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This is me in Slutsk in 2005. I had this photo taken for my foreign passport, because I wanted to visit my son in Latvia.

In 1995 the Jewish community opened in Slutsk. I was retired by then and started to work actively in the community. I am the assistant of the chairman of our community.

Nowadays people are no longer afraid of acknowledging their Jewish identity. Vice versa, it is advantageous to be Jewish nowadays, considering the community’s assistance. People who have identified themselves as Russian or Belarusian come to our community as Jews, but we don’t send these people away. The Jewish people have survived in the world due to this support that they’ve provided for each other.

We get together three times a week. We celebrate Sabbath on Saturday. People get together to share opinions, joys, and problems. We try to do everything we can to make people remember the innocent victims of the Holocaust. We installed a monument to the victims of the Holocaust in Slutsk.

More Photos from Friedrich Falevich

Boris and Grigoriy Falevich (near Minsk 1967)
      Friedrich Falevich among inhabitants of Slutsk celebrating Victory Day (Slutsk 1945)
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        Yulia Falevich
            Friedrich Falevich and his family (Slutsk 1985)
                Friedrich Falevich with his wife Dora Falevich (Slutsk 1960)
                    Boris Falevich (Slutsk 1949)
                        Friedrich Falevich with his schoolmates (Termez 1956)
                            Friedrich Falevich with Anatoliy Yevdokimov (Termez 1955)