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Purimfest 1953
To celebrate being saved from a potential second Holocaust 
planned by a 20th century Haman: Stalin

March 9, 2004 7 PM
From 6:30 PM there will be a musical performance and an exhibit about the 1953 era Soviet Union

Hosted at Beit Ha Kehilot (part of Jerusalem Municipality) Auditorium
Rechov Yaffo 36, 2nd Floor, Jerusalem
(02) 625-4138/9

For information about Beit Ha Kehilot (Community House) click here

Lectures mostly in Hebrew - Admission Free

Organized by:
Larissa Yanovsky (Director, Beit Ha Kehilot) - kalia@jerusalem.muni.il
Anat Ben-Zvi (Public Relations Manager, Beit Ha Kehilot) -  kalia@jerusalem.muni.il
Marina Turkinietz (Jewish Memorial organization) - jewish_memorial@yahoo.com
Aryeh Berger (Jewish Memorial organization) - jewish_memorial@yahoo.com
Larry Pfeffer - lpfeffer@actcom.co.il

Summary



A 20th Century Haman


Stalin got a stroke and collapsed on Mach 1, 1953, during Purim. He died shortly thereafter on March 5, 1953. He was an antisemite and furious at Israel for not joining the Soviet colonies he launched a series of trials and executions of high level leaders in Czechoslovakia and soon followed it by the "Doctors’ Plot" in the Soviet Union. In each case the accused were mostly Jews. Historians write that his plan was to use the "Doctors’ Plot" as pretext for massive deportations of Jews in the Soviet Union and its colonies starting on March 5, 1953 -  to be followed by large scale pogroms.  

This Purimfest 1953 event will explore how eight years after the Holocaust the Jewish people and the free world were again in great danger, this time from Hitler’s one time ally, and how we were saved during Purim from a modern day Haman. 


PROGRAM

Chairperson:  Larissa Yanovsky (Director, Beit  Ha Kehilot)
kalia@jerusalem.muni.il

Exhibit

From 6:30 PM there will be a musical performance and 
an exhibit about the 1953 era Soviet Union. 
Exhibit may stay open until March 19. 
Those wishing to see it after the event should first check with Beit ha Kehilot (02) 625-4138/9

 

Opening

Talks
 

Musical performance, Betty Klein

Concluding Remarks

 

Click for program in Hebrew

Click for program in Russian

 

 

For various reasons the following scheduled speakers could not give their talks:

Web sites, Short Articles, Notes and Essays

http://www.gulag.hu - excellent Web site by Mr. Istvan Toth - ccontains links to many valuable Web sites

"A Little Purim" - a Web article

Global Communist Genocide - Introspection - by Larry Pfeffer

Tikun Olam - Heresz Olam - by Larry Pfeffer
 

Paintings from the Gulag - by ex-slave laborer artist Nikolai Getman

 

(From left to right: In the NKVD dungeon,  Escape, The guards' kennel, Butara, Waiting to be shot)

Courtesy of: The Jamestown Foundation

Click to see thumbnail size images of 48 paintings by Nicolai Getman 

 

Background on painter:
  161.58.193.170/getman/gulag-collection.htm or www.jamestown.org/getman.php 

Fifty of Nicolai Getman's paintings with narrative:
161.58.193.170/getman/painting1.htm or www.jamestown.org/getman_paintings.php

Photos and narratives about paintings also in:
"The Gulag Collection Paintings of the Soviet Penal System by Former Prisoner Nikolai Getman"
Published by The Jamestown Foundation
Washington, D.C.; Year 2001
ISBN  0-9675009-2-3 and 0-9675009-1-5

 

The Jamestown Foundation
 4516 43rd St. NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 483.8888 FAX (212) 202.483.8337 pubs@jamestown.org

Maps of Gulags and 
Estimated Statistics of Victims of Communist Terror

 

"When you make an omelet you must break the egg shell" 

"When you cut down the tree there is inevitably sawdust"

(Neat phrases used by "humanist idealists" to explain away the monumental number of people tortured and murdered by Communist regimes)

 

Soviet Union - estimated 20,000,000  killed
Based on book:  "The Black Book of Communism" (Harvard Press, Oct 1999)
Other estimates of the number of people murdered in the Soviet Union are as high as 60 million.

Map from Mr. Istvan Toth's excellent Web site: www.gulag.hu

For larger image click: www.gulag.hu/images/ag1_improved.jpg

 

Based on official Soviet statistics - actual deaths are probably significantly higher
From www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/sjk/kolyma7.htm
Based on Pohl, J. O. (1997). The Stalinist Penal System: A Statistical History of Soviet Repression and Terror, 1930-1953. Jefferson, McFarland & Company, Inc.

 

 

From: www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/sjk/kolyma3.htm

 

Mainland China - estimated 65,000,000  killed
 Based on book:  "The Black Book of Communism" (Harvard Press, Oct 1999)

Map from Jean-Luc Domenach, "L'archipel oublie" 

Grim estimates of people killed by Communist regimes

Soviet Union 20 Million
China 65 Million
Cambodia   2 Million
North Korea   2 Million
Vietnam   1 Million
Eastern Europe    1 Million
Africa 1.7 Million
Afghanistan 1.5 Million
Latin America 0.15 Million
ESTIMATED TOTAL 94 Million

Based on book:  "The Black Book of Communism" (Harvard Press, Oct 1999)

Other estimates of the number of people murdered in the Soviet Union are as high as 60 million.

"Arbeit Macht Frei"

The Nazi murderers placed a sign "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("Works makes free") on gates of many death camps, for example in Auschwitz. It is shocking to discover that similar signs were placed on Soviet and Communist Chinese Gulag gates and such signs may still be on gates of current Chinese gulags.

 

Nazis' sign over Auschwitz gate

Communists' sign over Vorkuta Gulag gate. English text of sign "Work in the USSR is a matter of Honor and Glory"
From:  Black Book of Communism

 

Books

See www.amazon.com or www.bn.com for reviews and availability

Dr. Alexander Rashin, Why Didn't Stalin Murder All the Jews?
 

Paperback: 282 pages, Publisher: Liberty Publishing House; (March 14, 2003), ISBN: 0914481797

See review: http://www.shalomnewyork.com/authors/schwartz/Reviewed.php

Jonathan Brent and Validimir Naumov, Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953



Paperback: 416 pages, Publisher: Perennial; (February 17, 2004), 
ISBN: 0060933100

Edvard Radzinsky, Stalin - The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret Archives


Paperback: 624 pages, Publisher: Anchor; (August 18, 1997), ISBN: 0385479549

Arkady Vaksberg, Stalin Against the Jews


 

 

Paperback 295 pages, Publisher: Vintage (March 1995),
ISBN: 067975959X
Courtois, Stephan et al, The Black Book of Communism
 

Hardcover: 858 pages, Publisher: Harvard University Press (Oct 1999) ISBN: 0674076087

Anne Applebaum, Gulag - A History



Hardcover: 720 pages, Publisher: Doubleday; (April 29, 2003)
 ISBN: 0767900561g

 

 

Background of this Web page is red, like the Communist and related flags.
Red is an appropriate color;  it symbolizes the enormous amount of blood spillt in the name of world-wide Communist "Utopia" ...

Content Map:
"Arbeit Macht Frei" | Books | Maps of Gulags and Genocide Statistics | Organizers | Other Material 
Paintings from the Gulag |  Program | Purimfest 1946 | Megilah-Stalin | Summary 

 

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