On the 26th this friday,I have recieved the Resident of the Year AWARD,Sponcered by the news Paper Eastbourne HERALD.What an amazing Award and a complete surprise!I have lived in Eastbourne for 43 years,This is my HOME.I feel I belong here! When people ask me,Dorit where do you come from?my answer without hesitation is Eastbourne,I get funny loocks,what do you mean with your accent? Well yes is my reply,if you live in Eastbourne as long as I have ,you too can talk like me!
My accent has never held me back in comunicating with people or getting across my point of view.I am alequent,but the accent is just part of my persona!I realy do not notice that I have an accent,I dont think my Familly or my friends notice it much aither.I can comunicate in 9 languages,so what is a bit of accent amongst Friends? This Month is a very memorable Month for me I am on cloud nine! First became a runner upper in the memoire writing competition in the Women and Home Magazeen,Then my Interview with those fab people at the BBC radio 4 live,and now the Award for the resident of the year!I am realy humbelled and so overwhelmed. my memoires are finished,but every time I read a bit I add a few more words.To be appreciated at any time of ones life is great,but at My time of life ,it feels extra special. I am so very lucky to have such suport from my familly and My Wonderfull FRIENDS..Thank you so much for all your suport (sory my spelling is still crap ) as frank tells me ,but hay,I tell him I am writting with an accent!xxx

BBC radio 4 LIve My interview!

On the 13 april at 9 am  I have been invited to have an Interview at the BB C 4 radio live. I have been  Interviewd by Sian Williams And Richard Coles. I am still Buzzing,What an amazing experiance! I felt at ease when i was asked questions. There is allways some thing you want to say ,but time is limited,triyng to remember what I left out or if I should have added that , keep on repeating on my mind constantly!Chris Wilson the Producer was AMAZING!  very kind,well organised,and put every one at ease! A real pleasure and priviladge to have been asked to partake  in his program.When I was told how many people will be listening then my knees became a bit like jelly.

I have recieved so many wonderfull comments,I hope i still have enough time left to  share my experiences with as many people as I possibly can! It is so very Important  to learn that all people have the same right to live,How important it is to build a bridge between nations,without learning and sharing knowledge we will have less chance to have a future for our children,and it is the children who have to learn,they anderstanding and actions  at present and in the future will  secure to have a FUTURE.!I have experienced antisemitic remarks towards me manny times in my life ! at one of those occasions i have confronted the abusser and asked?   have you ever met or known a JEW?  greatly surprised she looked at me ……. no, not realy!  she sheepishly replyed. not expecting to be confronted. Well then tell me why are you  telling me ” you Jewed me”What does this expresion mean? I had a boutique at that time.you gave me the wrong change.I made her count her change again….. She was wrong!I did not short change her. We had a long conversation ,and she admitted ,

she has never met a jewish person,but where she lived every body used this expresion!     my poit is ,people are so quick to  hurt or abuse       even kill others a specialy if they are of a different cread  colour or religion.  We  Should All have the same right for life.no one shoul deside who is to live and who is to Die!  As a 5 year   old  little  jewish girl during the holocaust in Hungary,what have I or any of  the milions  of other jewish people done to deserve to be Hunted like criminals, put in gass chambers,torcherd,their children used as  guinipigs by mengele ans such? peole still  question the truth about the Holocaust.I  want to talk and tell people that it is possible to live  together in harmony with  peole who speak a different language or talk to their god in a different way.

My memoires  .. tell the true life experiences that  I have lived through.

A big thank you again  to chris and the BBC radio 4 live x

Great News!

The Women and Home Magazeen had a competition “MEMOIRES” I have entered  it,for the first time ever did I enter any writing competition.In this month isue the Winner was Anounced,Sadly it was not me,How ever I am a runner upper,this is so Amazing,there were 500 or so entries.The prize is a Kindle and an introduction to a Literary Agent  in the next week or so.I am  soooo exited!Hopfully

This will give me the oportunity to be intoduced to the right Publishers. I just need to have my Memoires published befor I ckick the bucket!   On the 13th april at 9 am  I will be intervewed  by the BBC  radio 4 live .This is  So Great.  There is never  enough sayed about the consequences of the Holocaust  other then at the anual memorial service. The War,The memories of,the aftereffects  the pain, do not just disapear becouse one is told it is over! whilst  it  is fatal to pick on the csabbs, one has to turn the pages of the book of life,it is not over it never will be. History is repeating it self!!!      If it is not the Jewish people it is some other Ethnic minority who are being victimised!

We humans do not seem to live as if we accept that one day we will DIE!

what ever our beliefs are,  this life as we know it will end,Why not try and  build bridges amongst us,learn about the similaritys we share, not dweling on our differences which only causes pain and hatred! I am looking foreward  to my Intervew and the Publishing of my  life experiences    in my Memoires,Lust wanted to Share my  good News with you All xx

St,paouls Musical.so much talent!!

Last night frank  and I were invited to see the musical show “whistle in the Wind” produced and performed by the     St.Pauls Catholic College in Burges Hill. This    invitetion  was as a result to my talk to the pupils on the 1st feb.This was an Educational Talk about the second world war and the Holocaust.

I shared my memorys and my experiences  during the Holocaust as a 5 year old little girl.This talk was a truly memorable  experience.

Both the teachers and the pupils were exeptionaly friendly and interested. Thank you Clair Rooney!The cast was perfectly chosen,The performers were Talented and each and evry one very proffesional!  Seldom have I ever heared so much Talent and beautifull Voices,so much feeling,  this production could be well come and be succsessfull on any stage! congratulations to the Production team and the magnificent in put by the orcestra.Matt Burke was amazing. much appresionation to  every one who was involved in any way to make this wondefull production possible.I a specialy enjoyed sitting next toMr.Rob Carter the head master,His face was gleeming with pride!And he had every reason to be proud,both of his teachers and his students!,

Thank you Evrery one who gave us this great Evening,Hope  to be with you soon again!

Love to you all

Dorit and Frank xx

 

 

 

st.pauls 1st. Feb.2013.

So looking foreward for tomorrow when I will be visiting St.Pauls catholic Schooll in burges Hill.

I have been Invited to tell my life experiences During the Holocaust in Budapest as a 5 year old little jewish girl.

I have been robed of my childhood,but to me it seemed normal,never knowing where we would sleep,not knowing when we would eat,afraid of being discovered by the nazis. I though  every body lived like this .I had nothing to compair it with.As it happened My mother did the right Thing!  by hyding we escaped the gasschambers.When the war ended and Hungary was Lyberated by the Rusion ArmyI was 9 years old,So undernurished , I had lost my Hair,could not stand,had pneumonia waighed 3 st.  the Dr.gave me 6 month to live!   But   as you see      I am here to share  my story.    I AM A SURVIVOR!!!   aliv

I had an amazing Life,Singing kept me alive,Singing freed me from my bad memorys I could escape in to my own World!

I got a music Scolarship in yugoslavia,emigrated To Israel.went to a convent Schooll in Istanbul,Deported to Germany, returned to Istanbul as a Belly dancer at the age of 16,to finish my bacaloriat,thus  I had a double life!,

enrolled in to the University of Munchen.Discovered my love For JAZZ.

got signed up by a recording company.My first record was a Hit.ironicaly it was the German Public who made me in to their Singing STAR

I have setteled in the south of  England     this  is my Home .For few years now I have been a public speaker and talk  to Schoolls,colleges,educational talks about the Holocaust and why it must not be forgotten!  The young people have to realise that there is a Choice in life,To speak up or just stand by and do nothing. I feel  I have to speakup for so many who can not speak any more

Some one has to!.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

St.Pauls Burges Hill.

Holocaust Memorial day service.

To have been invited to talk at the Holocaust memorial day Service,It was an Honour and a privilage!
To have survived is still a surprise to me.Not many of us are alive and able to speak up and tell their story
During the Holocaust. Millions of Inocent People have Been Tortured ,Gassed,Stripped of their posessions but mainly stripped of their dignity! This has realy happened!!!!!It is not a Good P.R.job.We all have to remember and remind people so that it should never again be allowed to happen!
Building Bridges,listening to each other,regardless of our differences in Cread ,colour or religious denomination.
Non of us can choose in to which religion we will be borne ,we have no choice,but we can choose later if we are going to just stand by and do nothing,or speak up and be a better person!
Seeing on paper the no.6 million,does not have the same impact as if you were to visualise, say the people of Sussex
would all be killed!!This is realy a chilling thought, but in reality that is what 6 milion and more killed might look like.
Their only Crime(if you can call it crime)was that they were Jewish!
We all have the same right for LIFE,Not only the jewish people have been persecuted and killed.It is still going on!
Will we Ever Learn?.The memories of the Holocaust do not just go away because it was a long time ago! It is always part of my life.Not that I want to remember ,I simply can not forget !When I was speaking at the Holocaust memorial day service in st.Mary at the castle in Haistings and christ church Eastbourne then The Town Hall Eastbourne sharing some of my experiances,it did not seem as if so many decades have passed,I was back in Budapest and that bad woman came and spat at me and shouted,”you stinking Jew”I was only 5 years old.Now I am 77.and i can still remember as if it was yester day.
On the 1st of Feb.I am Invited to Speak to the students of ST PAULS in Burges Hill.
I am realy Looking foreward ,it is So very Important to share with the young people the real experiences during this terrible genoside. Having survived the holocaust i can answer questions,If only a hand full of students can learn and stand up or speak up one day ,when someones life could be saved through it.
Once my Book of my memorie,that of a 5 year old girl to a pop star will be published,I will be able to share so much more.