| LAS DĄBROWA near Okrzeja – November 20, 2013. |
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The ceremony was attended by a representative of the Chancellery of the Polish President, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, a Catholic parish priest, local authorities, the Foundation’s president Zbigniew Niziński, teachers and students. The rabbi and the priest prayed together, breaking the utter silence of the forest. An emotional performance of the students included poetry reading. The participants recalled the victims killed by grenades thrown into the dug-out by the Germans. Among the victims were two boys at the age of 12 – Moszek and Dawidek, men and women from the nearby villages (Huta Dąbrowa, Koryczany and Żelechów), Bryluś from the area of Łódź (earned his nickname from the fact of wearing glasses) and two brothers from Żelechów, called Maks and Sergej. There was also a doctor from Prague (name unknown) who came there after the uprising in Treblinka. It was he who saved an injured Jew of another group by removing his hand in the woods. The Foundation identified the names of three victims and inscribed them on the memorial plaque: Besser Chana, Besser Mosze and Rywka Milbrot. The ceremony guests brought back the memory of Sonia and Abram Hurman who on that tragic day were a few hundred meters away in another hiding place. They survived the war and moved to Israel, but many times visited their homeland to see the numerous friends they had there. Another survivor was the Jew from Żelechów whose hand had been amputated by the Czech doctor. He passed away in 2012. The Foundation’s activities were supported by the Honorary Citizen of Częstochowa Zygmunt Rolat, currently living in New York, whose father Henryk Rosenblatt was killed in the Treblinka uprising.
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In the middle of a forest near the town of Okrzeja, at the burial place of 13 Jews killed by German soldiers, the ceremony of unveiling a memorial set up by the Lasting Memory Foundation took place. The victims were murdered in January 1944 as they were hiding in a forest dug out. 
