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- Overview
- NY Kletsker Cemetery Data
- Searching for KIRZNER
- UKR 1946
- Benari Memoir
- Kletsk to Zaostrovechye
- Recreating Kletsk
- Pshepyurko Interview
- Sonia's Places
- Gelfand Memoir
- Yizkor Book
- Contributors Only
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Elimelech Benari's Kletsk Memoir
A Last Look
We walked along the
streets which served as the borders of the ghetto. Everything has been
rebuilt, strange and estranged, only the misery of fifty years ago hasn't
changed...
Each of us sought
to find his former home and the disappointment was bitter. We went to
visit the Jewish cemetery. It also was erased from the face of the earth
like the life. A construction company had set up in its place and there
was no memory of gravestones, rather they were used for the "industry"
of whetting stones. Here and there among the dense vegetation appear the
frames of graves cast in cement and some solitary gravestones.
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| The Kletsk Jewish Cemetery (1). 1991. |
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| The
Kletsk Jewish Cemetery (2). 1991. |
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| Monument in the Kletsk Jewish Cemetery. 1991. |
We, the delegation of the few who survived, have returned with a feeling that we did something, however small, for the remembrance of our beloved -- our families and all the other members of the community. We accorded them, to the best of our ability, a final honour.
Elimelech Benari
Beit-Zera
Many thanks to Mr. Reuben Argon and his son, Uri, the managers of the Turico travel agency in Holon who did a great deal to help bring about the memorial service for the Kletsk martyrs.