TOWNS AND PEOPLE – DVINSK
TOWNS AND PEOPLE – DVINSK

Author(s): Moshe Amir (Bliach)
Subject(s): Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, History of Judaism
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Summary/Abstract: The Dvinsk to which memory returns is the famed City and Mother in Israel, teeming with Jews, hospitable beyond belief, bubbling with communal activities. The realisation that it has been silenced makes one quiver and shake; remembering what the murderers did to this creative centre and source of culture which no longer exists. The purpose of the present essay is to offer a memorial in order that future generations, offspring and descendants of those who once dwelt in Dvinsk, may know their forefathers and bear them in mind. For the ashes of our martyrs were turned into fertilizer for the fields. Their bones were ground into phosphates, the very hair of their heads was taken to be stuffed

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