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Kawęczyn near Kłoczew – June 20, 2011

On 20 June 2011 the Lasting Memory Foundation dedicated a memorial over the burial site of 15 Jews killed in April 1944. The memorial, covered with the names of victims identified by the Foundation after 67 years, was unveiled in the presence of guests.







The meeting was started by the mayor of Kłoczew, Zenon Stefanowski, who welcomed the guests attending the ceremony: Alon Simhayoff- cultural attache of the Israeli Embassy in Warsaw, Michael Schudrich – the Chief Rabbi of Poland, Bożena Opioła – representative of Chancellery of the President of Poland, Sonia and Abram Hurman from Israel – survivors of the Holocaust in the area, Ester Kobialkiewicz from Israel, whose aunt is buried in the grave, Stanisław Jagiełło- chief executive of Ryki town, local authorities and priests, children from the local schools. Among the ceremony participants were also daughter and granddaughter of Jan and Józefa Kowalczyk – the Righteous among the Nations of the World who rescued 9 Jews, including Abram and Sonia Hurman as well as Pola and Chaim Kobialkiewicz, Ester’s parents. The ceremony was hosted by Zbigniew Niziński, the president of the Lasting Memory Foundation. He stressed the fact that the Jews buried on the spot used to be neighbors, local residents, bakers, tailors, traders. Two of the victims previously escaped from the train from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka. In their speeches, representative of the Israeli Embassy and representative of the Chancellery of the President of Poland referred to the Holocaust and assistance to Jews during the Extermination. Abram Hurman, born in the nearby town Wola Okrzejska, gave an account of his life during the war. Afterwards, the memorial stone was unveiled. The Rabbi Michael Schudrich sang a psalm together with the priests and said prayers, at the same time listing the names of victims. In a prayer, priest Andrzej Olszewski mentioned a 7-year-old girl Mieczysława Głodek killed together with the group of Jews at the time when her family sheltered them. The girl was fatally hit by a bullet and burnt in the family house. Her ashes have been scattered on a field next to which the grave of 15 Jews is situated. At the end of the ceremony everybody listened intently when the pupils of the Kłoczew School Complex declaimed verses accompanied by rain.



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