Page 18-THE NEWS-May 1991
Pesach was a Very Excitins Time at Lubavitch
Pesach was an exciting time
at Lubavitch School! Through
storytelling, pictures and arts
and crafts, the children learned
the story of the Exodus. By using
props and dramatization, the
boys and girls actually recreated
and experienced that special
night.
The senses of sight, hearing,
touch, taste and smell enabled
the children to learn the fourteen
steps of the Seder. They made
matzah at the Model Matzah
Bakery. They also chopped the
ingredients for charoses and
grated marror. They were clean
ing experts as they cleaned their
classrooms for Pesach. There
was much excitement as they
then searched for chometz. Of
course, it wouldn't have been
Pesach without the children
making their own Seder plates
and learning the four questions
— the Mah Nishtanah.
The kindergarten and first
grade students culminated their
learning by inviting their parents
to join them for a Model Seder.
The Model Seder showed that
the students were real Seder
Super Stars.
Treblinka Death Camp
Railcar Installed in
U.S. Holocaust Museum
Children practice baiting matzoii at Chabad House.
Andrea Ellis watches daughter Monica Ellis-Elsner reciting Kiddush at
model seder.
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Susan and Henry Rabinovich with daughter Shaina at model seder.
Happy
Mother's Day
By Dara Goldberg
A German railcar that was
used to transport thousands of
Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto
to their deaths at the Treblinka
killing center during the Holo
caust has become the first arti
fact to be installed in the par
tially constructed United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The railcar, donated to the
Museum by the Polish govern
ment after the railcar's Holo
caust service was authenticated,
is one of a handful of its kind
still in existence. It arrived in the
United States from Poland in
July, 1989, and underwent a one-
year conservation process that
j*estored it to its wartime appear
ance.
Early on it was evident that
the five-story Museum would
have to be built around this large
artifact. Architects, conserva
tors, exhibition designers and
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construction site staff worked
closely for months to coordinate
the installation. The timing was
critical. The move had to be
made after the third floor con
crete had set enough to hold the
weight of the car, but before the
fourth floor concrete would be
poured—a window of only a few
days.
In the permanent exhibition
the railcar will not only represent
its own sordid history, but will
also symbolize all the forms of
deportation to camps during the
Holocaust—passenger trains,
buses and vans as well as freight
cars—the Nazis employed to
carry out the “final solution.”
When the permanent exhibi
tion is completed, the railcar will
stand empty on railroad tracks
that came from Treblinka, where
750,000 Jews were gassed to
death. Following the Ghetto
segment of the exhibition, vis
itors will be told the story of
deportation through photo
graphs, maps, artifacts and text
before they enter the railcar.
Visitors may than walk through
the railcar on a wooden platform
inches above the car’s floor. No
one will walk directly on the
floor of the car.
When visitors emerge on the
other side, they will find them
selves facing a black and white
wall-sized photo of the infamous
Dr. Mengele selecting who
would live and who would die,
and then they will enter the Mu
seum’s exhibition on the world
of the concentration camps.
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