The alley athletes
We provide nutritious and healthy food for young people who practice in the Alley Athletic Club in south Tel Aviv-Jaffa, a professional non-profit club established as a social-capital project aimed at empowering girls and boys, aged 10-18, from disadvantaged neighborhoods, through professional sports activities.
We work to encourage these youth to engage in sports activities that help instill meaningful values that have value outside of the sports arena. We understand that a sports-social framework can change the course of life for girls and boys. It can create a sense of value, confidence, self-discipline and help them become better students, social leaders and professional athletes.
The alley athletes
We provide nutritious and healthy food for young people who practice in the Alley Athletic Club in south Tel Aviv-Jaffa, a professional non-profit club established as a social-capital project aimed at empowering girls and boys, aged 10-18, from disadvantaged neighborhoods, through professional sports activities.
We work to encourage these youth to engage in sports activities that help instill meaningful values that have value outside of the sports arena. We understand that a sports-social framework can change the course of life for girls and boys. It can create a sense of value, confidence, self-discipline and help them become better students, social leaders and professional athletes.
The alley athletes
We provide nutritious and healthy food for young people who practice in the Alley Athletic Club in south Tel Aviv-Jaffa, a professional non-profit club established as a social-capital project aimed at empowering girls and boys, aged 10-18, from disadvantaged neighborhoods, through professional sports activities.
We work to encourage these youth to engage in sports activities that help instill meaningful values that have value outside of the sports arena. We understand that a sports-social framework can change the course of life for girls and boys. It can create a sense of value, confidence, self-discipline and help them become better students, social leaders and professional athletes.
The alley athletes
We provide nutritious and healthy food for young people who practice in the Alley Athletic Club in south Tel Aviv-Jaffa, a professional non-profit club established as a social-capital project aimed at empowering girls and boys, aged 10-18, from disadvantaged neighborhoods, through professional sports activities.
We work to encourage these youth to engage in sports activities that help instill meaningful values that have value outside of the sports arena. We understand that a sports-social framework can change the course of life for girls and boys. It can create a sense of value, confidence, self-discipline and help them become better students, social leaders and professional athletes.
We provide nutritious and healthy food for young people who practice in the Alley Athletic Club in south Tel Aviv-Jaffa, a professional non-profit club established as a social-capital project aimed at empowering girls and boys, aged 10-18, from disadvantaged neighborhoods, through professional sports activities.
We work to encourage these youth to engage in sports activities that help instill meaningful values that have value outside of the sports arena. We understand that a sports-social framework can change the course of life for girls and boys. It can create a sense of value, confidence, self-discipline and help them become better students, social leaders and professional athletes.
The alley athletes
Henry Orenstein - Holocaust survivor
Henry Orenstein was born in 1923 in the town of Hrubieszow, located on the southeastern border of Poland.
Henry, one of the five children of the Orenstein family, grew up in an anti-Semitic environment. Henry excelled during his school years at the local high school but never received any award or recognition due to the school's policy not to award a certificate of excellence to Jews.
In 1939, when the Germans occupied Poland, Henry left Poland with his father and brothers and moved to Russia leaving behind the mother and sister, believing that women would not be harmed. In 1941, when Russia was also conquered by the Germans, Henry, his father and brothers returned to their city. In 1942, when the Gestapo sent the Jews of the city to the gas chambers in Sobibor, the Orenstein family members hid behind a double wall built for this purpose.
After the food ran out, the family decided to turn themselves into the Gestapo. The parents were loaded onto a truck that took them to the town cemetery where they were murdered and buried in a mass grave.
Thus, at the age of 19, Henry began his war of survival during which he experienced the horrors of the Holocaust and passed through five different concentration camps.
Henry and two of his brothers were transferred to a concentration camp where he heard over the loudspeaker that they were looking for Jewish scientists or mathematicians. Henry, who had witnessed the killing and suffering around him, realized that there were no escape routes from where he was and thought he might save his brothers and himself by presenting themselves as having the necessary skills even though they did not have these skills.
Henry Orenstein - second from the left in the picture
Fortunately, although the interviewers apparently understood that they were not scientists or mathematicians, Henry and his brothers managed to remain in the group of scientists established by German scientists who tried to find a way to exploit Jews in the camps, the Orenstein brothers thus avoided being sent themselves to a far worse fate.
On the eve of the end of the war, Henry Orenstein and his brothers survived a 10-day death march. Two days before the end of the war, his older brother was shot and killed. Of the seven Orenstein family members, Henry and his two brothers survived, and in 1947 the three brothers emigrated to the United States and began a new chapter in their lives.
Henry Orenstein wrote and published two fascinating books about the war period. "I Shall Live", which is told from the perspective of a Holocaust survivor and describes the difficult events in the concentration camps and the war.
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Later, he wrote the book "Avram" about his good friend from his hometown, Abraham Silberstein, who immigrated to Israel before the war, served as a Jewish officer in the British army, fought bravely against the Nazis and took part in the establishment of the Jewish state.
