The story of Gizela - Afik Shiraz. Abinun Shmuel

Such a picture appeared in my nightmares that made me jump out of bed with screams of terror and fear

Speaking in front of an audience

Following the conversations with the caregivers from AMCHA and the mental relief that it bring with them, I felt more prepared to deal with Holocaust memory. The first time I spoke to a crowd was at the survivors' conference of immigrants from Yugoslavia in 2015. Such a ceremony is held once a year, every Holocaust Memorial Day, in the “Saints Wood” at Shoresh, on way to Jerusalem. I have already attended the event many times, however this time I was asked by the Yugoslavian Organization to take active part as a representative of the town of Vishegrad, and I answered positively. I talked about Anti-Semitism then and today. I told about the town I grew up in and about the hundred and the twenty Jews who lived there, three or four extended families overall. I spoke in Hebrew and Serbian so that the Consuls of Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia who presented in the event will be able to understand my remarks, as well as all those new immigrant Jews from Yugoslavia who arrived on 1992 and who still did not understand Hebrew.

A memorial service for Yugoslavian Jewish communities on Holocaust Day 2015

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