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Presented by Mr. Shields
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WHEREAS, the Agency for Jewish Learning together with the United Jewish Federation is pleased to announce that on May 2, 2005 a local delegation of adults, many of whom will be educators, will be leaving Pittsburgh to participate in the March of the Living in Poland. 18,000 participants are expected at this years march, which will mark the 60th anniversary of the victory in Europe; and,
WHEREAS, there will be three survivors traveling with the group they are Cantor Moshe Taube, Herman Snyder and Sara Recihman. Sara, was saved by the Pulits family, a Righteous Gentile Family; and,
WHEREAS, Sara was born on July 1, 1942 in Yanova Dolina, Ukraine, the daughter of Shmuel and Miriam Gorodetser. When the Germans invaded the Ukraine in 1941, Sara's father fled to Russia and her mother, who was pregnant, stayed behind. After Sara's birth, her mother went into hiding. At six months of age, Sara's mother gave her to the Pulit family, who were Christian-Poles, because her mother could not care for her under the conditions in which they were currently living; and,
WHEREAS, in May 1947, Sara's mother's sister, Leah visited the Pulit family with the intention of taking her away from the family. Leah originally presented herself to the authorities as Sara's mother and the Pulit's refused to return Sarah. After much conflict between the Pulit's and Leah, Sara left and moved to Lodz, Poland – specifically to a commune preparing to go to Palestine. It was during this time that Sara was told that her mother had been killed just a few months before the war ended.
WHEREAS, Sara and her aunt met up with her father, who had survived the war in a Russian Prison camp. After a year in a Displaced Persons camp in Austria, Sara, her Aunt Leah, and her father moved to Israel. Her father always told Sara that she owed her life to the Polish family who took her in.
WHEREAS, this will be Sara's first time back to Poland in...
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