כתבה על החבר יצחק טורנר ב- WALLA
czwartek, 16 kwiecień 2015 03:00
An article about Yitzchak Turner on Walla entitled:
"Do not forget us – Survivors remember the past and look to the future."
Holocaust survivors in Israel are getting fewer as time goes by. So does their testimony, which, told by somebody else would hardly be believed and nobody would listen to. Every one of the 185,000 survivors still with us has a unique story of his own. Post war life took them to different places, but whether affluent or poor, single or with a large supportive family, they all have one message:
"Do not forget where we came from and where you are going."
The part in the article relevant to our Yitzchak Turner is:
Name: Yitzchak Turner
Date of birth: 1922
Country of origin: Poland
Year of Aliya: 1946
Living in: Tel Aviv
Personal: widowed, father of two
I'll never forget
With the outbreak of the war, the Germans burned synagogues everywhere they got to. I actually remember their arrival in Będzin, where I lived and the setting fire to our synagogue with all the people in it. It was beyond anything I could watch. They went on setting fire to Jewish places and I escaped to the nearby church. The Germans fired at me and I was wounded but didn't feel it. I was treated in the church but was told by the priest that I could not stay there because if I am caught by the Germans in the church everyone in it, nuns and the priest will be murdered. He opened a back gate for me to the cemetery behind the church, where I spent the night. I reached the hospital the next day but was not allowed in. There was a doctor there who helped me and many other Jews and kept me there for a whole month to recuperate. When I made Alyia I took action for him to be awarded with "The Righteous among the Nations Award".
My message to you is:
"The gated were opened to us and we were told:"You are free." But people had nowhere to go and nobody waiting for them, a house to go to or a family. It is sad to say today the world hasn't changed. People are killed in many places and no one cares. I am afraid that a Third World War is only a matter of time."
Holocaust survivors in Israel are getting fewer as time goes by. So does their testimony, which, told by somebody else would hardly be believed and nobody would listen to. Every one of the 185,000 survivors still with us has a unique story of his own. Post war life took them to different places, but whether affluent or poor, single or with a large supportive family, they all have one message:
"Do not forget where we came from and where you are going."
The part in the article relevant to our Yitzchak Turner is:
Name: Yitzchak Turner
Date of birth: 1922
Country of origin: Poland
Year of Aliya: 1946
Living in: Tel Aviv
Personal: widowed, father of two
I'll never forget
With the outbreak of the war, the Germans burned synagogues everywhere they got to. I actually remember their arrival in Będzin, where I lived and the setting fire to our synagogue with all the people in it. It was beyond anything I could watch. They went on setting fire to Jewish places and I escaped to the nearby church. The Germans fired at me and I was wounded but didn't feel it. I was treated in the church but was told by the priest that I could not stay there because if I am caught by the Germans in the church everyone in it, nuns and the priest will be murdered. He opened a back gate for me to the cemetery behind the church, where I spent the night. I reached the hospital the next day but was not allowed in. There was a doctor there who helped me and many other Jews and kept me there for a whole month to recuperate. When I made Alyia I took action for him to be awarded with "The Righteous among the Nations Award".
My message to you is:
"The gated were opened to us and we were told:"You are free." But people had nowhere to go and nobody waiting for them, a house to go to or a family. It is sad to say today the world hasn't changed. People are killed in many places and no one cares. I am afraid that a Third World War is only a matter of time."
