ga̲tho nu yá da buscan refugio, nt'emunsu ne da 'yo̲de. Xingu ya da ku̲t'i ya nuestras puertas ne participan HMUNTS'UJE programas xi vivido pruebas ne tribulaciones mi otho siquiera podemos ndi ndu̲i ndi mi.. Pa 'ra, hoki yá 'be̲hñä yá formarán 'nar xe̲ni ar nuna ar exposición, 'na esos horrores xi zo̲ho̲ da conocido ya jar ximha̲i simplemente komongu "El Holocausto" – asesinato sistemático 'rato millones judíos Europa.
Nugu̲je ja ar ne recordamos ar ndamäni, honrar mi vivieron ne murieron Nxoge Nunu̲ ar pa, ne salvaguardar majwäni pa ya 'mui futuras. Ya ar hño nugu̲ju̲ xkagentho ne hmunts'uje bätsi, debemos ungumfädi ya historias ga̲tho nu yá nä'ä xi experimentado ya males ar hñäki. Jawa lecciones da meya pa ar futuro. Ya entrevistas gi 'bu̲hu̲ documentadas ya Halley Goldberg, 'nar supervisor ar programa "Partners in Caring". Nuna ar programa vital mar tsa̲ jamädi 'nar generosa subvención ar ar UJA — Federación ar Nueva York, diseñado pa mejorar ja yá nthe ko ya sinagogas jar Washington Heights ne Inwood. “
Ma exposición arte Nxoge presenta retratos ne entrevistas sobrevivientes ar Holocausto, Hannah Eisner, Charlie ne Lilli Friedman, Perla Rosenzveig, Fredy Seidel ne Ruth Wertheimer, nga̲tho ya ne nuya ya Maxte Tabernáculo Hebreo, 'nar congregación judía da xingu ya judíos alemanes huyen ya nazis ne pe̲ts'i ar suerte ar ehe Amerika, unió da finales ar década 1930. 'Nehe, 'nehe honraremos bí sobreviviente ar Holocausto Gizelle Schwartz Bulow.- nänä ma artista Peter Bulow ne sobreviviente ár ñoho hñäki jar nxoge ximhai Yan Neznanskiy — tada ar Director Programas ar ar ne, Victoria Neznansky.
'Nar hontho hontho ar nsabdo, ko altavoces, jar memoria ar 75 ar pa ar ntso̲ni ar Kristallnacht (nxui ya cristales rotos) teni ar inauguración ar exposición Gold Gallery yá ne:Ya 'befi comienzan puntualmente ja ya 7:30 BÍ. Ga̲tho gi 'bu̲hu̲ invitados da wat'i.
Pa ar horario apertura ar galería wa da uni mäs ungumfädi, llame jar ar sinagoga da ar212-568-8304 wa nu'iHTTP://www.hebrewtabernacle.orgHmä ar artista: Yael Ben — Zionwww.yaelbenzion.comYael Ben — Zion nació jar Minneapolis, MN ne criado jar Israel. Ar graduada ar Programa nsadi Nxoge ya ar made ja ya Fotografía. Ben — Zion xi recibido ndunthe ar becas ne ar premios, mäs recientemente ar Fundación Puffin ne NoMAA, ne ár obra xi xi expuesta ir 'rangu̲di ne jar Europa. Xi publicado yoho monografías ár obra. 'Bu̲i Washington Heights ko ár ndo̲., ne yá gemelos.
Hmä ar artista: Pedro Bulow: www.peterbulow.com
Ma nänä nxutsi, xkí 'ma̲i escondido Nxoge ar Holocausto. A lo largo de ya je̲ya, ár mfeni, wa da imaginé ke mi xi ár mfeni, Xi tenido 'nar Nar dätä hño influencia ko ngeki. Nuna ar influencia ar refleja tanto ja ma nzaki jä'i Komo ja ma nzaki artística.. Dá 'bu̲i ar India, Viví nu'bu̲ mí ge 'nar bätsi pequeño jar Berlín ne emigré ja ya Mi'rangudi ko ma tada ar bätsitho 8. Dí 'ñehe 'nar Maestría jar Bellas Artes jar escultura. 'Nehe Dar receptor 'nar subvención nä'ä di permitirá ga hoki 'nar 'bede limitado bustos bronce sobrevivientes ar Holocausto.. Jaki ar mäte, gi ga japi ga pädi nu'bu̲ xi interesado jar 'mui nuna ar 'be̲fi.
Hmä ar artista :Roj Rodríguez: www.rojrodriguez.com
Ma komongu 'be̲fi refleja ma viaje ndezu̲ ar Houston, TX — ho dá ne crecí — bí Nueva York — ho, expuesto ár etnia, ar 'na'ño 'mu̲i ya ne ya socioeconómica ne ár visión ho̲ntho dige ya inmigrantes– Dá tini nt'emunsu renovado ya jár 'mui ngatho. Xta xi aprendiz fotógrafos xi hño establecidos, viajó nge ar ximha̲i extensamente ne colaboró ko xingu ya mpädi mäs xi profesionales jar hwähi. Ndezu̲ ar enero, 2006, ma carrera komongu fotógrafo Ndäse̲ ar xi convertido ja 'nar proceso ar asumir 'yot'e ya fotografía ya jä'i da surgen ma 'nar nt'ot'ise̲ da 'yo̲de ar nt'ot'e da compartimos jar ximha̲i ne ejercitamos ma creatividad komongu 'nar ga̲tho.
