“Though it can be said that we are meeting here because of a great evil that happened eighty years ago, our presence is evidence that this evil has not prevailed,” said Anna Włodek to people gathered at the Jewish cemetery in Tarnowskie Góry last Monday to commemorate the Jewish inhabitants of the city murdered during the Holocaust.
We were honored to participate in this moving event, which was the culmination of months of work of the Gliwicka 66 Association and specifically, Anna Włodek, a member of the Forum for Dialogue Network. The ceremony was attended by the descendants of Eliezer Nawarski, who was among those commemorated. Holocaust Survivor Anna Lewkowicz, his daughter, and Zvika Navarsky, his grandson took part in the ceremony. A unique commemoration: 78 plaques each bearing a name of one of the murdered people – was unveiled during the event. Students of the local high school, regular participants of Anna’s commemorative and educational efforts, read all these names out loud.
