the chairman of the Jewish community in Frankfurt an der Oder on the phone trying to arrange a meeting. Doin number. On the handset, says the voice of an elderly man: - "Da"? Present and say that I would like to talk with the President: - "Da, da, gawarisz pa ruski?" - Ask my interlocutor. German answer that I do not speak Russian. On the other side is behind the silence. After a while, the handset says another voice. Please request a meeting with the President tomorrow, if possible. "The President in Potsdam. Call on Friday. "- He says with a Russian accent and hangs up. In Potsdam? After all, tomorrow is the Jewish holiday Slubice.
first Jews arrive before noon. Parked cars
with Berlin and Hamburg registration numbers on the rough grass on the way to the Green Mountains, and they greet each other briefly and warmly. A few steps next door, in the grass by the roadside, using a drunkard. The moment he scoops the police. Bearded men, dressed in traditional black jackets and hats, crack down on something live, gesticulate. Passing near the driver's release and look at the strange meeting. A crowd of orthodox Israelites an extraordinary view of Slubice. They came from different parts of the world, mainly in Germany, the Netherlands, the USA and Israel. It Polatsek old rabbi from New York, came to the rabbis of Amsterdam and Brandenburg. Michael Schudrich missing, but the rabbi of Warsaw and Lodz, takes the time attending a funeral of Irena Sendler. a moment on the high fence located behind the cemetery, the symbolic graves, Jews kaddish-check service for the dead.
Słubice cemetery is the oldest in Poland. In July 1399 Israel acquired the rights to land for the city. "We counsel the city of Frankfurt confess publicly in this letter to all who see him, hear or read that the Jews to bury their relatives on the Mount, the Jewish (Judenberg). But they should pay for the good of the city six cents Czech" - states the document.
Oder on the hill, away from the hustle and bustle, the Jews bury the dead until the thirties of the twentieth century. In 1798 Teomin slept here - regarded by the Jewish community as one of the most important rabbis of the past centuries.
Teomin Josef, also known as Peri Megadim, went to the Hebrew canon with commentary on the Talmud, concerning, inter alia kosher recipes. Yitzhak Rabin in a speech given Ehrenburg Gazeta Wyborcza had characterized the Oder River from above the sage: "In my life I had thousands of students. He studied in Lviv, Hungary, in Berlin. Finally, he was a rabbi in Frankfurt. There is no educated Jew in the world who would not know , who it is, whether or not he would read the writings Teomina. "Until the outbreak of war his grave was a place of pilgrimage.
Teomin Josef, also known as Peri Megadim, went to the Hebrew canon with commentary on the Talmud, concerning, inter alia kosher recipes. Yitzhak Rabin in a speech given Ehrenburg Gazeta Wyborcza had characterized the Oder River from above the sage: "In my life I had thousands of students. He studied in Lviv, Hungary, in Berlin. Finally, he was a rabbi in Frankfurt. There is no educated Jew in the world who would not know , who it is, whether or not he would read the writings Teomina. "Until the outbreak of war his grave was a place of pilgrimage.
the 210 anniversary of his death, the symbolic place of burial of a famous rabbi in Frankfurt, mournfully echoed Kaddish.
Nazis devastated the cemetery before the outbreak of World War II. In contrast to the synagogues, mostly destroyed during the Kristallnacht, the Jewish burial sites survived World War II without major damage. In 1944, its aircraft bombed a cemetery Słubice RAF. After the war, fell into disrepair and oblivion. She arrived on the Oder, the Polish population, with the consent of the authorities, and often with their help, treat Protestant cemeteries and graveyards, as a free storage of building materials. Los survivors from plunder and destruction of Jewish burial sites sealed the agreement between the People's Republic and the GDR-visa in 1970.
"In connection with the opening of border crossing in Slubice and substantial increase in tourist traffic within the local district there is a need to accede to the necessary immediate liquidation of Jewish cemeteries in Rzepin and Slubice, the more that the cemeteries are located on the main tourist route "- the officials of the Department wrote the Bureau of Municipal District Council of Zielona Gora. [1]
liquidation based on Law of the cemetery in 1959, "The cemeteries and burial" which allowed for the possibility of liquidation of the cemetery within 40 years after the last burial, for reasons including national defense or the need for the implementation of national economic plans. Be the first one was liquidated in 1966 in Glogow cemetery, said the sources from the year 1280. In the implementation of national projects were built at this point blocks. The strategic importance for the development of PRL was also found in the period of the Republic Cemetery in Międzyrzecz. Since there was gravel on board, the minister of municipal management decided in the early 1970s to turn it into gravel pit. Sand and gravestones were used as the base under the asphalt road in the direction of Schwerin. Today, in place of the old cemetery runs bypass Miedzyrzecze.
In 1976, the site of the cemetery was built in Slubice wayside "Old Polish Inn", administered by the state enterprise "Warta Tourist." The rest of the land taken over by the municipality and the bus station. In 1999, the inn had bought the new owner, who leases the property the night club and escort service. The desecration burial place and informed the media Slubice became loud. A change in this state of affairs for many years been pushing the Jews of New York Rabbi Berel Polatskiem at the helm. In 1999 through the initiative of the inhabitants of Frankfurt / Oder and Slubice stylized tombstones unveiled a commemorative plaque. Turnaround came after the intervention of representatives of Jewish communities in the Prime Minister Leszek Miller, the host in the U.S.. Soon the night club was closed, and the Polish government financed the purchase of land on which the cemetery is located.
Men pray at the graves.
gravestone of Rabbi Josef Teomina gravestone of Rabbi
Yehuda Leib Margaliot gravestone of Rabbi
Zecharia Mendel - reads an inscription in Hebrew.
prayers like a social event. Jews talk to each other, pushing their way, go a few steps to the side, to answer the phone. Are not available, locked in their group. They are not interested what is happening around them. Do not care about the mayor of Frankfurt, or the mayor of Slubice and county governor. Officials do not hear speeches and memoirs about the merits of the Jews to Polish culture and science, and Germany. Celebrate the cemetery, live on something discuss. You may wonder about the remainder of the restoration of the cemetery? Second, in addition to 2012 anniversary of the death of the reason for the visit Teomina rabbis in Slubice, was the completion of the first phase of cleanup work.
Jews from the Cemetery Committee for the Reconstruction did not maintain any relations with the Russian-Jewish community in Frankfurt. Does not participate in the ceremony the chairman Volodymyr Levitsky. Sure it is actually in Potsdam.
May 2008
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[1 ] State Archive in Zielona Gora. Bureau of Provincial Council. Department of Public Utilities. Ref. 3484 and the 3486th)
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