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Narewka
Recovered Jewish Gravestones
Brought to the Narewka Jewish
Cemetery
Kasia Bielawska from Narewka
has informed me of the recent recovery of
three Jewish gravestones and has sent
photographs. Two of the matzevot,
which had been used as steps, were found in
a nearby village during the renovation of an
old wooden house. They were brought to the
Narewka Jewish Cemetery by Kasia and Bogdan
Dawidziuk, with the help of Jurek
Pańkowsk. One of the gravestones was
for a young boy Eliyahu and has the symbol
of a broken tree contained within a
heart-shaped form. A third gravestone (for a
young girl) was also found in another nearby
village; this one had been used in the
foundation of an outbuilding. See the
photographs below (May 2011); see also, Macewy
wracają na cmentarz: »
Czasopis » Nr 7-8/11 (ЛІПЕНЬ-ЖНІВЕНЬ 2011)
The gravestones were discovered
and returned to the Jewish Cemetery in
Narewka only days after the
May
2011 visit to Narewka of Zvika
Birenbaum, Principal of
Adar School, Petch-Tikwa,
Israel, with
his students, his brother and daughter. After
learning of the recovered gravestones,
Zvika and his students were inspired to
write a song in memory of
Eliyahu,
whose gravestone was one of those that had
been brought to the cemetery. Click
here to hear their song in Hebrew on
youtube, and here
to hear it in English on youtube.
click here to
hear the Hebrew song from an MP3 file,
and click
here to hear
the English version - MP3 file (added
March 2013).
The song was originally written in Hebrew
and later translated into English. Lyrics by
Tzvika Birenhaum,
composed and sung in Hebrew by Hanan
Ben-Ari; vocals in English by Yishai
Hershkowitz.
Scroll
down to see photographs of the gravestone
of Eliyahu, son of Yerachmiel.
Kasia Bielawska Examining the Gravestones at the
Cemetery
Photos
Courtesy of Katarzyna Bielawska
(Click on photographs for larger images.)
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Here Lies
The Beloved Child (Boy)
Eliyahu
Son of Yerachmiel
Zarachewitch (Zarachewicz)
Died on 1 Cheshvan
5698 (6 October 1937)
Let his soul be bound
up in the bond of eternal life.
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A woman
Leah
Palatzik
daughter of David
Died on 2 Adar II
5689 (14 Mar 1929)
Let her soul be bound
up in the bond of eternal life.
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Third Recovered
Gravestone
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Kasia Examining
Third Recovered Gravestone
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Click on photo for
larger image
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Here lies
the beloved child (girl)
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daughter of Mr. Eliezer
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