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Although I stare at my computer screen in the comforts of my home, I see myself walking between glass display cases filled with thousands and thousands of shoes. Three wooden barracks that formerly housed innocent victims, mostly Jewish people, still house 185,000 shoes – men’s tie shoes, shoes for little, even tiny feet, flat shoes, high-heeled shoes. They are piled atop one another, vying for recognition, dusty and stiff with age, worn out, starting to fall apart – all empty shoes. In early July, I was walking in Majdanek,Welcome to Michael Kors Classic Tote Outlet online now. a German concentration and extermination camp outside of Lublin, Poland. I was looking at the shoes, but I was also searching for footprints.
I was in Poland from June 30 - July 7 as part of a fellowship from the Zechor Yemos Olam Holocaust Educator Training Fellowship Program under the auspices of Torah Umesorah and funded by the International Commission on Holocaust Era Insurance Claims. In addition, my husband, Rabbi Eliezer Gibber, and I received a generous stipend from the Jewish Alliance of Greater Rhode Island to participate together in this program. This trip was the culmination of a six-month, interactive, online course designed to train Jewish educators to teach Holocaust studies that includes both a Torah perspective and a breadth of historical knowledge.
I have taught a Holocaust studies class every other year since 2002 at the New England Academy of Torah to young women who are high school juniors and seniors.
My father, of blessed memory, was a survivor; his parents, siblings and family were not.
I feel that it is important for us to remember and never forget and to see that our children know and remember as well.
About 30 educators from all over the United States were on this trip. The question uppermost in our minds was, “Why are we here?”
The few days were intense, disturbing, indescribable. We visited three extermination camps, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau and Belzec. The vestiges of indescribable atrocities and horrors assaulted our senses. In Majdanek, there is a memorial of Jewish ashes, a mound of earth where fragments of human bones are clearly visible. In Tarnow, we walked in the darkness of night down a lonely road with dogs barking on either side of us to a simple fenced rectangle in the woods. This enclosure is a mass grave holding the bodies of 800 young children whose last footsteps were likely on that very same road.
At the same time, we also visited Lublin, the site of the famous Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin of Rabbi Meir Shapiro, who instituted the daily study of the Talmud, the daf yomi. We prayed at the gravesites of Torah luminaries dating to the 16th century and in famous synagogues that have been restore. Only a few synagogues survived the Nazi horrors, particularly in Krakow, a city that Hitler spared. Many of the participants had close relatives who survived and close relatives who did not survive the death camps. But even for those who had no immediate family, it was a deeply moving and powerful experience.
Nevertheless, we asked, “Why are we here?” We were all students of the Holocaust; we knew the statistics, we knew the stories. What dimension was added by standing on the once blood-soaked earth.
Majdanek is one of the few labor-extermination camps that remained intact because the Russians liberated the camp on July 23, 1944, before the Germans could destroy the evidence of their systematic atrocities. They found 450,000 shoes when they arrived. Majdanek housed warehouses where clothing and valuables taken from victims of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, camps established under Aktion Reinhard (Operation Reinhard, the Nazis’ code name for their plan to exterminate Polish Jewry), were sorted and stored and ultimately sent to Germany as part of the Nazis’ systematic plunder.
A gas chamber remains intact, complete with a peephole in the heavy wooden door through which the final moments of the unsuspecting victims could be relished. The crematoria ovens stand looming in a row. The human ashes were used to fertilize flowers and cabbages grown outside the building.. Germans used a pool of water heated by the crematoria for bathing. A short walk away, a grassy knoll rises and dips – it is the site of a mass grave where 18,000 Jewish people were killed in one day in the “Erntefest” (Harvest Festival) on Nov. 3, 1943. The Germans blared music to drown out the cries, but the locals from the Lublin area were able to watch the massacre with ease. The empty wooden barracks stand soulless.
We completed our tour of Majdanek, but we did not leave yet. One participant shared Torah thoughts and accounts from some individuals who had been transported to the camps. The program director recited the Kaddish as well as the prayer in memory of the departed.. In this way, we sought to connect to the footprints of those souls who walked through Majdanek as well as their shoes.
Why are we here? We are here to intertwine our peaceful lives with the horrors that shattered their lives. We perpetuate their memories and the footprints of our forebears who walked through the dark abyss with courage and faith until their bitter end. We walk in their very footprints. We stand in prayer in the very places where they stood in prayer and beseeched the Almighty for an end to human pain and suffering. We are here to preserve their footprints forever in the continuum of the chain of Jewish tradition and history of Jewish suffering. We are here to remember, and never to forget.
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Outspoken new reality star Abbie Thompson has revealed her greatest fear . . . being compared to the cast of Geordie Shore.
Abbie, 18, appears in the new BBC Three television series Shoplife, following 10 youngsters as they work at the Metrocentre in Gateshead.
But Abbie said she fears being tarred with the same brush as the hard-partying group in the controversial MTV show.
The shop girl is shown complaining she has to use high street makeup in the first episode, airing on Thursday.
She also describes herself as a “bull in a china shop” and confesses her love of material things.
The teenager, who lives at home in Chester-le-Street, County Durham, with her mum and a guinea pig, said she is worried about how she will come across.
She said: “I would hope Shoplife is not like Geordie Shore, although it does show what it is like on a night out in Newcastle.
“That’s one thing I am frightened for because a lot of people have asked if it is going to be like Geordie Shore, blah blah blah blah, and I would hope it is not.
“I am really anxious how I will come across because the trailer for the programme has me talking about liking material things.
“But all I buy designer is handbags and shoes, I don’t wear lots of make-up, I don’t wear fake tan. I do wear hair extensions but who doesn’t in Newcastle?
“So if that is the light I am trying to be shown in, then it’s going to be complete bullcrap, and it’s not me.
“I am quite outspoken, if I have an opinion I won’t be afraid to express it, because if you don’t say anything, nothing will get done.
“Bull in a china shop is right, but it depends on how you take it. Everything I say depends on how people take it.”
The series tells the stories of staff at the Metrocentre as they try to balance their hopes with the realities of working life, the minimum wage, and nights out. They include:
Abbie, who dreams of rising through the ranks at top fashion store Van Mildert and owning a Louis Vuitton handbag.
Slacker Joey Barrows, who escapes the sack from extreme sports shop Skate Shack for being late.
Chocolate salesman Tom Whalley, who dreams of leaving shop work to stage his own musical.
Abbie is shown fretting about her shopping habits and the chances of getting promotion to supervisor at the high-end retail shop where she works for the minimum wage and 1% commission.
She tells the cameras: “I am not a materialistic person, but I like materialistic things. At the moment, I literally have no money left. I normally get Est???e Lauder makeup, but I have had to go for high street make-up. I know it sounds really, like, shallow but it’s bloody upsetting. Is this what your life is like, Abbie, is it really what’s happening?”
Abbie is filmed claiming that her month’s pay is gone within a week, adding: “At the moment this is the skintest I have ever been. Ever, ever, ever.”
Joey, 19, is shown struggling to cope with his job selling sports kit and complains about his boss Lee Elliott, who usually works from home but keeps an eye on staff by CCTV.
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Co-owner Paula Elliott said: “Joey is still with us. The important thing is that the shop is shown in a good light. We want to help young people get a foot on the ladder. The CCTV is there as security.”
Tom, 23, of Whickham, said the series helped him achieve his ambition of staging a musical in his spare time after finishing work at Hotel Chocolat.
He said: “I had a meeting with someone from the BBC and a year later the filming started, so it was a long process.
“They filmed me at the shop, but the theme running through was what if my hobby and dream becomes the day job? They filmed a lot of me desperately trying to write, thinking about staging my musical, which eventually did happen.
“My favourite bit was the night at Boulevard, a cabaret venue in Newcastle, when the musical was staged. It was something I always wanted to do but never had the drive to push forward but, with the programme behind me, it was the push I needed.”
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During the thefts, Graham Thom (21) stole a laptop computer, a tablet device and a large quantity of money, which he carried out to help get cash to feed his drug habit, Banff Sheriff Court heard last week.
Thom, who appeared from custody, pleaded guilty to stealing the items and money from three different homes in the village in May and June this year.
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"The third complaint happened on June 30 while the accused was on bail.
"At 6.30pm the complainer returned to their house and noticed the laptop and Amazon Kindle were missing from the property.
"The police were contacted and about half-an-hour later the accused was traced in a field opposite the property with the items.
"He admitted having them in his possession and the items were recovered to the owner."
Thom’s defence agent Leonard Burkinshaw said: "He has had a significant problem with drugs for some time."
The court was told that Thom received good support form his family who had helped stem the issue, but it has raised its head again.
"On the last occasion he was off drugs he managed to hold down employment, but he got back into it and this resulted in the offences," continued Mr Burkinshaw.
"His brother and sister have attended court today and are desperate to see him get help for his drug problem, as is the rest of his family.
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The impending departure of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ought to prompt a rethinking of what is going on in Washington. Established in the wake of September 11 to better coordinate the instruments used to battle transnational terrorism, the homeland-security enterprise has been adrift for some time now. And it may not be drifting toward a good place.
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After fouling his fourth attempt, Inderjeet came up with his personal best in the next round to split the Russians — gold medal winner Alexander Lesnoi (20.30m) and compatriot Valeriy Kokoev (19.65m).
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While stabilising shoes are designed to help prevent injuries, new runners only need to opt for basic neutral shoes, according to a new study.
Researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark recruited 927 new runners and classified their feet as highly supinated, supinated, neutral, pronated or highly pronated.
Even though all the runners wore the same neutral running shoes, the adidas Supernova Glide 3, injury rates among the group over the course of one year were similar.
For the study, injury was defined as "any musculoskeletal complaint of the lower extremity or back caused by running, which restricted the amount of running for at least one week".
During the study, 252 runners suffered an injury.
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