Aid, Memories, Paris and Pesach!
March has been a flurry of activity at The Together Plan with our humanitarian aid arriving in Minsk, we’ve been at a conference in Paris making plans for an exciting programme in Belarus on the theme of ‘Memory’ and the north London business community have pulled out all the stops for us. We take you on a journey to the past and share with you some fantastic recipes for the upcoming Passover festival.
To those who are celebrating – we wish you a very happy Pesach
Aid, borscht and positive change
How does humanitarian aid somehow support The Together Plan’s mission of cultural heritage and community capacity building, and how does borscht play a role?
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Making Memories in Paris
For the first time in three years – the Together Plan Belarus and UK team came together at a conference in Paris to explore the theme of ‘Memory’.
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80th anniversary of the Khatyn massacre
At Secondary School №37 in Minsk on 22nd March – students commemorated the massacre at Khatyn and met with two survivors of the Minsk Ghetto.
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Fundraising BNI heroes
Find out how the north London business community are really pulling out all the stops and going the extra mile in support of The Together Plan.
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Echoes of Jewish Druya
Take a virtual journey to the very north of Belarus and take a step back in time to the shtetl of Druya in days gone by.
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Together Plan Pesach recipes
With Pesach just around the corner – we bring you some fabulous tried and tested recipes.
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Gilbert’s Ghetto Guides
The experience of Jews in the area that is now Belarus has its rightful place in Sir Martin Gilbert’s histories of the Holocaust. As a feature of our monthly newsletter, a short excerpt from his writings is featured focusing on one of the cities, towns, villages, and forests where Jews tried desperately to escape the Nazi German murder machine.
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Belarus ancestry and archives - we can help
The Together Plan has been offering a fully bespoke, professional, archive research service for some years. Yet there has never been a more exciting time for people to connect to personal history – or for that history to have a greater impact on world knowledge!
Through our dedicated team of experienced archivists across Belarus, we have been astounded at the history we have been able to unearth over recent years, with an unparalleled richness of detail down to street names, livelihoods and even the animals people owned.
From the moment our team hears from new clients, we embark on a special journey together. With fragments of information about places, names and even buildings, we have been able to map back generations, providing a valuable glimpse into personal family history and all manner of information about daily life as it was.
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If you are looking to help to find records in the Belarus archives – we are ready to help you. Click here to find out how.
upcoming events
Against All Odds – online event
Sunday April 30th at midday PST, 3.00pm EST, 8.00pm BST 9.00pm Israel 10.00pm Belarus
Part 2 of a series dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the tunnel escape from the ghetto in Novogrudok, Belarus.
Online talk by Susan Abrams (nee Abramowicz) Bach (North Carolina)
Determination to survive against all odds is the theme of the true experiences of Joseph and Chaim Abramowitz. After suffering the loss of their families, each in his own way managed to escape from the ghetto in Novogrudok, Poland and join the fight against the Nazis.
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Making History Together Exhibition
Sunday 30th April 2023 from 2-5.30pm
Belmont United Synagogue , 101 Vernon Drive, Stanmore, HA7 2BW
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Film Night at the Pump House
Yentl
1983 Barbara Streisand Musical
17th May at The Pump House, Watford, Hertfordhsire WD17 2JP
Doors open at 19.00, film starts 19.30
The year is 1904. Rebbe Mendel is a single father who teaches the Talmud, a sacred text of Judaism, to the boys of his small Polish town. Behind closed doors, he also instructs his daughter, Yentl, despite the fact that girls are forbidden to study religious scripture. When Yentl’s father dies, she still has a strong desire to learn about her faith — so she disguises herself as a male, enrolls in a religious school, and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
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