[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 113 (Tuesday, September 10, 2002)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1542]
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                    TRIBUTE TO HART AND MARK HASTEN

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                            HON. MIKE PENCE

                               of indiana

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 10, 2002

  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Hart and Mark 
Hasten, two brothers born in the small town of Bohorodczany, Poland and 
currently living in my home state of Indiana. In 1942, acting on 
horrifying rumors that Nazis were murdering Jews everywhere, their 
father placed young Hart and Mark in a horse drawn carriage and the 
family fled town in the middle of night.
  Shortly after the Hastens left Bohorodczany, twelve hundred Jews were 
gathered by the Nazis and murdered in a nearby town. Hart and Mark, and 
their parents, were the only surviving Jews from the area.
  Recently, the two brothers traveled back to their boyhood town to 
erect a monument in the memory of the martyrs. Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov 
from Israel and Rabbi Moseh Kolesnik from Ukraine as well as fifty 
Jewish people from neighboring villages joined Hart and Mark to observe 
the dedication.
  The story of those who perished is etched in Hebrew and English on a 
granite stone in a small cemetery where they may rest in peace.
  Mr. Speaker, I praise Hart and Mark Hasten for erecting this monument 
in the name of their fellow townspeople. This is a special memorial for 
a deserving community of heroes.

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