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Video of May 5-9, 2023
Conference of families of the Children of Selvino in tribute to the Italian people
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Yael Golan-Shwartzblat Zal has passed away
This week the family of “I Bambini di Selvino” lost one of ours: Yael Golan-Shwartzblat Zal died in Australia. The Selvino Children’s Association planted a tree in memory of Yael Golan in the Jerusalem forest. We “met” her and her daughter Michal in a remote online meeting about a year Read more…
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Ruben Richmann deceased in Montreal
On Monday, June 12, 2023, Ruben Richmann, one of the Children of Selvino, died in Montreal. He was born in 1932 in a small Polish town, today Belarus, 100 km from Vilnius. He was the only Holocaust survivor of his entire family. He had been welcomed in Selvino in the Read more…
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The Selvino conference (5-9 May 2023)
The song of the virtues in our return to Selvino “ we were like dreamers”… then the weariness of our mouths and our tongues were filled with songs… A week ago, upon my return home, Tami kept on knocking on my door saying “you need to write a conference summary”, Read more…
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The Children of Selvino are back (5-9 May 2023)
The orphans of the Shoah, the “Children of Selvino” return to Selvino (Bg) to honor the place where they were reborn to life. Between 5 and 9 May 2023, some of the approximately 800 children who survived the Shoah and their families return to Italy in Selvino (Bg) to pay Read more…
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In memory of Anna Sternfeld
Sad. The community of the Children Of Selvino bows its head with the untimely passing of our friend in Milan/Selvino. Anna Sternfeld, wife of Enrico Grisanti passed away on February 15, 2023, after fighting with courage and hope for her recovery. Anna was a small woman of big stature. Strong Read more…
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Photo exhibition of visits by the Children of Selvino
On 27 January 2023 in Selvino from 10 am to the whole morning at the MuMeSE museum, the photographic exhibition «The memory of Jewish Sciesopoli – The return to life» was set up and open to the public, curated by the municipal councilor Virginia Magoni and by the film director Read more…
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(Italiano) “Bambini nella Shoah” a Brescia
The “Casa della Memoria di Brescia“, which has always been committed to safeguarding memory to bear witness to the Shoah, has set up an exhibition with the stories of Jewish children who were victims of Nazi persecution, entitled “Stars without a sky“. The exhibition will be open from 10 to Read more…
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David Herman: from Shoah to rebirth
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…
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In memory of Hannah Eden
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…
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Meeting of the children of Selvino in Yad Vashem on 13 Oct. 2021
On October 13, 2021, a meeting of the children of Selvino and future generations was held in Yad Vashem. The program included a guided tour of the “Flashes of Memory“ exhibition, a memorial service at the synagogue, excerpts, singing and a lecture by Naama Galil, a project coordinator in the Read more…
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Dov Pelts passed away in Nahariya
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…
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Selvino’s little girl Hanna Gurfinkel Cerrone passed away
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…
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Memorial Day in Cernobbio (Como)
“The indifference is more guilty than violence itself. It is the moral apathy of those who turn away. It happens even today towards all the horrors of the world. And memory is the only vaccine against indifference” (Liliana Segre). On January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers arrived in Auschwitz in southern Read more…
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“Rebirth” video by the second grade schools of Chiavenna (Sondrio)
ITALIAN NATIONAL COMPETITION: “YOUNG PEOPLE REMEMBER THE SHOAH” school year 2020/2021 The contest “Young people remember the Shoah“, now in its nineteenth edition, saw the participation of thousands of Italian students, who, despite the difficulties related to the Covid-19 pandemic, tried their hand at the theme of “Return to life Read more…
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“A refuge near the sky” by Aurora Cantini
“A refuge near the sky” by Aurora Cantini, tells the true story of five Jewish families and their children, all hidden from 1943 to 1945 in some houses in the small village of Ama, on the Selvino and Aviatico Plateau between the mountains of Bergamo Orobie. The friendship between the Read more…
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Best wishes for Liliana Segre’s 90 years
Best wishes to Senator Liliana Segre on her 90th birthday from ANED – National Association of ex-deportees to Nazi camps which produced a special video to express her deep gratitude for her testimony. The friends of the Children of Selvino join in these touching wishes with the utmost esteem and Read more…
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Death announcement of Avraham Shichore, a Child of Selvino
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…
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Selvino’s little girl Sarah (Kessel) Spiegel passed away
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…
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Dear friends of Selvino
Dear friends of Selvino, In this difficult time for Italy but also for Israel, the Children of Selvino cannot and do not want to forget the place that hosted them after the Shoah and above all the inhabitants of the small town of Selvino, between Val Seriana and Val Brembana, Read more…
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Exhibition Sciesopoli, 1945-1948
The exhibition is available for exhibitions in schools, libraries and cultural centers. Writing for contacts and requests to: info[@]sciesopoli.com ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Exhibition “Jewish Sciesopoli” in Bergamo, 15-22 September 2015
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Inauguration of the Selvino Children’s Museum
Sunday 27 October 2019 the Municipality of Selvino inaugurates the “Jewish Sciesopoli Memorial Museum – Children’s home of Selvino“ Opening program 10.00 am Meeting in the Conference Hall of the Municipality of Selvino 10.15 am Greeting from the authorities 11.45 am Opening ceremony of the Sciesopoli Jewish Memorial Museum – Read more…
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Rivka Krol’s family visiting Selvino
On October 18, 2019, the family of Rivka Krol, a little girl from Selvino, came from Israel to visit Selvino. The name of Rivka Krol, born in Lublin (Poland) in 1929, is found among the cards of the assisted from the Unrra (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) conserved to Read more…
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Moshe Zeiri’s son from Israel in Selvino
On 26 September 2019, visit to Selvino of Moshe Zeiri’s son, who in 1945-48 was the director at Sciesopoli, the former fascist colony became the “Casa dei Bambini di Selvino” Holocaust survivors. With his family and grandchildren, Avner Zeiri came to Selvino from Israel to see the places and the Read more…
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Milton Hostick, a Child of Selvino, is dead
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…
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Happy birthday to Liliana Segre!
Happy birthday to Liliana Segre, born in Milan on 10 September 1930, a survivor of the Holocaust and a tireless witness to the tragedy of the Holocaust and the horror of Nazi-fascism. At 13 she was deported to Auschwitz, she was the only one in her family to survive concentration Read more…
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Holocaust Remembrance Day 2019
Report of some meetings for the “Memorial Day 2019”. These are key moments to remember the tragedy of the Holocaust and to make known the stories of salvation of the Children of Selvino who survived the extermination and the reconstruction of their lives. They were also an opportunity to illustrate Read more…
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Valeria Dani: “Sciesopoli: Transformation and Abandonment”
By courtesy of the author and the publisher, we are posting an essay by Valeria Dani dedicated to the recovery of Sciesopoli’s memory: The Fascist Colony of Sciesopoli: Transformation and Abandonment: >> READ EBOOK OF THE COMPLETE TEST BY VALERIA DANI >> The essay is part of the book: “DP Read more…
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Sudden death of Daniel Gorini
With deep sadness we share the news of the sudden death of Daniel Gorini at Massachusetts General Hospital on Friday 28 of June 2019, due to complications related to cancer. Radhika his wife was at his side as she did during his ten-year journey with cancer. Daniel was the son Read more…
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“The children of the Promised Land” on Italian TV Rai3
The story of the Children’s House of Selvino told by Fabio Toncelli. The episode of 28-06-2019 of “La Grande Storia” on Italian TV Rai3 entitled “Nazism, horror and hope”, with the collaboration of Paolo Mieli, dedicated a documentary of about ten minutes, directed by Fabio Toncelli, to the emblematic story Read more…
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Visit of Orly Ardon from the USA to Selvino
On June 18, 2019, Orly Ardon, daughter of Itamar (Deutsch) Doron, a child of Selvino, and granddaughter of two instructors in the institute visited Sciesopoli. At nine in the morning Enrico Grisanti accompanied the family of Orly Ardon, with husband and her daughter, to the town hall of Selvino, where Read more…
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Yehuda Shmuelli, a Child of Selvino, is dead.
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…
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Visit to Selvino by Haim Pelts from Israel
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…
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Against indifference, make a difference!
The primary and secondary schools of Bosisio Parini (Lecco) prepared for many months the Day of the Shoah 2019, with the help of their teachers and in particular of Prof. Sara Riva, who sent us this message: “With our children, in three months of preparation for the appointments of the Read more…
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“The children’s home” documentary by Francesca Muci
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…
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The plate of the “Children of Selvino” was found
The plaque of the Children of Selvino has been found at the beginning of March 2019. It had been stolen from Vulcano Park in the days between the end of 2018 and the beginning of the new year. It was probably a year-end prank. However, we thank Anna and Enrico Read more…
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Aharon Megged’s book “Children of Selvino”
To read the e-book of Aharon Megged’s book in Italian on Selvino’s Children, we ask you to send us an email to: info@sciesopoli.com http://youtu.be/EAvwvaS0Hys Interview with Aharon Megged (born August 10, 1920 in Poland and died March 23, 2016 in Tel Aviv) who wrote the story of the Jewish children of Read more…
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The track without return (poem by Aurora Cantini)
(The survivors of Binario 21, Milan) That pain in the background is still within us, rooted like a felled tree, shattered like a wreck adrift, immense as the sea of silence. It is a pain of splinters stuck in the heart, chains penetrated into the flesh, screaming and devastating flames. Read more…
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The “Cyclist of Memory”: Giovanni Bloisi
An award to the journalist Matteo Fontana who told the story of the journey of the “cyclist of memory”. In Milan Thursday, October 25, 2018, Matteo Fontana, journalist from Varesenoi.it received the Israel Press Award 2018 awarded by the Israeli National Tourist Office. He was awarded for an article written Read more…
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In search of the identity of the Children of Selvino
The Israeli Association for the Study of Family Roots holds a seminar on the subject of children seeking their identity. The seminar is scheduled for November 27, 2018 in Givatayim, Tel Aviv: https://goo.gl/maps/6EDVy9aKw2y The conference is open to the general public. You can register through this link. Among the speakers Read more…
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The Aurora Cantini’s poetry to the 70th of Sciesopoli
ANNIVERSARIO OF “SCIESOPOLI” (1945 – 2015) Days have passed, and years too, much snow has fallen on the paths of the immense park, and a thousand autumn leaves have caressed the loneliness of those old walls. Rain like tears has beaten against the blank windows that still tremble at the Read more…
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The children of Sciesopoli told by Bruno Maida
In the column “Wikiradio” of September 20, 2018 of Radio Rai 3, the story of Bruno Maida “I bambini della colonia di Sciesopoli” (“The Children of the Colony of Sciesopoli”) was told. On September 21, 1945, Lieutenant Colonel H.G. Hershenson, Commissioner for the City of Milan of the Allied Military Read more…
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Meetings in Selvino summer 2018
Wednesday, July 25 and Tuesday, August 7, 2018, the Municipal Administration of Selvino, in collaboration with the association Oter, proposed two meetings in the Library on the history of the colony of Sciesopoli, led by Aurora Cantini and Enrico Grisanti. Both meetings have been successful. The story of the story Read more…
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Sciesopoli, 1945-1948: the House of Selvino Children
Sciesopoli: it seems like the name of a fantastic and imaginary city. Instead, it is the name of a great alpine colony, founded by the leaders of Milanese fascism and inaugurated on 11 June 1933 in Selvino. The name derives from “Tendopoli”, with which the fascist squadrists called their campsites Read more…
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Zvi Dotan (Pelz/Pelts) from Israel visiting Selvino
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…
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The Children of Selvino in the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel
On May 16, 2018, at the Palmach Museum in Tel Aviv, an event was held for the Children of Selvino and their families, in honor of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. The program included a social gathering, singing accompanied by a slideshow and personal Read more…
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“Ships of Hope” Aliya Bet from Italy, 1945-1948
To visit at the Memorial of the Shoah in Milan (Binary 21) the exhibition “Ships of Hope” Aliya Bet from Italy, 1945-1948, open until June 28, 2018. The exhibition was inaugurated in the presence of the vice-president of the Memorial, Roberto Jarach, the vice-Ambassador of Israel in Italy, Ofra Farhi, Read more…
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Interview with Miriam Bisk, 2017
Miriam Bisk, President of Amuttah “Children of Selvino”, talks about her parents, Salek Najman and Lola Popinska, who were Polish Jews, sole survivors of the Holocaust and refugees in Several detention camps and interned in the British camps in Cyprus. Miriam’s father was involved in the youth movement Gordonia, of Read more…
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“Moshe’s children”, book of Sergio Luzzatto
The orphans of the Shoah and the birth of Israel. The book is out in January 2018, Einaudi Storia, pp. XIV – 394, € 32 – eBook € 10,99. Sergio Luzzatto recounts here the adventure of a surprising number of Jewish children, who have escaped the final solution and refugees Read more…
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The second generation of “Children of Selvino”
The children of the “Children of Selvin” returned to Selvino: the sisters Naama and Tami, daughters of Leah Ben-Dov Spivak – and Avi Shilo, son of Shmulik Shilo, who came from Israel to make the film that RAI will broadcast on the Memorial Day of 2018. This is their greetings Read more…
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The sisters Naama and Tami Sharon and Avi Shilo in Selvino
Selvino welcomes the children of the Jewish refugees in 1945-1948: Naama and Tami sisters, daughters of Leah Ben-Dov Spivak, and Avi Shilo, son of Shmulik Shilo, arrived from Israel for filming the film to be broadcast by RAI in January 2018. The film will be entitled:”Sciesopoli, children’s home“, produced by Read more…
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The visit of Avraham Aviel 16-04-2016
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
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Discovering Sciesopoli, July-August 2017
The municipal administration of Selvino in collaboration with the Association “Oter” promotes at the Municipal Library “Discovering Sciesopoli” From 10:00 am Every Tuesday of July 4, 11, 18, 25 And August 1, 8, 17, 22, 29 exhibition “Sciesopoli, the Jewish Children’s House” by archivist Bernardino Pasinelli and thanks to the Read more…
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The Professor Arie Reich visits Selvino
Arie Reich – a Professor from Bar Ilan University in Israel who is an expert in international trade law and European Union law – is the son of Yoel (Julek) Reich, a “Child of Selvino”. On 7 June 2017 he visited Selvino and the former alpine colony of Sciesopoli together with his Read more…
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Our greeting to Yitzhak Livnat
On March 27, 2017, Yitzhak Livnat, who was called Suti Weisz, a generous and combative Child of Selvin, who was a sensitive and poetical soul, who had just reached 87 years, was missing. He was born in 1930 in Nagyszolos, Ukraine. We were lucky enough to know him, to be Read more…
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The journey of Memory for Sciesopoli and the Children of Selvino
Sciesopoli – la Casa dei Bambini di Selvino (1945-1948) Giro in bicicletta di Giovani Bloisi (Tel. +39 328.141 6574) Da Varano Borghi (Varese) a Yad Vashem (Israele) Marzo-Aprile 2017 CALENDARIO TAPPE 13 marzo 2017 Tradate ore 11: Conferenza stampa 15 marzo 2017 Milano ore 10: Monte Stella, Cerimonia Gariwo Read more…
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On the road stands a tree
The song “On the road there is a tree” is Yiddish language and is titled: “Oyfn veg shteyt to Boym”. He tells of a mother who does not fly his baby on the tree of life to have it loaded with too many clothes. It was the favorite song of Read more…
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Interview with Noga Donath Cohen (by Enrico Grisanti)
In tribute and remembrance of Noga Donath Cohen, the friend and director Enrico Grisanti has prepared a nice video that gives us a lively and strong Noga, with a huge affection for “his Children of Selvino”, they always reciprocated. Noga is at Kibbutz Zeelim in Israel for the international meeting Read more…
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The passing of Noga Donath Cohen
Dear friends, With much sorrow I am relating to you this message, about the passing of Noga Donath. She was 95 years old and lived a full life, with extra ordinary experiences! She was a noble woman, loved her “Selvino children” as if they were hers! We all miss her Read more…
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Ayala Lieberman-Aviel is dead
The entire Selvino family here in Israel, is very sorry to let you know about the Passing of Ayala Lieberman-Aviel, wife of Avraham Aviel, mother of Zipi, Dudi and Sarit, grandmother of their children. The funeral will take place tomorrow in Tel Aviv. Our heartfelt condolences go out to Read more…