Elimelech Benari's Kletsk Memoir

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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.

The Kletsk Jewish Cemetery (1). 1991.

The Kletsk Jewish Cemetery (2). 1991.

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.

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