Families celebrating their children’s b’nai mitzvah enrich their simchot when requesting to twin with children who perished in the Holocaust. May these children’s memory be for a blessing. Learn more about keeping their names and stories alive through the Remember A Child Program.
Lidiya Rozova, born in 1935 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine (USSR).
She, her parents Lev and Bluma, and her brother Michail were murdered in Stavropol Ordzhonikidzevskiy Kray, Russia (USSR), in September 1942.
Lidiya was remembered when a student of Beth El Synagogue in New Jersey became a bat mitzvah in May 2025.
Henriette Lena Blok was born on October 31, 1935, in Enschede, The Netherlands.
Henriette, her parents Abraham and Johanna, her brother Leo Joseph and baby brother Johnny were deported to Westerbork Assembly and Transit Camp, The Netherlands, on May 1, 1943, and from there the family was deported to the Sobibor Extermination Camp on May 25, 1943. They all were murdered there on May 28, 1943.
In September 2025, Henriette will be remembered during a bat mitzvah service at NSS Beth El in Illinois.