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In
August 2008 our Fürth born friend and rijo’s
most prolific guest author Willie Glaser undertook an extensive
research and commemorative trip to places in Poland connected
to his family’s tragic history: Oswiecim (Auschwitz),
the town of his mother’s birth but also where his
father was murdered ruthlessly by the Nazis in the infamous
concentration camp whose name still overshadows the entire
region, Izbica in the eastern part of the country, a transit
camp during the German occupation to which his mother and
three of his siblings were deported from Fürth in March
1942, and finally the extermination camps of Belzec and
Majdanek.
This is the photographic record of his travels from which
he brought back new pieces of knowledge about the probable
fates of the members of the Glaser family and special memorabilia:
ashes from the crematoria of Belzec, which were buried symbolically
on the cemetery of his congregation in Montreal.
We want to thank Willie Glaser for sharing these pictures
and his report (see links below) with us thus giving many
people who cannot travel to those places themselves the
chance to see how they look like today given their importance
in the persecution and mass murder of Franconian Jewry.
rijo
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