“How do we ensure that ‘never again’ isn’t an empty slogan, or an aspiration, but also a call to action?”

U.S. President Obama asked last week on Holocaust Rememberance Day in Washington D.C. but then he offered only one way in which do to that: BY BEARING WITNESS

The Words of Bonds Documentary Project has been trying to take more concrete steps by producing an informational documentary made for and by New York City area, public and private students, that will not only educate them about genocidal atrocities such as the Holocaust, the Genocide of the Native Americans and those who perished in the African American Slave Trade, but will serve as a project that allows them to interact with these histories as they rush to record and retell the traces of these horrors, straight from the survivors’ hearts to the everyday consciousness of these students.

With the film, web site and other resources fully in development and underway, we refer you to our web site http://www.wordsofbonds.com where you can:

* learn more about the project

* preview select clips and trailer for the film on VIDEOS Page

* leave us a comment, voice or video message

*  share your or your family’s story on our SHARE Page

* discover a wealth of multimedia resources on our LEARN Page

* support us with a sponsorship or tax-deductible donation

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When: Fri. March 28, 2008 at 9:00 a.m.
Who: Jay Sommer, Sally Frishberg and Louvinia Pointer
Where: Public School 56, 170 Gates Avenue in Brooklyn
Contact: Bill T at 718 230-7821 :: bill@wordsofbonds.com
On Friday March 28, 2008 Holocaust Survivors and Educators Jay Sommer, Sally Frishberg and Louvinia Pointer will be speaking at New York City Public School 56 in Brooklyn, New York, in support of the “Words of Bonds” project. The project is a Holocaust / Slavery documentary many New York City students are working on. They will be talking about the importance of education and sharing stories about the Holocaust. For biographies on the speakers, please read the following post.

It is said that if we fail to correct the past it is destined to repeat itself. So come and join us at Public School 56.

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By Hema Easley, The Journal News

Jakub Pomeranz had not looked back on his past after the day in 1944 day when German soldiers dragged his father away to Auschwitz, leaving the boy wandering the streets of the Polish town of Radom.

Moving from one orphanage to another across Europe, Jakub, then 8, lost touch with his known surviving relatives – two cousins and an aunt. His mother and sister had disappeared in 1939, and his three brothers were also were missing.

After the war, a prominent New York Jewish couple brought Jakub to the United States, adopted him and gave him their name – Gartenberg. If in the following six decades Jack Gartenberg wondered about his original family, he put it out of his mind.

Then on Dec. 31, his wife, Pinky, showed him an article in The Journal News about a Monsey couple who were making aliyah. Jehoshua Pomeranz, a native of Radom, and his wife, Miriam, were moving to Jerusalem to fulfill a longtime dream to live in Israel.

“It hit me,” said Jack Gartenberg, now 72. “I said, ‘How can there be two Pomeranzes from Radom and not be related?’”

The Gartenbergs had lived within two miles of the Pomeranzes in Monsey for 34 years. Their children had gone to the same school. The two women were on the same bowling league and had worked together briefly for the county Department of Social Services. The two men even had a nodding acquaintance with each other

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