Message from the sons of David Herman, who passed away on April 14, 2022. Thursday, April 28, 2022, Holocaust “Martyrs and Heroes” Memorial Day. The memorial candle is still lit🕯️ Today we stood in silence for 2 minutes as the siren sounded. For the first time without our father, the Read more…
Hannah Eden was born in Plinycha, Poland, in July 1933. Her name was Annia Shlenkovitz. Her parents where Peretz and Zviya Shlenkovitz, and she has a five-year-older brother named Moshe. From testimony that Hannah gave to her grandchildren on the occasion of “Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day”: “We had Read more…
On Friday, June 18, 2021, Dov Pelts, one of the Children of Selvino, died in Nahariya. He was born in Tomaschov in Poland in 1931. Dov together with his brothers, Yitzhak, Zvi and Yossi and their sister Rivka, remained in Sciesopoli for about three years, until they emigrated to Israel Read more…
We are moved and saddened by the death of Hanna Gurfinkel Cerrone, a little girl from Selvino. The brothers Gurfinkel Israel (born in 1935) and Chana or Hanna (born in 1933), both born in Warsaw to Abraham and Chesia, are registered in the list of the Selvino Children of 10 Read more…
On July 28, 2020, Avraham Itzhak (called Izio) Shichore, a Child from Selvino, died. He was 90 years old. He was the son of Shlomo and Minna, born in Poland on February 12, 1930, husband of Naomi Plug-Shichore. He had made his Aliya in Israel in 1947. He was buried Read more…
We participate in the pain of the family, children and grandchildren and share the commitment to preserve the memory of the Children of Selvino. Yossi, Sarah Spiegel’s son sent us some photos and a short text in her memory, so that her memory will be a blessing. Our dear mother Read more…
With great sorrow we learned of the death on September 22, 2019 of Milton Hostick, a Child of Selvino, who participated in the international meeting in September 2015 in Selvino. Unfortunately the witnesses who survived the Shoah are leaving, and in Selvino they found a family, a smile and hope Read more…
With great sorrow I inform you of the passing of Yehuda Shmuelli on Friday May 31st. We hereby send our condolences to the family. The funeral will take place on Sunday, June 2 at Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra. Yehuda Shmuelli was born in April 1929 in the village of Lipscha, in Read more…
Visit to Selvino by Haim Pelts, with some friends, on November 8, 2018. In memory of Father Yitzhak Pelts (or Pelz, born in 1933), a Child from Selvino, welcomed, cared for and formed for new life in Israel, together with his brothers: Dov (born in 1931), Zvika (born in 1935, Read more…
Francesca Muci’s new film, La casa dei bambini, was produced by Francesco Gesualdi for Camelot 2014 and Istituto Luce Cinecittà, which distributes it in theaters. See link to “News Cinecittà”. We have already talked about it in a post in which we announced some shots of the film in Selvino: Read more…
He was only 10 years old when, in the autumn of 1946, Hersch Pelz arrived in Selvin from Poland with his brothers Dov, Yizhak, Josef and his sister Rifka. They were helped by the Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) and Jewish Brigade. His mother Sara, who as a maiden Read more…
On January 10th 2018 Olek Sarel, known in Selvino as Alexander Czoban, passed away after a long illness. Olek Sarel was born in 1929 in Lvov (Poland), son of Abraham Alfred Czoban and Henryka Czoban, brother of Aviva. During the war Olek was wandering through villages and forests escaping the Read more…
Visit of Avraham Aviel in Selvino on 16 April 2016 with his wife Ayala and daughters Zipi and Sarit – April 2016 Documentary made by the
Avraham Aviel è nato nel 1929 a Dugalishok, un villaggio agricolo ebraico (oggi in Bielorussia), da Moshe David e Sarah Mina che era nata Lipkunsky. Moshe David era un fabbro e Sara Mina proveniva da una famiglia rabbinica di Eišiškis, Lituania. Alla fine del 1941, gli ebrei di Dugalishok sono Read more…