Israeli Police delegation joins March of the Living

Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino: "We will march in the place designed to destroy the Jewish people, standing tall in our Israel Police uniforms, and we will vow: Never again" • Delegation reunites Holocaust survivor with Polish woman who saved him.

 An Israel Police delegation of 185 policemen, officers and cadets arrived in Poland to take part in Monday's annual March of the Living. The police officers, led by Police Commissioner Yohanan Danino, will march from Auschwitz to Birkenau, which together comprised the largest Nazi concentration camp complex built during World War II.

"I was given the privilege of marching with you," Danino said to the delegation on Sunday. "We will march with the Polish police commissioner into the Nazi inferno. With feelings of pain and shock permeating all of us, we will also feel the pride and true honor of belonging to the police force of a Jewish state, fiercely defending the security and the values of democracy, equality and justice for all citizens, regardless of religion, race and gender. We will march in the place designed to destroy the Jewish people, standing tall in our Israel Police uniforms, and we will vow: Never again."

Danino went on to say that "Participating in the March of the Living further demonstrates to all those present the importance of the commitment and responsibility -- to remember and never to forget."

Earlier in their trip, the delegation visited Treblinka extermination camp, where most of Warsaw's Jews were murdered, as were hundreds of thousands of Jews from all over Europe. The delegation then went to Majdanek concentration camp, visited  Krakow  and on Sunday, went on a tour through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

While visiting Auschwitz, the police officers heard the testimony of 88-year-old Holocaust survivor Michael (Miki) Goldman. Goldman was taken to Auschwitz when he was 14. His parents and siblings were killed, but Goldman managed to escape during a death march and was taken in by a Polish family.

Later, he moved to Israel and joined the police force. Goldman joined Bureau 6, the special police unit dedicated to interrogating Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann.

The police delegation surprised Goldman by inviting Stepha Razner, the Polish girl who took Goldman in the day after he escaped from Auschwitz, saving his life. Goldman and Razner had an emotional reunion decades after their first fateful meeting.

In recent years, the Israel Police has sent four delegations annually to Poland. "Policemen who participate in the march come back as changed individuals. They are much more sensitive to people and they have a new understanding of how important the work they do is," Police Human Resources Division head Maj. Gen. Yaron Be'eri said.

Each year, thousands of people -- including public figures -- from Israel and around the world, participate in March of the Living
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The Holocaust Industry

The Holocaust Industry

2011. Search the Jewish magazine Commentary, which is a kind experienced boom of the seventies, shows 993 articles on the subject of the Holocaust. Daily newspaper Jerusalem Post, Israel's best-selling English newspaper, the Holocaust tackles in 1495 articles. Holocaust industry obviously does not stop its production facilities. As the whole story began, when and why they actually appeared intensely the memory of the Holocaust?

Norman G. Finkelstein in his book The Holocaust Industry explains the circumstances in which the Jews decided to "remember" the Holocaust and the way it has thrived so-called Holocaust industry, ie the purposes for which the Holocaust is used in the past few decades. Finkelstein is an American-Jewish historian, a Ph.D. from Princeton, Department of Political Science. For many years studying the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the author of six books. Finkelstein public appearances caused numerous controversies about his life was taken and documentary American Radical. His parents survived the Holocaust, which is often mentioned in order to gain the legitimacy, because, unfortunately, otherwise hardly criticize the policies of Israel and American Jewish elites.

                                                Finkelstein, artthreat.com


  The Holocaust and the United States - silence 

According to Finkelstein, the Nazi Holocaust is almost the only issue that still has echoes in the university classroom, but until recently the Nazi Holocaust is hardly existed in American life. Not just Americans in general, but also American Jews ignored the Nazi Holocaust. The standard explanation is that the Jews were traumatized by the Nazi Holocaust, and suppressed the memory of him. But Finkelstein says in the conclusion there is no evidence. The real reason for public silence was conformist politics of American Jewish leadership and the political climate of post-war America. And on the domestic and international level American Jewish elites have adapted to the official U.S. policy. Germany has since 1949 been a crucial U.S. ally in the conflict with the Soviet Union, so the final solution was taboo for the American Jewish elite. American Judaism appealing to the Nazi holocaust in a specific context - in an attack on the USSR, there was an equalization of the Nazi final solution to the Russian anti-Semitism, which was reflected in statements such as"Stalin would succed where Hitler failed".
    
  Reversal in 1967 - a phenomenon of the Holocaust Industry

Everything changed with the Arab-Israeli war in June 1967. The standard explanation for this transformation is that the extreme isolation and vulnerability of Israel during the war in June revived memories of the Nazi extermination. However, the position of the leading American Jewish organization has followed the official U.S. policy in its views toward Israel. Only 1 in 20 American Jews had a desire to visit Israel before June 1967 Regardless of their political orientation, the American Jewish intellectuals proved to be especially indifferent to the fate Isarel. Ironically, as the only Noam Chomsky and Hannah Arendt commented on the position of Israel before 1967. Then came the June war. Under the impression of the superiority of his forces, the U.S. has decided to do Israel, its strategic confidant. Zionism arose from the assumption that assimilation is futile dream, that the Jews are always seen as a potential unfair foreigners. To resolve this dispute Zionists have tried to build a homeland for Jews.

                                   Israeli-Palestinian conflict, flickr.com



Favorite position again after the birth of the Jews in 1967 was implicitly comparing the open support of Israel, who allegedly threatened from all sides, with the timidity of American Jews during the Holocaust. In order to protect its strategic footing, American Jewish elites "remembered" the Holocaust. Holocaust industry emerged only after a striking display of military superiority and flourished in parallel with the final Israeli triumphalism. Ideological altered, the Holocaust has proven to be the perfect weapon to disable the criticism of Israel. Finkelstein argues that the concerns expressed in remembrance of the Holocaust was just as artificial and expressed concern for the fate of Israel. 
"When the Holocaust was the freshest in the memory of American leaders, the first 25 years after the end of the war, the U.S. was the least ready to assist Israel. U.S. to help Israel has not changed from a small splash in the real flood in the moment when Israel is considered weak and vulnerable, but when he showed his strength in the Six Day War. "

  The Holocaust and identity - "Jews are better"

Each identity is grounded in a particular historical oppression. Accordingly, the Jews sought the identity of the Holocaust. However, among groups that have declared that they are victims, including African Americans, Latinos, indigenous American, only Jews are not inferior in American society. In fact, identity politics and the Holocaust have not caught root among the Jews because of the victim, but because they are not victims. Just as many Jews were kept at a safe distance from Israel when it was inappropriate and became born again Zionists when it became an advantage, tao many concealed their ethnic identity until it was inappropriate to become re-born Jews when became an advantage. Finkelstein says the story of worldly success of the Jews with the main, perhaps only the dogma of their newfound Jewish identity - the mentality of "the Jews are better". The Holocaust has been used to justify the Jewish choseness.

                                           Holocaust industry, google.com


  "The new anti-Semitism" and tensions with African-Americans

By the end of the 1970s anti-Semitism was no longer a major factor in American society. However, Jewish leaders began to alarm the fact that American Jews are threatened by a powerful "new antisemitism". For American Jewish organizations that designed the new anti-Semitism hysteria for Multi-link was useful. Raise the price of Israel as a last resort if they need it to American Jews. Due to shortage of anti-Semitism erupted in recent years a strong rivalry between the major Jewish "defense organization" - ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center. What are American Jews achieved greater material success, the more they neared the political right. The Jews were all conservative in politics and the economy, which has led to rising tensions between Jews and African Americans. "It is apparent that the evocation of persecution from the past draws attention to the criticism in the present. In addition, the system envisioned Holocaust anti-Semitism as a strictly irrational hatred of Jews. Exclude the possibility that bias against the Jews can be grounded in a real conflict of interest. "manage those who are least able to defend yourself, it's real content returned to the courage of American Jewish organizations, which could be seen in relation to African-Americans, says Finkelstein.

                       Finkelstein, American radical, rottentomatoes.com


Holocaust industry was born in 1967. He lives to the fullest the last 44 years. When you are going to die and can even die in a world that is constantly, for various reasons, frantically grabs for the past? Each new wheel in the production of this industry, the new depreciation and shameless prostitution of all those to whom the Holocaust had nothing to do with political profitability and financial success, those whose lives were erased painful move, suddenly and without question.

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The Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "extermination camps" or "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories." German SS and police murdered nearly 2,700,000 Jews in the killing centers either by asphyxiation with poison gas or by shooting.

CHELMNO, BELZEC, SOBIBOR, AND TREBLINKA

The first killing center was Chelmno, which opened in the Warthegau (part of Poland annexed to Germany) in December 1941. Mostly Jews, but also Roma(Gypsies), were gassed in mobile gas vans there. In 1942, in the Generalgouvernement (a territory in the interior of occupied Poland), the Nazis opened the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinkakilling centers (known collectively as the Operation Reinhard camps) to systematically murder the Jews of Poland. In the Operation Reinhard killing centers, the SS and their auxiliaries killed approximately 1,526,500 Jews between March 1942 and November 1943.

AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

Almost all of the deportees who arrived at the camps were sent immediately to death in the gas chambers (with the exception of very small numbers chosen for special work teams known as Sonderkommandos). The largest killing center was Auschwitz-Birkenau, which by spring 1943 had four gas chambers (using Zyklon B poison gas) in operation. At the height of the deportations, up to 6,000 Jews were gassed each day at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Over a million Jews and tens of thousands of Roma, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war were killed there by November 1944.

MAJDANEK

Though many scholars have traditionally counted the Majdanekcamp as a sixth killing center, recent research had shed more light on the functions and operations at Lublin/Majdanek. Within the framework of Operation Reinhard, Majdanek primarily served to concentrate Jews whom the Germans spared temporarily for forced labor. It occasionally functioned as a killing site to murder victims who could not be killed at the Operation Reinhard killing centers: Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka II. It also contained a storage depot for property and valuables taken from the Jewish victims at the killing centers.

The SS considered the killing centers top secret. To obliterate all traces of gassing operations, special prisoner units (the Sonderkommandos) were forced to remove corpses from the gas chambers and cremate them. The grounds of some killing centers were landscaped or camouflaged to disguise the murder of millions.

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Wiesel, Elie. Night. Trans. Marion Wiesel. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006.

Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz. Trans. Stuart Woolf. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

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Arad, Yitzhak. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Berenbaum, Michael, and Yisrael Gutman, editors. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1998.

Chrostowski, Witold. Extermination Camp Treblinka. London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2004.

Delin, Grant. Lebensraum: Extermination Camps of the Third Reich. London: Westzone Publishing, 2001.

Hilberg, Raul. The Destruction of the European Jews. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003.

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Schelvis, Jules, and Bob Moore. Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp. Oxford: Berg, 2007.

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Stephen Darori on the Holocaust : A Letter to My Daughter Kim before she embarks on ...: A Letter to My Daughter Kim before she embarks on on the March of The Living... Dearest Kim, The March of the Living is an extraordin...

Stephen Darori on the Holocaust : A Visit to Nazi Concentration Camps 42 years ago ....

Stephen Darori on the Holocaust : A Visit to Nazi Concentration Camps 42 years ago ....: t's horrifying, enraging, affirming, soul crushing, isolating, enlightening and a host of other emotions I'll continue to sort out ...

A Visit to Nazi Concentration Camps 42 years ago ... Kim, I wrote my memories and you can digitally record them now for Social Media's conscience .

t's horrifying, enraging, affirming, soul crushing, isolating, enlightening and a host of other emotions I'll continue to sort out over time. 

I visited Treblinka first - northeast of Warsaw, Poland. It was desolate and eerie. We were the only people there for the entire time we visited other than the couple manning the museum. 

They have a very small free museum with a few artifacts and you can go on a self led tour even using your car to drive right INTO the camp. First, we parked on the edge and walked in. Then as it got colder and darker, we drove the car carefully around the inside. The Germans tried to destroy all evidence but foundations of the barracks and officer's quarters remained. They've used very modest wooden plaques to identify the various barracks. 

They look like this:

It is surrounded by a huge forest on almost all sides. Isolating and deafens out any noise outside of the camp. They've also constructed a huge rock memorial over the giant cremation pit. Some rocks have names and life dates. Some are blank and piled with other rocks. People have brought rocks from all over the world with prewritten messages in sticky paint or permanent marker to leave nestled into the nooks and crannies of the giant monolith in the center. 

Next, I visited Auschwitz near Krakow, Poland. It is the most touristy and most rushed experience I had, but it is the most intact and has the most artifacts including massive rooms of human hair, children's shoes and clothes, and various grooming items. Although I REALLY disliked being rushed and not being able to process the experience, you really get a visual idea of how massive the place was. Then Birkenau blows you away. Rows and rows of barracks as far as you can see and although the gas chamber was blown up, portions remained intact. It's the iconic place to go and you'll recognize the arrival gate from Holocaust movies and books. 

I also found it a bit ironic that the sticker you have to wear the entire time you are in Auschwitz is bright yellow:

I'm not sure if it is intentional or not, but my first thought was: "Bizarre. You still need a yellow badge to get in. At least it's not a star."

Finally, I visited Dachau in Bavaria, Germany. It was a mix between the two. It has a larger museum, lots of intact barracks, and guided tours. But you can also go on a self guided tour with and audio guide, if you want. When you go to the back of the camp, you can walk through a gas chamber that was used for testing next to a room of ovens. 

Here's a picture of the rather unassuming room and door leading to the chamber: 

It's surreal to just be able to walk in and walk out at will. There's also a winding path to the right of that building that has two massive memorials filled with ashes. I don't know why but that's the only time I cried out load and continuously  at any of the camps. Maybe it was because I was alone or maybe there was just something about that spot. It was powerful. On the same winding path as the memorials are the execution walls where people were executed by firing squad. There's still bullet holes in the walls. 

One thing that was disappointing about Dachau was one of the memorials on the outside wall near the museum has incorporated ALL the "badges" of those who were sent there (Jews, Poles, political prisoners, Gypsies, etc) but refused to incorporate the pink triangle badge worn by homosexuals. It seemed disrespectful and petty, regardless of the views (in the 1960s) on homosexuality in Germany. 

There's dozens, if not hundreds of camps and sub camps to be seen if one wishes. I believe Dachau had a huge map of all the camps throughout Europe. You won't believe it until you see it. 

If I had to suggest only one, especially for people who don't know a lot about the Holocaust, go to Auchwitz. The guided tour, artifacts, and intact buildings really help you to understand the enormity of what took place there. 

One last word of advice, especially for you otherwise endearing photo snapping tourists from the east: these are NOT the places for cute, smiling, peace sign group photos. You should have a lot of them from your trip but they shouldn't be at a place of torture and mass murder.

A Letter to My Daughter Kim before she embarks on on the March of The Living...

A Letter to My Daughter Kim before she embarks on on the March of The Living...

Dearest Kim,

The March of the Living is an extraordinary, unforgettable experience.  With thousands  of Jewish people, from countries all around the world, you will share in a once in a lifetime experience when they march three kilometers from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest concentration camp complex built by the Nazis during World War II. The March commemorates Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. You with be there – along with over 8,000 participants who will be part of this historic event.

As one of the Marchers, you will retrace the steps of the March of Death, the actual route which countless numbers of our people were forced to take on their way to the gas chambers at Birkenau. You will experience Jewish history where it was made. This time, however, there will be a difference. It will be a March of the Living with thousands of Jewish youth, like yourself, marching shoulder to shoulder. You will participate in a memorial service at one of the gas chambers/crematoria, in Birkenau, which will conclude with the singing of Hatikvah, reaffirming Am Yisrael Chai – The Jewish People Live.

Kaddish is a Jewish Prayer to Remember the Dead and normally said by Men. In the absence of a Male Member ( there are only your brother Jonathan and I left)  of the Family when you place the Three Jerusalem Stones with the Names of  The Three Branches of your Family that were Murdered in the Holocaust  say Kaddish out Loud . Say Kaddish for the Drues of Krakow and your Great Aunt Hadasaeah that died in Belzec extermination camp   and all the other  Drues cousins of Krakow that died in Belzec,Treblinska and Auschwitz .Over 280 Drues s of Krakow  relations died. There are no known survivors.. Say Kaddish  for the Drues of Majzugola near Vilna who died in the Vaivara and Auschwitz Camp if they were not murdered first in the Forest of Paneriai   .There are no known survivors . Say Kaddish for the Shabelshok/Fialkov Families of Riga  who were murdered between 30th November and 8th December ,1941, in the Rumbula Forest near Riga with  25,000 thousand other Jews from Latvia. Say Kaddish for the sisters and brothers of your Great Grandmother Freda Shabelstok Baker who died in the Forrest of Rumbula . Say Kaddish for Sarah , Robert, Michael, David , Gregor , Rachel , Lazer, Leah and Fredrich , Freda and Rosa Shabelstok's older sisters and brothers and all their children and even grandchildren  Not one survived. Over 350 members of the Shabelstok / Fialkov Families died in the misty Forest of Rumbula with  other Latvian Jews mainly from Riga and surrounding areas. Say Kaddish for all the Shabelstok/Fialkov/Drues cousins and there must have  been hundreds and hundreds, , if not thousands and thousands, in the extended Shabelstok / Fialkov families .Four Shabeltok Siblings married four Fialkov Siblings. None are ni  known survivers.

Say Kaddish in Tears and then Scream … "We Survived and Are Here Now Again -Never Ever Again" , אנחנו שרדנו ואנחנו כאן עכשיו - לעולם לא עוד יהיה שם שואה חוזרת


Those that Survived The Holocaust but did not experience it first hand:-
Shabelskok: Freda and her younger Rosa . Freda was in Uitenhague ,South Africa married to Chaim Baker  and Rosa, her younger sister  in Norway taken there by the Danish Resistance with most of the Danish Jews.They were the youngest of 11 siblings . All the siblings were married with kids .all the siblings and their families were murdered in the Forest of Rumbuka

Fialkov: Twin Brothers Manny ( Mordechai) and Jay ( Josef) in Cape Town,South Africa . They were the youngest of 10 siblings . None of their siblings or their families survived the Holocaust..

Drues: Samuel  ( your great grandfather) and Naomi in Cape Town, South Africa and William in Chicago, USA survived the Holocaust.. The children of Hadaseah who died in Belzec, joined Jabotinsky's Betar,immigrated to Israel in 1932 and survived in Israel . They were Freda and Hashya who married the Kurman Brothers , Max , who was wounded twice in Palmach operations and Chaim who was a teacher for 43 years before retiring.

Mourn and then Celebrate the Shabelstok/ Fialkov / Drues Survival when you March from Birkenau to Auschwitz... you are their Symbol of Survival and Their Future..

 



  








 




 


 

Love You To Bits
xxx
Dad

On the Origin of our surname 
Stephen Darori ( Drori) 
Before I Hebrewized my surname on the 6th September 1986 I was Stephen Ellis Drus...the son of Fay Baker Drus and Morrie Drus  z'l
Fay Baker Drus was the daughter of Freda Shabelstol Baker and Hymie ( Chaim Baker) one of the 3 founders of Betar in South Africa in 1931 and Jabotinskyt stayed at him when he visited the Eastern Cape, South Africa in the same year.
Morrie ( Morris ) Drus is the son of Samuel Drues and Sarah Kaplan Drues. . They were married in Poland and then in 1921 immigrated to Cape Town , South Africa. Drues became Drus.

The logic of the Hebrewaization of Drus ro Darori. Drus דרוס pronounced Darus is the Gerund of "Ledareis".לדרס.." to be trodden on to be run over".... could not live with that when I came on Aliyah from Cape town, South Africa and a letter change דרוס -> דרור which became דרורי the Biblical word for a Sparrow. Cage a Sparrow and it will die wrote Acad Ha'am so Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the reviver of the Hebrew Language  in his New  Hebrew dictionary gave Drori a new metaphorical meaning  of "Freedom and Liberty". The "a' was added for Branding Purposes . Darori ( Drori) is very approproiate... Kim , your great Aunt Professor Ethel Drus led the committee of 12 ( 9 Jews and Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Z.K. Mathews ) who drafted the Freedom Charter , the most important document of the African National Congress. Both your Grandparents and I were very active in the Progressive Party of Helen Susman and Harry Oppenheimer which has evolved into the Democratic Alliance, the Liberal Opposition to the ANC, 

A Letter to My Daughter Kim before she embarks on the March of the Living

A Letter to My Daughter Kim before she embarks on on the March of The Living...

Dearest Kim,

The March of the Living is an extraordinary, unforgettable experience.  With thousands  of Jewish people, from countries all around the world, you will share in a once in a lifetime experience when they march three kilometers from Auschwitz to Birkenau, the largest concentration camp complex built by the Nazis during World War II. The March commemorates Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. You with be there – along with over 8,000 participants who will be part of this historic event.

As one of the Marchers, you will retrace the steps of the March of Death, the actual route which countless numbers of our people were forced to take on their way to the gas chambers at Birkenau. You will experience Jewish history where it was made. This time, however, there will be a difference. It will be a March of the Living with thousands of Jewish youth, like yourself, marching shoulder to shoulder. You will participate in a memorial service at one of the gas chambers/crematoria, in Birkenau, which will conclude with the singing of Hatikvah, reaffirming Am Yisrael Chai – The Jewish People Live.

Kaddish is a Jewish Prayer to Remember the Dead and normally said by Men. In the absence of a Male Member of the Family ( there are only your brother and I left) u when you place the Three Jerusalem Stones with the Names of The Three Branches of your Family that were Murdered in the Holocaust  say Kaddish out Loud . Say Kaddish for the Drues of Krakow and your Great Aunt Hadasaeah that died in Belzec extermination camp   and all the other  Drues cousins of Krakow that died in Belzec,Treblinska and Auschwitz .Over 280 Drues s of Krakow  relations died. There are no known survivors.. Say Kaddish  for the Drues of Majzugola near Vilna who died in the  Vaivara and Auschwitz Camp if they were not murdered first in the Forest of Paneriai   .There are no known survivors . Say Kaddish for the Shabelshok/Fialkov Families of Riga  who were murdered between 30th November and 8th December  in the Rumbula Forest near Riga with  25,000 thousand other Jews from Latvia. Say Kaddish for the sisters and brothers of your Great Grandmother Freda Shabelstok Baker who died in the Forrest of Rumbula . Say Kaddish for Sarah , Robert, Michael, David , Gregor , Rachel , Lazer, Leah and Fredrich , Freda and Rosa Shabelstok's older sisters and brothers and all their children and even grandchildren  Not one survived. Over 350 members of the Shabelstok / Fialkov Families died in the misty Forest of Rumbula with  other Latvian Jews mainly from Riga and surrounding areas. Say Kaddish for all the Shabelstok/Fialkov/Drues cousins and there must have  been hundreds and hundreds, , if not thousands and thousands, in the extended Shabelstok / Fialkov families .Four Shabeltok Siblings married four Fialkov Siblings. None are ni  known survivers.

Say Kaddish in Tears and then Scream … "We Survived and Are Here Now Again -Never Ever Again" , אנחנו שרדנו ואנחנו כאן עכשיו - לעולם לא עוד יהיה שם שואה חוזרת

Those that Survived The Holocaust but did not experience it first hand:-

Shabelskok: Freda and her younger Rosa . Freda was in Uitenhague ,South Africa married to Chaim Baker  and Rosa, her younger sister  in Norway taken there by the Danish Resistance with most of the Danish Jews.They were the youngest of 11 siblings . All the siblings were married with kids .all the siblings and their families were murdered in the Forest of Rumbuka

Fialkov: Twin Brothers Manny ( Mordechai) and Jay ( Josef) in Cape Town,South Africa . They were the youngest of 10 siblings . None of their siblings or their families survived the Holocaust..

Drues: Samuel  ( your great grandfather) and Naomi in Cape Town, South Africa and William in Chicago, USA survived the Holocaust.. The children of Hadaseah who died in Belzec, joined Jabotinsky's Betar,immigrated to Israel in 1932 and survived in Israel . They were Freda and Hashya who married the Kurman Brothers , Max , who was wounded twice in Palmach operations and Chaim who was a teacher for 43 years before retiring.

Mourn and then Celebrate the Shabelstok/ Fialkov / Drues Survival when you March from Birkenau to Auschwitz... you are their Symbol of Survival .

Love You To Bits

xxx

Dad

On the Origin of our surname 

Stephen Darori ( Drori) 

Before I Hebrewized my surname on the 6th September 1986 I was Stephen Ellis Drus...the son of Fay Baker Drus and Morrie Drus  z'l

Fay Baker Drus was the daughter of Freda Shabelstol Baker and Hymie ( Chaim Baker) one of the 3 founders of Betar in South Africa in 1931 and Jabotinskyt stayed at him when he visited the Eastern Cape, South Africa in the same year.

Morrie ( Morris ) Drus is the son of Samuel Drues and Sarah Kaplan Drues. . They were married in Poland and then in 1921 immigrated to Cape Town , South Africa. Drues became Drus.

The logic of the Hebrewaization of Drus ro Darori. Drus דרוס pronounced Darus is the Gerund of "Ledareis".לדרס.." to be trodden on to be run over".... could not live with that when I came on Aliyah from Cape town, South Africa and a letter change דרוס -> דרור which became דרורי the Biblical word for a Sparrow. Cage a Sparrow and it will die wrote Acad Ha'am so Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the reviver of the Hebrew Language  in his New  Hebrew dictionary gave Drori a new metaphorical meaning  of "Freedom and Liberty". The "a' was added for Branding Purposes . Darori ( Drori) is very approproiate... Kim , your great Aunt Professor Ethel Drus led the committee of 12 ( 9 Jews and Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Z.K. Mathews ) who drafted the Freedom Charter , the most important document of the African National Congress. Both your Grandparents and I were very active in the Progressive Party of Helen Susman and Harry Oppenheimer which has evolved into the Democratic Alliance, the Liberal Opposition to the ANC,