UNRRAs Vita Båtar - Samling i Trelleborg och första resan.

Lastutrymmet på M/S Rönnskär. Mor och dotter? Säkert från Bergen-Belsen!

Trelleborgs Tidningen rapporterade flitigt om UNRRAs Vita Båtar då hamnen och redden i Trelleborg var samlingsplatsen för de fem deltagande båtarna liksom för de tyska minsvepare som skulle eskortera de svenska fartygen hela vägen till Lübeck. 

På väg från Trelleborg till Lübeck. Tyska minsvepare och andra Vita Båtar fotograferade från S/S Kastelholm.

På väg från Trelleborg till Lübeck. HMS Prins Carl följer efter S/S Kastelholm.

Hamnen i Lübeck.

Trelleborgs Tidningen rapporterade flitigt om UNRRAs Vita Båtar då hamnen och redden i Trelleborg var samlingsplatsen för de fem deltagande båtarna liksom för de tyska minsvepare som skulle eskortera de svenska fartygen hela vägen till Lübeck. Det var M/S Karskär som lämnade Trelleborg först, redan den 22 juni med tysk minsvepareskort. De övriga firade midsommarafton ute på Trelleborgs redd och avgick på eftermiddagen den 23 juni. Även de eskorterades av tre tyska minsvepare från Kriegsmarines med hemmahamn, marinbasen i Kiel. Båtarna följde i huvudsak en utmärkt led från Trelleborg till Travemündes redd. Distansen mellan Trelleborg och Travemünde var c:a 150 sjömil. Det tog drygt 11 timmar. Medelfart 11 knop. Från Travemünde redden fortsatte fartygen till hamnen i Lübeck mha en tysk lots då det fanns i floden Trave en massa vrak av tyska krigsfartyg.

Under 27 och 28 juni 1945 togs följande antal patienter ombord på de svenska fartygen:

• Kronprinsessan Ingrid 424
• Karskär 198
• Rönnskär 170
• Kastelholm 220
• Prins Carl 180

På vägen tillbaka gjorde alla fartygen ett stopp för den korta natten på redden i Travemünde och startade därefter mycket tidigt på morgonen färden mot Sverige. En del av patienter från Kronprinsessan Ingrid som avgick från Travemünde den 27 juni 1945 och Kastelholm lämnades i hamnar i södra Sverige medan de patienter som var i sämre skick fördes vidare till Göteborg respektive till Stockholm.

Vid sin första resa har M/S Karskär och Rönnskär råkat ut för dåligt väder (28 juni 1945) med svår sjögång, vilket givetvis var ytterst påfrestande för både patienter och sjukvårdspersonal. Dessutom den i Lübeck installerade bullerutrustningen som var skydd mot akustiska minor avgav ett även inombords i handelsfartygen vars lastrum inte var isolerade ett oljud som var en svår plåga för både patienter och personal. Oljudet hörs i Sveriges Radios inspelningar från M/S Rönnskär då reportern Manne Berggren går runt med sin mikrofon bland sjukvårdspersonal och de före detta fångarna.

Flera patienter dör på sjukhuset i Lübeck och en del under resorna. Den första som dör är Szylvia Weiss bara några timmar innan HMS Prins Carls ls till i Kalmar. Hon dör lördagen den 30 juni kl 01.30. Szylvia blev 37 år gammal.

Patienterna kördes i brittiska arméns ambulanser från Svenska Transit Sjukhuset i Lübeck till hamnen som låg mitt i staden. 

Hamnen i Lübeck. Patienterna kördes i brittiska arméns ambulanser från Svenska Transit Sjukhuset i Lübeck till hamnen som låg mitt i staden. 

UNRRAs Vita Båtar. Det ombyggda lastutrymmet på M/S Rönnskär.

Dagens Nyheter har inte velat att titta "under däcket" eller ta bilder när Förintelsens offer, sjuka och utmärglade skulle tas ombord på UNRRAs Vita Båtar. Men valde att ta bilder på de friskaste. Kanske för att lugna svenskarna som var rädda för epidemier och liknande.

Vad hade propagandan om de Vita bussarna åstadkommit? Vilka är de och var fanns de "15 000 befriade Judar"?

Florida Guld Coast University skriver:

The Swedish Red Cross White Bus Rescue Action was a mission undertaken by the Swedish Red Cross and the Danish government to rescue prisoners of Nazi concentration camps in the last months of World War II. Count Folke Bernadotte (co-chairman of the Swedish Red Cross) engaged in a series of clandestine meetings with Heinrich Himmler (overseer of the concentration camps and head of the SS and Gestapo) to negotiate the release of more prisoners over the course of the rescue action. The operation convened drivers and nurses, as well as 36 buses, at Malmö Castle. The operation launched on March 9, 1945. The buses were painted white and tagged with a red cross on top to signal their purpose to Allied forces.

Initially intended to rescue only Scandinavians, the White Buses ultimately liberated 15,500 Holocaust victims of over twenty different nationalities in 54 days. We honor these heroes!

Man skriver att: White Buses ultimately liberated 15,500 Holocaust victims of over twenty different nationalities in 54 days. "Befriade 15 500 Holocaust victims", således judar och ev. romer. Fel siffror då antalet judar som kom med Vita bussar var ett par tusen 2000 - 3000.

Röda Korset på Facebook skriver:

stdoernoSp324u9t 50c406a2gr0n20tta15a5f19auaj7g3g0 ai20l27g3  · Röda Korsets vita bussar räddade 15 000 människor ur förintelseläger under andra världskrigets slutskede och har blivit en symbol för mod och civilkurage.

Men,Vita bussar började sina transporter först i mars 1945. Vita bussar har inte transporterat från någon av de 6 förintelselägren. Sista förintelseläger befriades av Röda armén i mitten av januari 1945. I förintelseläger fanns huvudsakligen judar ochundantagsvis romer. Fel siffror då antalet judar som kom med Vita bussar var ett par tusen 2000 - 3000.

När det gäller judar så har de flesta kommit med de absolut sista transporterna, den 28 april 1945 (ankomst till Malmö). Troligen transporterade Vita bussar fler tyskar (inkl. nazister) än judar. De förstnämnda kom med stor packning, hundar och papegojor.

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Röda korsets skriver på FB att Vita bussar räddade 15 000 människor ur förintelseläger. Vita bussar började sina transporter i mars 1945. Sista förintelseläger befriades i mitten av januari 1945. I förintelseläger fanns huvudsakligen judar ochundantagsvis romer. Fel siffror då antalet judar som kom med Vita bussar var enbart ett par tusen 2000 - 3000.

Röda Korsets vita bussar räddade 15 000 människor ur förintelseläger under andra världskrigets slutskede och har blivit en symbol för mod och civilkurage.Röda Korsets vita bussar räddade 15 000 människor ur förintelseläger under andra världskrigets slutskede och har blivit en symbol för mod och civilkurage.

Nytt i beskrivningen av de Vita bussarna: "Efter flykten till Sverige i en av Folke Bernadottes Vita bussar förblev hon övertygad nazist i sitt nya hemland." - Om fiktiva Vita bussar.

 

Simon Winge skrev igår i tidningen Expressen: Vera Oredsson har en lång historia som nazist. Under uppväxten i Nazityskland gick hon som 14-åring med i Bund Deutscher Mädel, nazistpartiets organisation för flickor.

Simon Winge skrev igår i tidningen Expressen: 

Vera Oredsson har en lång historia som nazist. Under uppväxten i Nazityskland gick hon som 14-åring med i Bund Deutscher Mädel*, nazistpartiets organisation för flickor.

Efter flykten till Sverige i en av Folke Bernadottes Vita bussar förblev hon övertygad nazist i sitt nya hemland. Åren 1975 till 1978 ledde hon de svenska nazisterna i Nordiska rikspartiet...

Inget nytt för mig då jag skrev redan ett flertal gånger att de Vita Bussarna transporterade troligen fler tyskar och nazister till Sverige än judar och att detta bör undersökas närmare. Därför blir jag glad när Simon Vinge använder skriver rakt på sak "flykten till Sverige i en av Folke Bernadottes Vita bussar" och 
 "förblev hon övertygad nazist i sitt nya hemland".

*Bund Deutscher Mädel - BDM var den kvinnliga motsvarigheten till Hitlerjugend

Tidigare texter och bilder finns i i denna blogg. Använd sökordet Vita Bussar eller White buses.

Vita bussar. Veit Harlan och Kristina Söderbaum i Lübeck i april 1945. Veit Harlan producerade och Kristina Söderbaum medverkade i ett flertal av hans antisemitiska filmer, inte bara den mest mycket grova ”Jud Süss”. De stannade i Nazitysklam ända tills dess undergång och tycks ha flytt till Sverige mha Vita bussar i april-maj 1945.. Veit Harlan producerade och Kristina Söderbaum medverkade i ett flertal av hans antisemitiska filmer, inte bara den mest mycket grova ”Jud Süss”. De stannade i Nazityskland ända tills dess undergång och tycks ha flytt till Sverige mha Vita bussar i april-maj 1945.

Tyskar med svensk anknytning ville redan i februari 1945 "hem".
Deras tidigare "ljuva hem" var Nazityskland

Tyskar på väg till Sverige.
Deras tidigare "ljuva hem" var Nazityskland

Det fanns riktiga och fiktiva Vita bussar. De riktiga var aktiva i Nazityskland. De andra var lokala bussar från Malmö och Göteborg med chaufförer som körde i Södra Sverige eller till de danska färjorna. Chaufförer och Vita bussar som avbildas ofta, senast av Förintelsemuseet i Stockholm är de fiktiva bussarna. Varför? Finns där bara arkeologer? Fråga forskargruppen inom Föreningen Förintelsens Minne. Vi kan ämnet.

The world should be horrified by a Jewish atrocity concerning demolishing of the Holocaust Monuments in Europe and in the USA.

The world should be horrified by a Jewish atrocity concerning demolishing of the Holocaust Monuments in Europe and in the USA.

The destruction of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 (right photo) led to global condemnation of the Taliban regime. When the Jews from the conservative congregations (left photo) perform similar acts there is almost no condemnation, not in the world, not among the Jews. That was the question, actually a statement of one of my American friends. She added that it was an extremely wicked or cruel act to demolish, and desecrate Korczak´s and Holocaust Monument dedicated to the over 1 000 000 Jewish children murdered during the Holocaust.

The destruction of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 led to global condemnation of the Taliban regime. When the Jews from the conservative congregations perform similar acts there is almost no condemnation, not in the world, not among the Jews. That was the question, actually a statement of one of my American friends that compared the desecration of the Holocaust Monument at Madison Avenue with Taliban regimen actions in Afghanistan.

The destruction of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 led to global condemnation of the Taliban regime. When the Jews from the conservative congregations perform similar acts there is almost no condemnation, not in the world, not among the Jews. That was the question, actually a statement of one of my American friends that compared the desecration of the Holocaust Monument at Madison Avenue with Taliban regimen actions in Afghanistan.

Pomnik Korczaka i Dzieci na Madison Avenue zrujnowany przez nowe pokolenie Żydów w Nowym Jorku.

Po lewej, Monument Holokaustu, pomnik Korczaka i Dzieci na Madison Avenue w Nowym Yorku. Zrujnowany totalnie przez nowe pokolenie Żydów w Nowym Jorku. Na miejsce Monumentu wstawiono okna trzy okna, tak by Żydzi z Synagogi Park Avenue mieli lepszą perspektywę...

Piękny tryptyk o trzech elewacjach na ścianie synagogi na Nowojorskim Manhattanie był chyba pierwszym w Nowym Yorku "Monumentem Zagłady".  Jego twórcą w 1980 roku był Nathan Rapoport. 

Na dolnym reliefie z brązu (3) upamiętnił Rapoport Janusza Korczaka otoczonego dziećmi z sierocińca w Warszawskim Getcie. Wszyscy jakby unosili się w niebiosa. 

Na środkowej elewacji tryptyku (2), na 16 kamieniach była wyryta dedykacja; „Błogosławionej Pamięci Miliona Żydowskich Dzieci Ofiar Holokaustu”. 

Na górnej elewacji (1) w kompozycji „Zwycięstwo”, przedstawił Rapoport motyw z Jerozolimskiego „Zwoju Ognia” z 1971 roku: triumfalny pochód współczesnych Izraelczyków, m.in. Haluca i żołnierza izraelskiego z menorą powracających do Erec Izrael (parafraza do znanego reliefu z rzymskiego Łuku Tytusa gdzie idący, wynoszą m.in. Menorę. Na reliefie Rapoporta niosący Menorę, idą w przeciwnym kierunku niż na Łuku Tytusa).

Dlaczego używam czasu przeszłego w tym opisie? Podczas pisania książki o Korczaku, pomnik Korczaka i Dzieci na Madison Avenue został zrujnowany przez nowe pokolenie Żydów z Park Avenue Synagogi w Nowym Jorku. Przez 40 lat, jak jeszcze Holocaust Survivors (Ocalali) w Nowym Yorku żyli, zdobił ten tryptyk fasadę konserwatywnej synagogi w Nowym Jorku. Teraz, na Madison Avenue prawie nic nie pozostało po pomniku oprócz napisu זכור , "Pamiętaj" w języku hebrajskim. Dwie figuralne płaskorzeźby z brązu z oryginalnego pomnika, zostały wyrwane i przyczepione na bocznej ulicy tuż przed oknami biurowymi synagogi. Przyczepione bez żadnego tła ani opisu. Są trudne do zobaczenia gdyż zasłaniają je drzewa. Płaskorzeźby nie są już wolne jak poprzednio na Madison Avenue, ale przymocowane do ciężkich pionowych i poziomych żelaznych prętów, które dodatkowo niszczą widok płaskorzeźby. Płaskorzeźba z brązu Korczak i dzieci miała przedstawiać „wolne dzieci z wychowawcą”. Teraz są uwięzieni przez ciężkie żelazne pręty. Aby zobaczyć płaskorzeźby, trzeba przejść na drugą stronę ulicy, bo chodnik na ulicy 87 jest mały, a na to co zostało z pomnika jest trudno odcyfrować gdyż oprócz belek rzuca cień drzew uniemożliwia rozróżnienie zlewających sie postaci na płaskorzeźbie.

Moją bardzo osobistą refleksją, gdy stałem na chodniku na 87-ulicy z podniesiona maksymalnie głową, było to, że Janusza Korczaka i dzieci z Domu Dziecka umieszczono na żelaznych kratach, jak ciała do kremacji zwłok na rusztach z szyn w Treblince. W Treblince bowiem ciała zagazowanych ofiar układano na szynach, rusztach, ochlapywano benzyną i palono. Stosy działały 24 godziny na dobę. Po udoskonaleniu systemu można było spalić jednorazowo 10 000–12 000 ciał. Właściwie cała moja warszawska rodzina, około 100 osób, została zamordowana w Treblince.

Donatorzy tryptyku, Leon i Anya Jolson, Żydzi rodem z Polski, ufundowali Monument Nathana Rapoporta dla przyszłych pokoleń, gdy on sami, których rodziny zostały zamordowane, odejdą.

Jestem z drugiego pokolenia po Holokauście. Prawie całe rodziny mojego Ojca i mojej Mamy zostały zamordowane w 1942 roku. Mam nadzieje że nie jestem sam w mojej opinii jeżeli chodzi o te nikczemne zburzenie Monumentu w chwili gdy miał przypominać przyszłym pokoleniom ten okres z historii Europejskich Żydów. A o ile stoję sam w mojej opinii, to stoi za mną  sześć milionów Żydów zamordowanych podczas Holokaustu.

Bardziej dokładny opis Zburzenia Monumentu jest na stronie angielskiej:

https://jimbaotoday.blogspot.com/2023/06/park-avenue-synagogue-congregation-and.html

Obecny widok. 3 to okno które Żydzi z "Synagogi Park Avenue" wstawili w miejscu, gdzie od początku znajdowała się płaskorzeźba z brązu „Janusz Korczak i dzieci z Domu Dziecka”. Żydowska konserwatywna kongregacja, Park Avenue Synagogue, dokonała wg. mnie profanacji Pomnika Holokaustu przy Madison Avenue. Zrobili to bez zgody darczyńców, Ocalałych rodem z Polski. Zgładzono pomnik sławnego Rapoporta, dzieło sztuki, które zostało specjalnie wkomponowane w budynek od samego początku, już na etapie planowania budynku. Kiedy zerwano Ostatni spacer Korczaka (3) Żydzi z "Synagogi Park Avenue" wstawili w miejscu, gdzie od początku znajdowała się płaskorzeźba z brązu „Janusz Korczak i dzieci z Domu Dziecka” (3), nowe okna. Dzięki tej "Akcji" nieznana, zapewne bardzo zasłużona osoba dostała pokój z widokiem na Medison Avenue.

Żydowska konserwatywna kongregacja, Park Avenue Synagogue, dokonała wg. mnie profanacji Pomnika Holokaustu przy Madison Avenue. Zrobili to bez zgody darczyńców, Ocalałych rodem z Polski. Zgładzono pomnik sławnego artysty, Nathana Rapoporta, dzieło sztuki, które zostało specjalnie wkomponowane w budynek od samego początku, już na etapie planowania budynku. Kiedy zerwano Ostatni spacer Korczaka (3) Żydzi z "Synagogi Park Avenue" wstawili w miejscu, gdzie od początku znajdowała się płaskorzeźba z brązu „Janusz Korczak i dzieci z Domu Dziecka” (czerwona kreska), nowe okna. Dzięki tej "Akcji" nieznana, zapewne bardzo zasłużona osoba dostała pokój z widokiem na Medison Avenue.

Park Avenue Synagogue Congregation and 6 000 000 Shadow People, among them 1 500 000 Children. All of them perished during the Holocaust - זכור - Silent desecration of the Holocaust Monument in New York.

Children and their "shadows" of the Łódz ghetto (Litzmannstadt ghetto) - Last dance before the deportation to the death camp where they were murdered by suffocation in the gas chamber.

Shadow people are different! Especially those murdered during the Holocaust. 6 000 000 Jews and among them 1 500 000 children.

Why am I discussing suddenly "Shadow People"? The explanation is that it was actually the subject that representatives of the Jewish congregation Park Avenue Synagogue were most interested in when I tried to discuss the desecration by them of the Holocaust Monument at Madison Avenue. The monument was especially dedicated to Jewish children that perished during this dark period of Jewish history. Representatives of the Jewish congregation Park Avenue Synagogue question about Shadow people that support me was very special because we were supposed to discuss how the Monument can be restored at its right place!

Jewish congregation Park Avenue Synagogue in New York performed the desecration of the Holocaust Monument at Madison Avenue without permission from the donors. The monument by Nathan Rapoport was especially dedicated to Jewish children that perished during this dark period of Jewish history.

The Holocaust Monument was planned together with the Educational building. The corner or North bay on the Madison Avenue facade has solid stone panels in place of windows.

Jewish congregation, Park Avenue Synagogue, performed the desecration of the Holocaust Monument at Madison Avenue without permission from the donors. The monument was an artwork that was specially incorporated into the building from the very beginning, already when the Educational building was planned. Now, the only item that is left between the former top and middle panel (between 1 and 2) is the stone with one word in Hebrew - Remember. Of this action, Park Avenue Synagogue got three rooms with windows at Madison Avenue. Until recently, the monument, the tryphtyk including two sculpters in bronze and 16 stones with inscription could be seen above the Madison Avenue entrance to this beautiful synagogue, where according to rabbi at Park Avenue Synagogue, "every Jew and non-Jew who comes into the orbit of this institution and what it represents – all of these are thundering statements that the values of Korczak, his children, those murdered in the Warsaw Ghetto and all the Six Million live on." These words were delivered in the sermon year 2013. The rabbi, Eliot J Cosgrove, continued: Tomorrow evening we will begin our observance of Yom HaShoah – Holocaust Remembrance Day. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. When the establishment of Yom HaShoah was first proposed by Israel’s Prime Minister Ben-Gurion, the suggested date was the fourteenth of Nissan, corresponding to April 19, 1943 – the day upon which the ghetto uprising began. (That date was not chosen, because it would not have worked to observe a memorial day on erev Pesah.) In fact, the name of the commemoration was initially Yom HaShoah u’Mered HaGetaot, Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust and Ghetto Uprising. Even as it is now called – Yom HaShoah V’HaGevurah, Holocaust and Bravery Remembrance Day – our memorial is linked to the events of this one particular uprising which began exactly 70 years ago. One single stone from the original Monument with זכור (Remember) was left at Madison Avenue (just below number 1). Maybe to remember this obvious desecration! According to the law, the Monument can not be removed from its present location. It can not be divided or reinstalled in a different way as the artist, the donators, and the owners of the building agreed. The Monument should be therefore promptly reinstalled, exactly in the way it was before.

Jewish conservative congregation, Park Avenue Synagogue, performed the desecration of the Holocaust Monument at Madison Avenue without permission from the donors. The monument was an artwork that was specially incorporated into the building from the very beginning, already when the Educational building was planned.  When Korczak´s Last Walk (3) was taken away the congregation put new windows at the place where the bronze relief "Janusz Korczak and the Orphanage Children" was from the very beginning (red bar).  Through this "Action", an unknown, probably very distinguished person got a room with a view of Medison Avenue.

Zoom discussion with Jewish congregation Park Avenue Synagogue representatives. I hoped that I will at least receive an explanation of why the congregation demolished the first Holocaust monument in New York. I wanted also to know what happened to the inscription and 16 stones. The only information I got was that it happened during the remodeling of the building and the fate of the 16 stones with the inscription "TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE MILLION JEWISH CHILDREN WHO PERISHED IN THE HOLOCAUST" (middle panel, number 2 on photos). The sacred definition is: considered to be holy and deserving respect, especially because of a connection with a God. The cited above words of rabbi seem to have very little effect as the Holocaust memorial was, in natural absence of Holocaust survivors, taken away by the new Jewish generation in New York.

So actually, also what was left after the original memorial, two figural bronze reliefs that moved to the front of office windows without any background or description are difficult to see. Reliefs are no longer free but fastened to heavy vertical and horizontal iron bars that further deteriorate the reliefs. Korczak and the Children bronze relief was meant to show "free children with their educator". Now they are imprisoned by the heavy iron bars. One has to cross the street to see the reliefs as the sidewalk on 87 Street is small and also trees are shadowing what was left of the monument.
My very personal reflection when standing at 87th Street was that Janusz Korczak and the Orphanage children were put on the iron bars like the bodies for cremation in Treblinka. In Treblinka, railroad rails were laid as grates on blocks of concrete, and the victim's bodies were placed on rails over wood, splashed with petrol, and burned. The pyres operated 24 hours a day. Once the system had been perfected, 10,000–12,000 bodies at a time could be incinerated Actually my entire Warsaw family, approximately 100 persons, was murdered in Treblinka.

I hoped that conversation with Mr. Mark First would give some information about the reason for this clear desecration of the Holocaust Monument, the artwork of the famous Nathan Rapoport donated by two Holocaust survivors. The artwork called "Korczak's Last Walk" was a bastion of remembrance, hope, and community for the Jewish population in New York as well as for visitors from abroad. Nathan Rapoport monument at Madison Avenue was dedicated particularly to Jewish children and part of it, a bronze relief, portrays Janusz Korczak, as he led 239 orphans during the liquidation of the Warszawa Ghetto on August 5, 1942. The children were led through the entire ghetto to the cattle trains that would take them to their final destination, death camp Treblinka.

 
The inscription in the middle panel (2) gave information about Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust. Until recently, the monument, the tryphtyk including two sculptures in bronze and 16 stones with inscriptions could be seen above the Madison Avenue entrance to this beautiful synagogue, where according to the rabbi at Park Avenue Synagogue,:

"every Jew and non-Jew who comes into the orbit of this institution and what it represents – all of these are thundering statements that the values of Korczak, his children, those murdered in the Warsaw Ghetto and all the Six Million live on.". Six Million - 6 000 000 Jews are now just shadows and the memory of them was kept until recently by this important Holocaust Monument. Now, they are gone! By they, I mean the Holocaust victims and the Holocaust survivors that wanted to keep the history of Jewish people, also the dark periods, alive.

Back to my Zoom discussion with Jewish congregation Park Avenue Synagogue representatives. I hoped that I will at least receive an explanation of why the congregation demolished the first Holocaust monument in New York. I wanted also to know what happened to the inscription and 16 stones. The only information I got was that it happened during the remodeling of the building and the fate of the 16 stones with the inscription "TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE MILLION JEWISH CHILDREN WHO PERISHED IN THE HOLOCAUST". The sacred definition is: considered to be holy and deserving respect, especially because of a connection with a God. The cited words of the rabbi seem to have very little effect as the care of the Holocaust memorial by the new Jewish generation in New York simply demolished it.

So the info I got from the highest representatives of Park Avenue concerning the decision of demolishing the Holocaust memorial and also describe the process leading to that, as well as earlier requested information about what happened to 16 stones from the middle panel of the memorial were not answered. Or concerning 16 stones, I got a simple answer "We do not know". However, they wanted to know who the shadow people (Mr. Mark First description) were? Who in the world is involved and wants to reinstall the Holocaust Monument at the place that was decided by the donors and Park Avenue Synagogue representatives. 

I wanted to say that there are 6 000 000 of the Shadow People behind me but I disliked making the atmosphere more tense than it already was!

Perspective and windows

Mr. Mark First talked that my perspective differs from theirs. That was obvious that their perspective changed concerning the way of remembering the Holocaust. After demolishing the artwork by Rapoport, they got three new rooms in the building with a beautiful perspective of Madison Avenue...

Copyright
During our talk, Mr. Mark First pointed out that Nathan Rapoport Monument named "Korczak Last Walk" was a donation from the J family nowadays belongs to the Jewish Congregation. I reminded him that it does not mean that Park Avenue Congregation can do whatever they want to do it. According to my friends, the layers, specializing in copyright and art (from Israel and Europe) it is not allowed to make changes in the art or remove it from the building that was an integral part of the art.
Copyright protection in the United States exists automatically from the moment the original work of authorship is fixed. So the Holocaust Monument that was "fixed" by Nathan Rapoport in 1979 has this very strong copyright protection. This means the original work can not be removed or rearranged without the permission of the author. Park Avenue Synagogue, as I understand the law, had no right to demolish Rapoport's art. Placing parts of the Monument at 87th Street is therefore not legal. This has nothing to do with the ownership of the Monument itself or the building it has been placed on. Thus, especially as the Monument was built as a part of the building and no windows were planned there.
The description of the Monument is rather clear as published during 1979-1980 in Park Avenue Synagogues' own Bulletin. Also, the stone of the building was chosen to fill the requirements for Monument. Thus, both as the background and the part of Jewish history as described by Nathan Rapoport.

Agreement with donors - Conditions
According to Barbara Blumenthal, daughter of donors, her parent's donation, Nathan Rapoport Monument named "Korczak Last Walk" was meant to be an integral part of the building and be placed just over the entrance from Madison Avenue. These conditions were fulfilled and it is likely that the congregation accepted these conditions during the years 1979-2019. It is likely that there must be a kind of Donation Agreement, written proof for a donation.

Description of the Holocaust Monument by Richard Yaffe
Description of the Holocaust Monument by Richard Yaffe, a journalist, and editor-in-chief of Israel Horizons magazine. He was also a special correspondent for CBS, spoke to sculptor Nathan Rapoport while the work was being created and reported on the conversation in his 1980 book Nathan Rapoport Sculptures and Monuments:

“Rapoport was hard at work on the finishing touches, the casting in bronze, of his latest project, for the entrance of the new school of the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. Rapoport im­mediately saw the school as the perfect place for a memorial to Janusz Korczek. Luckily, Dr. Judah Nadich, the rabbi of the congregation, did not need any convincing to dedicate the school to this martyr and his schoolchildren, and to the million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust.

"What I have done," Rapoport says, pointing to a sketch of the memorial, "is to symbolize the mar­tyrdom and redemption. You see the menorah com­ing back to Jerusalem from the Arch of Titus, which was put up in Rome to commemorate the defeat of the Jews and whose inscription says that Israel would not rise again. It is Titus' Rome that is in ruins, and it is Israel that has survived and is building."

Three people are carrying the menorah back to Jerusalem — a sabra (a native-born Israeli), the Israel Underground which liberated the country from the British, and the Zva Hagana Yisrael, or Zahal, the Israeli Army of Defense (now IDF). And the Angels of God proclaim the victory, "I brought back the menorah which is the symbol of redemption."”

The Holocaust Monument, Korczak Last Walk, all three panels, should be reinstalled at its former place, at the entrance to the building facing Madison Avenue according to the former agreement between the donors, Anya and Leon Jolson, and Park Avenue Synagogue..

My words are of stone and bronze

“My words are of stone and bronze – silent but everlasting,” said Nathan Rapoport, an outstanding creator of Holocaust memorials. But he was wrong! His Holocaust Memorial at Madison Avenue was just demolished and the fate of stones with words is unknown. Even the highest representatives of Par Avenu Synagogue had no slightest idea what happened to the stones* with "words": TO THE SACRED MEMORY OF THE MILLION JEWISH CHILDREN WHO PERISHED IN THE HOLOCAUST.

To read more about it open the link below:

https://jimbaotoday.blogspot.com/2023/05/to-sacred-memory-of-million-jewish.html

*  One stone with זכור (Remember) was left. Maybe to remember this obvious desecration! According to the law, the Monument can not be removed from its present location. It can not be divided or reinstalled in a different way as the artist, the donators, and the owners of the building agreed.
The Monument should be therefore promptly reinstalled, exactly in the way it was before.

Park Avenu synagogue has 6 000 members. I wonder how many of them got the important piece of information that the "remodeling" of the Educational building was actually the removal (desecration) of the Holocaust monument and inserting instead three new windows with a magnificent view of Madison Avenue.

Anya and Leon Jolson. Great couple of Holocaust survivors who throughout their entire life remembered their 6 000 000 brothers and sisters, Holocaust victims.

The entrance today. On the right one can read the description that The facade sculptures are the gift of two survivors of the Holocaust (Anya and Leon Jolson). However, the facade structures are not anymore there! Great couple of Holocaust survivors who throughout their entire life remembered their 6 000 000 brothers and sisters, Holocaust victims. 

"Rapoport was hard at work on the finishing touches, the casting in bronze, of his latest project, for the entrance of the new school of the Park Avenue Synagogue in New York City. Rapoport im­mediately saw the school as the perfect place for a memorial to Janusz Korczea. Luckily, Dr. Judah Nadich, the rabbi of the congregation, did not need any convincing to dedicate the school to this martyr and his schoolchildren, and to the million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust.

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Park Avenu synagogue has 6 000 members. I wonder how many of them got the important piece of information that the "remodeling" of the Educational building was actually the removal of the Holocaust monument and inserting instead three new windows with a magnificent view of Madison Avenue.

There are 1 412 000 Jewish people in the eight counties that compose New York and its environs. To this, however, one may add over 350,000 Jewish people in New Jersey and 50,000 in southern Connecticut, many of whom live in suburbs and bedroom communities that still look to New York City as their center.