Fri 17 Jan
|JKD
DUGO-Kabbalat Shabbat with Kiddush
We welcome Shabbat together with prayer, song, and kiddush. January 18 is Dugo Day. Today, with the eating of falafel, we remember the victims of the Auschwitz death march and the strength our identity can give us.
Time & Location
17 Jan 2025, 19:00 – 23:00
JKD, Eisenbahnstraße 1, 01097 Dresden, Germany
Guests
About the event
On Friday evening, we gather at our synagogue to welcome Shabbat with songs, prayers, joy, and a feast. We look forward to welcoming everyone who wants to celebrate with us and kindly ask you to register here on the website.
David Leitner, the Holocaust survivor who started a widely-marked tradition of eating falafel to mark his 1945 march from the Auschwitz concentration camp, died Wednesday at the age of 94.
Known as “Dugo,” Leitner, who was born in Hungary, started the tradition shortly after his arrival in Israel in 1949.
He used to have falafel every year on January 18, the date when in 1945 German guards began marching him and thousands of other Holocaust victims away from Auschwitz death camp westward.
Like many of the underfed and starving inmates, Leitner's mind focused on food and hunger during the march through the frozen countryside of Nazi-occupied Poland, he later said.