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Titolo: 80 years on, the scars still show

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80 years on, the scars still show
Aug. 10, 2009
Tovah Lazaroff , THE JERUSALEM POST
On his freckled forehead, one can still see the scar from the knife
wound Shlomo Slonim sustained 80 years ago, when an Arab stabbed him
as he huddled in his mother's arms in their Hebron home.
"It's not the only wound I have," Slonim told The Jerusalem Post on
Sunday. He opened up the palm of his hand to show scars on the insides
of his fingers.
"There is one that I cannot bend," said the 81-year-old, who was
dressed in black slacks and a light blue, short-sleeved, button-down
shirt.
He wore glasses and a knitted kippa and spoke calmly as he stood in
the Hebron cemetery, at the end of a small ceremony marking the Hebrew
anniversary of the 1929 massacre of 67 Jewish residents of that city
by an Arab mob.
Slonim recounted the details of that fateful day, when he was only a
year old. He has no memory of the events, of course, but he has heard
the story so many times that he told it as if he were recalling his
own experiences.
It was Shabbat morning when an Arab mob armed with knives filled the
streets and burst into Jewish homes, Slonim said.
Dozens of Jews, he said, had gathered in his parents' home for safety.
His father, Eliezer Dan Slonim, 29, had been the director of the Anglo-
Palestine Bank and a representative of the Jewish community in the
Hebron Municipality.
Given the good relationship he enjoyed with his Arab neighbors, local
Jews believed they would be safe in his home, said Slonim.
They were wrong. As the Arabs came to the home, the people inside
tried to bar the door with their bodies, but they couldn't hold back
the mob, he said.
After bursting in, the Arabs killed 24 people with knives and
machetes. Among them were Slonim's father, his mother, Hannah, 24, and
her parents who were visiting for Shabbat. They also fatally wounded
his older brother, who was only four. He succumbed to his wounds
several days later in Jerusalem and was buried there.
The lone survivor of his immediate family, Slonim comes as often as he
can to the cemetery to visit his parents' graves, which are among the
many graves of massacre victims marked by a long row of small
headstones.
As is customary in Jewish tradition, he placed a small stone on each
grave on Sunday.
The massacre destroyed the Hebron Jewish community, whose roots go
back to biblical times, even though there were other periods when Jews
were chased out of the city.
Some Jews tried to return to Hebron after the massacre, but the
British removed them in 1936.
It was only in 1979 that Jews returned to live in Hebron. While those
Jews who came saw themselves as the spiritual descendents of the
former community, very few of the survivors or their descendents were
among them.
Slonim said that he had thought about returning, but did not want to
live among people who had killed his family.
"I would never know if the Arab I passed in the street had a hand in
their murder," he said.
Slonim was not the only survivor to return Sunday to the cemetery for
the ceremony organized by the Jewish community of Hebron. Yankele
Hillel, 81, said that an Arab neighbor had saved him and his mother.
One woman, Menuha, said that her great-grandmother, for whom she was
named, had survived because she hid behind a closet.
Among those who arrived at the cemetery was Rabbi Moshe Levinger, who
in 1968 brought Jews back to Hebron to celebrate Pessah. They moved
into rooms in a local hotel and refused to leave until a compromise
was brokered, which led to the creation of the nearby settlement of
Kiryat Arba.
Levinger came to the cemetery in a wheelchair on Sunday, hours after
he had been released from the hospital. He was inspired, he said, by
the spirit of the holy ones who were buried there.
A national ceremony in honor of the victims will be held next month

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