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Many children killed in the Holocaust had no one to say Kaddish for them. These Jews have stepped up.

JL;DR SUMMARY In an effort to honor the memory of Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust who have no surviving relatives, Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach, Florida, has instituted a poignant tradition called "Remember a Child." A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish IdentityYad VashemHolocaust EducationHolocaust RemembranceKaddishTemple Beth ElChildren VictimsMemorial InitiativeRabbi Alan BellSusan Bell

Places mentioned

West Palm Beach, Florida, United States
"As each weeks Shabbat morning service comes to a close at Temple Beth El in West Palm Beach, Florida, an unusual tradition unfolds as the congregation prepares to recite the Mourners Kaddish."
Berlin, Germany
"Bell and his wife Susan have adopted a girl named Renee Albersheim who was born in 1930 in Berlin."
Kovno, Kaunas County, Lithuania
"They do not know when she died, only that it was in the Kovno Ghetto in German-occupied Lithuania."
Greece
"I wanted to show the girls how widespread the Holocaust was; it was a learning experience for them. They were girls from different places in the world one was from Greece and the other from Romania and they had the same first name as my granddaughters, she continued."
Romania
"They were girls from different places in the world one was from Greece and the other from Romania and they had the same first name as my granddaughters, she continued."
Israel
"Having taken over the initiative from Finkelstein, Susan Bell has sought to gather as much information as she can about roughly 15 of the children whom congregants have adopted, starting with a page of testimony assembled by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel."

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