Subject: Third Actzia in Skalat
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 13:03:31 +0300

I was at Yad VaShem yesterday for the first time since they installed 
their new compterized system for searching Pages of Testimony.

There was quite a bit of material that I hadn't seen before, but I only 
printed out a few pages.  Among those few were Rosa Pikholz, the 
teacher from Skalat, her brother Moshe (Munio) and his wife Bedka. 
The Pages were submitted last year by the daughter of Bedka's 
sister.

In recording these Pages today, I saw that Rosa and Munio were 
killed in the third actzia, which was 7 April 1943.  I don't usually 
keep track of all the Holocaust memorial days - there are so many 
and fact is we generally don't have the information who was killed 
when - but since the day is so close at hand, I looked it up.  The 
yahrzeit for the third actzia in Skalat is the second of Nisan - this 
Friday.

You might care to acknowledge that be reading the story of Rosa'a 
death as it appears in the Yizkor book for Skalat.  You can find the 
translation at

http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/skalat/p68.html

Israel P.

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