Gitel Goes to Cheder

<p>In the shtetl young boys were sent to cheder to learn Jewish prayers and study from the Torah. Their teacher was called a <em>melamed</em>. Girls however remained at home. Their days were filled with household chores and young siblings to care for.</p><p>This story is based on the true story of my mother Gita (Gitel) Aron <em>ah</em> and her brother Yitschak (Izzy) Aron <em>ah</em> who lived with their family in the 1920s in a shtetl called Miory in Poland. My mother was the only girl in the Miory cheder.</p><p>She and her brother were young adults during the Holocaust and survived in the forests of Poland as brave partisans. There were no other survivors from their family.</p><p>After WW II both brother and sister sailed to America and settled in New York. They remained very close throughout their lives and raised remarkable families.</p><p>May the voices of the children and parents who read this story of Gitel and Izzy be a tribute to their legacy.</p>