{ "clip_details": { "clip": { "is_admin": 0, "is_owner": 0, "handle": "photograph-1945", "title": "THE PHOTOGRAPH, 1945", "author": "Bernhard Rosenberg", "author_handle": "bernhardrosenberg", "author_initials": "BR", "covertext": "Time has not dulled its shock. More than half a century has passed Since first I came upon the image. And still I see it...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<div>Time has not dulled its shock.</div>\n<div>More than half a century has passed</div>\n<div>Since first I came upon the image.</div>\n<div>And still I see it in my mind’s eye,</div>\n<div>And freshly feel it stab my once-young soul,</div>\n<div>grown old.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>Glasses. A mountain of eyeless glasses.</div>\n<div>Captured in a flash for all eternity.</div>\n<div>How many, I asked myself then and still ask now?</div>\n<div>Ten thousand? Fifty thousand? Ten times fifty thousand?</div>\n<div>How many eyeglasses does it take to build a tower</div>\n<div>reaching half-way up to an unseeing God?</div>\n<div>Once fragile objects treated with care</div>\n<div>that perched on the noses</div>\n<div>of myopic yeshiva students,</div>\n<div>of far-sighted old men,</div>\n<div>of visionary poets,</div>\n<div>of astigmatic tailors,</div>\n<div>of squinting young girls—</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>They’re piled up, impossibly high.</div>\n<div>Mute witnesses, they stare out,</div>\n<div>Accusing an indifferent world.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>In its deep silence, the tower spoke to me,</div>\n<div>More than fifty years ago.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>It has been my abacus.</div>\n<div>It has taught me to count to Six Million.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>And time has not dimmed its eloquence.</div>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "GERDA BIKALES", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Commentary / Readings", "slug": "commentary-readings" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 164, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "THE PHOTOGRAPH, 1945 | Passover haggadah by Bernhard Rosenberg", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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Let us surround our worship, our community in praye...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><span>We begin our service in the remembrance of the Holocaust in silence. Let us surround our worship, our community in prayer, with silence in preparation for the presence of God.</span><span> <br /></span></p>\n<div><span><span>Silence does not just bring to a standstill words and noise.  Silence is more than the temporary renunciation of speech.  It is a door opening before prayer, toward the very realms of the spirit and the heart.  Silence is the beginning of a reckoning of the soul, the prelude to an account of the past and the consideration of the present, may our shared silence lead us to awareness of a time of total evil that degraded out most precious values, the very meaning of religious existence, and life itself.  Our silence is to be a committed accounting for other silences, that accepted persecutions and were indifferent to debasement and crime.  For there was a time when silence was a crime. </span></span></div>\n<div><span> </span></div>\n<div><span><span>We think particularly of one night of silence, over half a century ago: <i>Kristallnacht, </i>the night of the broken glass, the 9^th of November, 1938.  Then, all the synagogues in Germany rose up in flame and smoke to the skies.  The churches next to them stood in darkness, and in silence.  Glass littered the streets-the broken shop-windows of the Jewish community.  The neighbors walked upon the crunching splinters and were silent.  A few prayed.  Some churches courageously expressed their grief. But a dark cloud of silence filled the world.  When will that silence end?  When will we speak out on behalf of suffering neighbors? Not until we affirm God together, not until we acknowledge that we are all God’s children.  From the silence of uncaring, let us move on to the silence, which is the search for God, the search for ourselves. Then we can move beyond that silence and affirm the One God, we can proclaim God’s name to the world. </span></span></div>\n<div><span> </span></div>\n<p><span> </span></p>", "cliptype": "text", "clipsource": "Unknown", "featured": 0, "featuredIn": null, "is_public": 1, "is_published": 1, "media": { "image": null, "audio": null, "video": null }, "thumbnail": null, "clip_section": [ { "haggadah_section": "Introduction", "slug": "introduction" } ], "likes": 0, "downloads": 162, "tags": [], "themes": [], "language": "0", "is_bookmarked": "0", "is_liked": 0, "meta_tags": { "title": "A Meditation Before the Seder | Passover haggadah by Bernhard Rosenberg", "description": "Our simple platform allows you to create a custom Passover Haggadah, with access to unique content contributed by our community. 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For example, this is a letter I sent to my youngest...", "user_image": "", "user_image_original": "", "body": "<p><i><span><span>During the seder a  story of the families heritage would be recited.</span></span></i></p>\n<p><i><span><span>For example, this is a letter I sent to my youngest son, Ari, 18, who is a student at Yeshivat Shaarei Mevaseret Zion in Israel. He went on the Heritage Tour to Poland last month with hundreds of other students. Each is asked to speak about their family’s heritage on the trip.</span></span></i></p>\n<div><span> </span></div>\n<div><span>Dear Ari:</span></div>\n<div><span>This is your heritage as we know it: Your grandparents, Rachel and Jacob Rosenberg of blessed memory did not speak much about their families who were all murdered, and I did not ask questions since I knew it would hurt them terribly.</span></div>\n<div><span> </span></div>\n<div><span>They died before the Shoah programs of getting parents to give witness were started by (Steven) Spielberg.</span></div>\n<div><span> </span></div>\n<div><span>Out of both their large families, only one half sister of Zeide’s, his aunt, Regina, survived. She and her daughter, Maria Devinki, and Maria’s husband, Fred Devinki, were able to pay a farmer to hide them during the war.</span></div>\n<div><span> </span></div>\n<div><span>Jacob Rosenberg, your grandfather, was born in Wodzislaw or Wrodzislaw (spelled many different ways), Poland. His parents, Berish and Feigel Miriam lived with their children on a street next to several other of their relatives. At least five houses were owned by their extended family.</span></div>\n<div><span> </span></div>\n<div><span>We visited the town several years ago and found Jacob’s original birth certificate in the town hall records. Maria and her family hired someone years ago who found the original deed to the land our family owned, which is now the parking of the town hall.</span></div>\n<div><span><span> </span></span></div>\n<div><span>Jacob had four brothers and sisters, all married with children before the war. Jacob also was married before the war and had two children who were murdered. We do not know their names, but he worked in the town of Bezdin in the meat business.</span></div>\n<div><br /> <span>Jacob was in several concentration camps, escaped, was a partisan fighter, was shot and captured again and ended up in Auschwitz from which he was liberated. He had a tattooed number on his arm, but we cannot find the records at this point. We did find the old large shul in the town, which is falling down and dangerous to enter. There was a plaque on the outside wall indicating the Jews who were rounded up and taken to Treblinka.</span></div>\n<div><span> </span></div>\n<div><span>Rachel Rosenberg’s maiden name was Frankel. Her parents were Jacob and Bluma. She had four brothers and sister who also were married with children. Her family was well off and owned a leather factory in Cracow. 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