David Botwinik's Oral History

David (center) "conducting the choir of the United Talmud Torah schools, at the annual choral Zimria at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Motreal, 1989."



Description and photo scanned from book "From Holocaust to Life."

David (center) "with the choir of the United Talmud Torah schools, at the annual choir Zimria at Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, Montreal, 1989."



Description and scanned photo from book "From Holocaust to Life."

David (center) "at a rehearsal with his choir from the United Talmud Torah Schools, Montreal 1988."



Description and photo from book "From Holocaust to Life."

David "directing the Jewish Peretz School choir, 1961."



Description and photo from book "From Holocaust to Life."

David (front left) "standing with his choir from Congregation Shomrim Laboker, with Cantor Arie Leib Subar. This photo is foind on the jacket of the record 'Songs in Our Time,; Montreal, 1962.



Photo and description from book "From Holocaust to Life."

Front cover of David's book

Back cover of David's book

David Botwinik

same portrait with title

Nine photographs collected into a collage in David's book "From Holocaust to Life."



From upper left:

1. Old woman in the marketplace warming her hands over a pot of hot coals.

2. On a winter day, Varniai, Lithuania

3. Between Minkha and Maariv prayers: Gershon the Butcher and Shilem the Shames listen to a sermon.

4. On the way to synagogue, Varniai

5. Shopkeepers waiting very patiently for a customer, Varniai, Lithuania

6.Wooden synagogue, Rugava (Raguva), Lithuania

7. A man who managed to buy a calf for Shabbat, Varniai, Lithuania

8. View of river in Rugava, district of Ukmerge

9. Students and their teacher in elementary school in Alsedziai, Lithuania



Photographs by Yakov David Kamzon

David at a piano with Louis Danto, Rome, Italy, c. 1948

A photograph of the narrator at age 11 in his birthplace of Vilna; he is wearing a tallit and holding a sheet of paper

David and his son Sender, working on some of this music for his book "From Holocaust to Life," in Upper Darby, PA.



Scanned from book "From Holocaust to Life"

David (second from right) receiving a music award with Yehuda Vineberg at the 1994 Zimria, "acknowledging their many years of devoted and excellent teaching of music and choir in the Montreal Jewish community. From left to right: Sid Milech, Yehuda Vineberg, David Botwinik, Rabbi Zeev Lanton."



Description and photo scanned from book "From Holocaust to Life."