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The Charlotte Jewish News - August 2016 - Page 8 Hadassah Israeli Products Fair 3rd Annual Event, November 13 Charlotte Hadassah is an nouncing its 3rd Annual Israeli Products Fair, November 13 at Shalom Park. Last year, the Char lotte Chapter of Hadassah donated over $10,000 to the Sarah Wets- man Davidson Tower at Hadassah Hospital. Proceeds from this year’s event will again benefit this state-of-the-art facility, where all people - Israelis and Palestinians, Christians, Muslims, and Jews - are treated regardless of religion. We are in the process of secur ing vendors and individual donors who are enthusiastic about the im portance of “Supporting Israel by Buying Israeli.” Sponsors/ven dors will receive publicity and ex posure on promotional materials, as well as visibility on the day of the Fair. Additionally, all paid first time sponsors/vendors, and those donating raffle prizes will receive 50% off of the retail ad vertising rates for one ad in The Charlotte Jewish News (new ad vertisers only). Please contact Stacy Baum at schree@carolina.rr.com or Amy DeLoach at amybdeloach@ gmail.com if you are interested in learning more about our fantastic sponsorship opportunities. Again, we would love to have your participation at the fair. If you or someone you know has a connection to Israeli or local ven dors offering Israeli made items, Judaica, Jewish holiday themed items, and kosher foods, please contact Shellie Barer at s.barer@ yahoo.com to purchase a Fair table. Additionally, if you or your business are interested in donat ing a raffle prize for the general raffle, please contact Hilary Rosenbaum at dhrose4@ gmail.com. Remember, all first time vendors and businesses do nating raffle prizes, are eligible to receive 50% off of a first, one time, retail advertising rate in The CJN. Thank you to the entire com munity for your overwhelming support of last year’s Fair. We are very excited to gear up for another exciting event. See you at the Fair. ^ temple Israel Temple Israel's dynamic and growing religious school is still seeking teachers for the 2016-2017 school year. For more info, contact Rabbi Melene Kornsgold at hkornsgold@templeisraelnc.org A GREAT LOOKING WATCH WITH AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE. THE NEW CANFIELD CHRONO. IT’S JUST SMART ENOUGH.™ SHINOLA DETROIT W here Ailierieaii Is tiiaile. DAVID’SATD t f In The Village Shops at South Park Just Two Doors Doen from Crate & Barrel 704-364-6543 www.davidsltd.com Berlin Remembers (Continued from page T) the Rathaus, were Frau Kaiser, the curator of the exhibit interviewed me extensively and took photos. The next day we went to the German Holocaust Memorial, an imposing site of a large area of black coffin-like stones raked from knee high in the front to sev eral feet high in the back. When one stands in front of the stones, the view is to the ever larger stones, directly in view of the dome of the Reichstag. Very impressive, if one thinks of the history of the site. Any informa tion about the memorial is avail able in the Museum that is located under the Memorial. In the entrance to the museum is this quotation from Primo Lev: “It happened and therefore it can happen again, that is all we have to say.” After every one of our excur sions we of course stopped a the Track 17- deportation track in the middle of an upper class, suburban neighborhood. Memorial at Levetzow Strasse next Konditore (pastry cafe) for sustenance in the shape of the wonderful Torten (of course whipped cream on top). The next day we went to the Wannsee. It is sad that one of the most beautiful spots in the Berlin suburbs holds the spot were the most heinous crimes of the 20th century was conceived over drinks and canapes. The house stands in the center of the carefully maintained park that borders on the Wannsee. The house is unfurnished and contains mainly documents, charts, and photographs. I provided additional information to a group of English students, who were not quite pre pared to confront a real life sur vivor, a consequence of the deliberations of the Wannsee Con ference. After visiting the villa of Max Liebermann, Germany’s most fa mous Jewish painter, we were on our way towards town, when Bar bara, our guide, said al most, en passant, what do you know about Gleis 17 (track 17). Never heard of it, I answered. So we drove through the streets, lined with exclusive villas, and stopped at a spot, that looked like the platform for a freight train. Two sets of rails, one in each direction. At the edge of the plat form, a small marker with the word MAHNMAL (re minder, exhortation to re member). Along the two platforms in raised letters are the transport number and the number of people de parted from this place on October 18, 1941. There is an eerie silence in this place. The hub of the nor mal life of this exclusive suburb seems inaudible, as if there were a magic circle drawn around this space were many hundreds en tered the cattle cars that trans ported them to their death. Track 17 and a second deportation loca tion, Levetzov Strasse, the loca tion of a former synagogue, that also served as deportation loca tion, were the two most unforgettable sights of our journey. There were two more remarkable lo cations that told of the heroism of Berliners, who rescued Jews. The workshop of a blind brush maker, who by employing Jews in his workshop as “not ex pendable,” saved a large number of lives and next to that workshop, the Museum of the Res cuers, Berliners who res cued Jews at their own and their family’s peril. The rest of our trip consisted of fascinating locations, like the Re ichstag, reconstructed to perfec tion inside and out. Also drives through parts of Berlin, that, when I lived there prewar, were the to tally “wrong side of the track” and today are well-groomed young people’s quarters, a fashionable area to live. And of course every where in the city, along the river Spree that winds through it, the blooming chestnut trees that make a park of a plain street. The trip left us moved and ex hilarated and grateful to the Sen ate of Berlin, who had invited us to this wonderful trip. Berlin remembers the past and honors it. ^ Memorial sign on the lamppost. Translation: "Jews may only shop between 4-5pm. April 7, 1940. ”
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