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Pabianice Memorial Service 2019
The Pabianice Memorial Service will be held on SUNDAY 26^TH MAY 2019,11am, at the Pabianice Monument, MCK Cemetery, 50 Browns Road, Springvale. This year marks the 77^th anniversary of the liquidation of the Pabianice Ghetto.
Guest speaker: Mr Izi Marmur, Vice President Australian Society of Polish Jews Inc.

Pabianice Memorial Service 2018
(Our 12th yizkor / memorial service in Melbourne) The 76th anniversary of the Liquidation of the Pabianice Ghetto / Pabianice Memorial Service was held on 27th May 2018 at the Pabianice Monument, MCK Cemetery,   Springvale.
See photos from the 2018 memorial service here...

Dr Ian Light's speech at the 76th Pabianice Yizkor (27/5/2018)

Pabianice Memorial Service 2017
(Our 11th yizkor / memorial service in Melbourne) The 75th anniversary was held on Sunday 21 May 2017, at the Monument, MCK Cemetery, Browns Road, Springvale. The main speaker was Henri Korn, the president of Melbourne Child Survivors of the Holocaust. Max Lasky conducted the Yizkor service and Jack Ekstein spoke to a crowd of about 45 people.
See photos from the 2017 memorial service here...

Press Release - 9 May, 2014 Translation of book about Jewish life in Pabianice, Poland The Pabianice Landsmanshaft announces the publication of the English translation of Seyfer Pabianice (The Pabianice Yizkor book) originally published in Yiddish and Hebrew in 1956, edited by A. Wolf Jasni.   MORE... The book in English is available at these places world wide. Click here... Last month the Pabianice Landsmanshaft launched the new translation of the Pabianice Yizkor book. It was held at the home of a descendant of a Pabianice family. One hundred people with links to Pabianice attended. There were readings from the book as well as a reading of the late Bronka Light’s journal by her daughter, Eva, including evocative stories about her life in Pabianice before the war. SEE PHOTOS... The first sections of the Pabianice book are now online at: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Pabianice1/Pabianice1.html Or download a scanned copy of the 1st Edition, 2014 book (large file: 89MB) here