We are excited to report that a gift from the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Family Foundation has enabled us to take a big step

forward in preserving and accessing Detroit survivor oral histories. Many stories will now be digitized so that they can be included in the USC Shoah Foundation “IWitness” Project. The digitization allows those who visit the Shoah site to search the testimonies by location, family member

names and many other key words.We all know the power of the spoken word, and to hear the

survivors share their stories often leaves listeners speechless. How many times have we seen tears in the eyes of HMC guests, as they listen to the words of our survivors? Through this gift, people everywhere will be able to have a similar experience, one that opens eyes, hearts and minds.

Consider a survivor like Erna Gorman and the impact of her story. She and her family hid from the Germans for years,

unable to leave their bunker or “tomb,” as she calls it. She watched her mother die before her very eyes, and was shaken and unable to speak. Somehow she and some family members managed to survive. However, upon returning to their native France they were greeted with shouts

of “Dirty Jew” from neighborhood children. Mrs. Gorman learned an important truth that day and it has stayed with her throughout her life. In her words, “Those children were not born with hatred and prejudices. They picked it up from their parents and people around them. That’s why I speak out against prejudice and hatred.” And that is why we at the HMC are so grateful to the Applebaum Family Foundation for its generous gift. It allows people from all over the world to feel the words of survivors from our own community in ways that are more powerful than anyone might imagine. Mrs. Gorman’s pain and her desire to promote tolerance through education will continue to shed light on hatred and bigotry for years to come, thanks to our partnership with the Shoah Foundation and the generosity of the Applebaum Family Foundation. It is our hope and the hope of the Applebaum family that their gift will inspire others to support the HMC in ways that are meaningful to them.

We are pleased to announce the completion of our new Strategic Plan, and the resulting mission statement is clear: we are to engage, to educate and to empower by

remembering the Holocaust.Through our successful efforts, we envision a world in which people take responsible action.

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(left to right) Governor Rick Snyder, Marcia and

Eugene Applebaum and their daughter Pamela Applebaum on a visit to the

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HMC Joins Hands with Shoah FoundationThanks to the Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Family Foundation

New Strategic PlanHMC Launches

(left to right) CEO Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld with visiting guest speaker Dr. Rolf Wolfswinkel from NYU and HMC Board Member Dr. Nick Hersh

with Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld at Helm

Newly appointed CEO Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld played an integral role in developing the Plan. He brings a wealth of experience and a love of education to his new position. He worked with key stakeholders, including board members, docents, staff and community members, to help in the planning process. The group worked together to identify four major priorities:n Making the HMC the nexus for the implementation of

Michigan’s new law requiring that all public and charter school students in grades 8-12 be taught about the Holocaust and other genocides

n Integrating HMC visits into a broader Holocaust education

n Raising awareness for younger generations n Refreshing our exhibits in order to keep them current.

For this purpose, we have engaged national exhibit design firm Ralph Appelbaum Associates to create a visualized master plan

Our Strategic Plan ushers in a new era for the HMC. With Rabbi Mayerfeld in place to oversee its implementation, we look forward to a bright future. His experience with the Jewish Wisdom Foundation, a non-profit that he founded, and as Executive Director of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah for 22 years, makes him the right person to lead the HMC into the future. As Rabbi Mayerfeld recently put it, he is “eager to continue playing a role in the evolution of this historic institution, executing our new Strategic Plan with an amazing team of professionals and volunteers.”

Erna Gorman

Educating Michigan StudentsYour Generosity at Work

Thanks to your support, students from all over Michigan are

learning why they must fight prejudice and stand up for the

rights of others.

lefT: Students from Warrendale Charter Academy in Detroit

Annie Steinmetz and Dr. Vicki Adler

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(left to right) Garry Kappy, honorable mention winners Savannah Hansen from Harrison High School, Sergio Barnett from Levey Middle School, Akua Tandoh from Birney K-8 School, Olivia Milosevich from Our Lady of Sorrows, and Dr. Irvin Kappy

The May 10 Awards Ceremony

Volunteers at the Holocaust Memorial Center not only provide

an invaluable service to our museum and community, but often form lasting friendships with one another.

When docent Vicki Adler sat next to Museum Shop volunteer Annie Steinmetz at the Volunteer Thank You Brunch, it was a start to a long friendship and the end of a lifelong mystery. Through conversation, they discovered that Annie lived only 15 minutes away from Saarburg, Germany, where Vicki’s mother-in-law Elise Adler lived before WWII.

Vicki told Annie how Elise had escaped four months before the war started, but left many questions behind: What happened to her family? Vicki shared her experience of traveling to Saarburg in 2004 to find answers, while knowing only the name of the city and a house number. Although able to visit the town, she learned nothing about Elise’s parents or younger sister.

When Annie heard Vicki’s story, she wanted to help. Annie asked her mother Ruth to get involved, and after a number of phone calls the information began to arrive. Vicki learned that Elise’s parents and sister were forced from their home one month after Elise got out of Germany. They were deported to the Lodz ghetto and murdered in Chelmno.

The Adlers appreciate that Annie and Ruth helped them fill in some of the blank spaces in their family history. The Adlers are now planning to travel to Saarburg in 2018 to visit the Steinmetzes and to see Elise’s home. There they also will see the “Stumbling Blocks” imbedded in front that are engraved with details of Elise’s family’s lives and deaths.

Annie and Vicki are models for people reaching out to repair the world, and who in return have found a lifelong friendship.

To learn about volunteer opportunities, please contact Ruth Stern at 248.536.9601.

Inspiring the Next Generation to

The geographic diversity of our visitors is astounding! In 2016, school groups visited from these Michigan counties (shown in dark blue):

Each year, 35,000 students visit the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman

Family Campus. Their token admission fees do not cover the cost of operating the center. Your gifts are what make their visits possible. Thank you!

The lessons of the Holocaust are as relevant today as ever, inspiring a new generation to

strive for a better world.On May 10, 2017, we held the award ceremony for our first annual Kappy Family Anne Frank Art & Writing Competition. We received 180+ entries from Oakland County 8th-12th graders, who submited written or artistic interpretations of the power of one person to make a difference, based on

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Synagogue with docent Jim Berk

RIGhT: Students from Blissfield Middle School and UD Jesuit listen to Holocaust

survivor Jeannette Olson.

Above: Students from Congregation Shaarey Zedek and Temple Kol Ami with Holocaust survivor Martin Lowenberg

First place painting by Kaychel Boone from Harrison High School

First place photo by Amanda Peebles from Stoney Creek High School

Inspiring the Next Generation to

Anne Frank’s quote, “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” The winning artwork and writing were displayed in a gallery adjacent to our Viola and Garry Kappy Anne Frank Tree Exhibit and Garden, featuring a sapling from the chestnut tree that grew outside Anne Frank’s hiding place. They also can be seen on our website at bit.ly/2xgrY3T. A big thank you to Holocaust survivor Garry Kappy and his family for making all of this possible!

Please visit our Doris and Eric Billes Museum Shop featuring new and used books and DVDs for

all ages on the Holocaust and respecting differences,

including a collection of local survivor memoirs. Gift items

for sale include mezuzahs, yahrzeit candles, and fair-trade

goods. All purchases support the Holocaust Memorial

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Dear Holocaust Memorial Center,My students were extraordinarily moved.

As a teacher, I touch the lives of many students each year. What you have taught

will be learned not only by the students who visited today, but by hundreds of others who will pass through my classroom.

I will ask the questions that I hope will lead them to nurture tolerance, love and hope in their hearts, and I will encourage

them to stand up for anyone who needs their support.

With love and gratitude,Mrs. Holly CasslerWarren Woods Tower High School, Warren

Charlotte Massey

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lefT: The Governor’s Council on Genocide and Holocaust Education held its meetings at the HMC throughout the year. (Ieft to right) Back row Hayg Oshagan, Ken Waltzer, Richard Norsigian, Ara Sanjian, HMC Director of Education Robin Axelrod, B. Scott Durham, HMC Board Member Dr. Nick Hersh, Michael Walenta. Front row Rabbi Yosef Weingarten, Vice Chair Corrine Khederian, Edmond Azadian, Chair Lori Talsky Zekelman, HMC Docent Lori Weisberg, Cindy Hughey

below: Consul General of France in Chicago Vincent Floreani presented the French Knight of the Legion of Honor medal to Dr. Guy Stern, HMC Director of the Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

RIGhT: (Ieft to right) Elise Levinson, HMC Director of

Development Cheryl Guyer, Dr. Dan Guyer, visiting guest

speaker Dr. Scott Straus from University of Wisconsin-

Madison, Gilda and John Jacobs, and Annie Cohen at the program The Promise of

Never Again: where are we Today and what Can be Done?

New in the Library Archive

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Above: (Ieft to right) Guest speaker Rabbi Michael Schudrich, the Chief Rabbi of Poland, with Holocaust

Survivor Manny Mittelman and Manny’s daughter Leah Kohn at the program Polish Jewry Today: fact and fiction

lefT: (Ieft to right) HMC Chairman Dr. Steven Grant, Marci Grant and HMC Docent Alan Eidelman in the HMC Billes Museum Shop

Ex-Concentration Camp Inmate IDs for Sonia Garfinkel Nothman and the late Nathan Nothman

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Artifacts: Oh, the Stories They Can Tell!

The Holocaust Memorial Center is the repository of numerous Holocaust artifacts. They often have fascinating backgrounds from

which we can learn important historical and ethical lessons.Holocaust survivors Nathan, of blessed memory, and Sonia Nothman recently donated their Ex-Concentration Camp ID cards, dated January 1946 and October 1945. In order for displaced persons to receive benefits, such as a place to live, food rations and transportation out of Germany, a survivor had to be registered as a bonafide displaced

person. What is truly eye-opening in these particular documents is the “Reason for Arrest”: Jew and Jewess!

Another item with a little-known story is a pair of bookends given

by Rabbi Joseph Hertz, Chief Rabbi of England, to Levi Taylor.

Taylor was a German Jewish circus owner who travelled

throughout Europe. As the situation in Europe deteriorated, Taylor would

allow Jews to hide in the hay or to disguise themselves as clowns and

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use his travel visas as they travelled through Europe and across the English Channel. Rabbi Hertz gave Taylor the pair of bookends, which are of German origin, as acknowledgement of his bravery and selflessness. The bookends were handed down to his grandson Jack Taylor, who graciously donated them to us. The circus was eventually sold to Ed Bailey of Barnum and Bailey fame.A mysterious piece of jewelry was donated to the HMC by a family who received it from Walter Kabarowski, a Polish freedom fighter who was imprisoned in Dachau. In Dachau, Kabarowski befriended a Jewish jeweler who gave him a handmade gold locket to deliver to his infant daughter, whom he left behind, in case he did not survive the camp. The inscription on the locket is a quote from a Polish poet which reads, “Every place I was forced to be, I left part of my soul as a gift to you.” Kabarowski came to Detroit and passed away in 1992 without ever locating the child’s whereabouts. This locket remains a symbol of a father’s love for his child from whom he was brutally and permanently separated.

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So much of the good work we do at the Holocaust Memorial Center is a direct result of the dedication of our caring volunteers. I’m proud to share the

far-reaching work of two of our Board Members, Dr. Edward Malinowski and Dr. Nelson (Nick) Hersh.Dr. Malinowski recently became a Survivor Speaker, building upon his years of service as an HMC Board Member. It is difficult for Dr. Malinowski and many of his fellow HMC Survivor Speakers to share their stories, but their selflessness allows thousands of young people each year to hear a first-hand account of survival and hope in the darkest time. Dr. Malinowski is one of the very few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto. Almost all of his family, including his father, perished in the Warsaw Ghetto and Treblinka. He and his mother escaped from the Ghetto and survived the war by moving from place to place in Poland until the Russian liberation in 1945. Dr. Malinowski spent the remainder of his childhood in war-ravaged Poland and was able to finish medical school as well as become an accomplished violinist. In 1969, he was forced by a wave of government-sponsored antisemitism to emigrate, and he arrived in America. After additional training at Sinai Hospital of Detroit, he established a cardiology practice. His story helps the HMC to educate the next generation about the critical need to stand up to hatred, antisemitism and genocide.

Above: Greek Holocaust survivor Marika David with her children Jacob and Pam David, with artifacts from her life in Greece, including a tablecloth embroidered by Marika’s mother and a coffee set

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Above: HMC Board Member Alan Zekelman and Sharon Klein at the program The Promise of Never Again: where are we Today and what Can be Done?

lefT: (Ieft to right) Eli, Elyse, Evan and David Foltyn, at our Yom HaShoah program, during which Elyse led the audience in a responsive reading on behalf of the children of survivors

RIGhT: Luba Matison and her mother, Holocaust Survivor Gita

Greisdorf, lit a candle at our Yom HaShoah program in honor

and in memory of the heroes, partisans, freedom fighters and the many Jews who fought and died in the ghettos and forests.

RIGhT: (Ieft to right) Rabbi Sasson and Nora Natan from Keter Torah

Synagogue, the Sephardic Community of Greater Detroit, Nadine Cook from

St. John Providence Health System, David Flaisher and HMC Director of

Annual Giving Beth Snider at our spring member event

Board Member Dr. Nick Hersh with students in Dobcyzyze, Poland

Board Member Dr. Ed Malinowski with (Ieft to right) his wife Dr. Jolanta Malinowski, daughter Dr. Susan Malinowski and grandson Mark Shapiro.

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Dr. Hersh and his wife Sue will be honored at our upcoming 33rd Anniversary Dinner on November 5. Dr. Hersh, an orthodontist, volunteers as an English teacher for a few weeks each year in Dobczyze, Poland. Over the past few years, he has developed a relationship with the people of Dobczyze and has been welcomed by them as family. The education Dr. Hersh gives is not limited to language; he teaches them how similar we all are, destroying preconceived notions they may have about Americans or Jews. He also funds yearly trips for his students to Auschwitz, which is an hour drive away from Dobczyze. During his most recent trip, Dr. Hersh looked deeper into the Jewish community of Dobczyze, which had been murdered in the Holocaust. Though so much of Jewish life had been wiped away, one of the townspeople showed him the mikva (ritual bath). It is dilapidated after having been burned, with only three walls standing. Dr. Hersh is currently working on making this a historic landmark in order to preserve it.

Thank you to Doctors Malinowski and Hersh and all of the HMC’s Board Members, Survivor Speakers and other wonderful volunteers for carrying forward the HMC’s mission to engage, educate and empower by remembering the Holocaust.

Executive CommitteeGary Karp PresidentSteven D. Grant ChairmanLarry Kraft Vice PresidentAdam Grant SecretaryAlan Zekelman TreasurerLeo EisenbergSteven R. WeisbergArthur J. Weiss

Board of DirectorsFrederick BlechmanStuart FalkNelson HershBarbara KappyShari Ferber KaufmanBruce KridlerArie LeibovitzEdward MalinowskiDavid SilbertCharles SilowBubba UrdanAbram WebermanArthur A. Weiss

Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld CEO

Cheryl Guyer Director of Development

Guy Stern, Ph.D. Director, Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous

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Be Sure to Visit Our Special Exhibit

on exhibit through December

Learn the story of Holocaust victim Hedy Strnad, a dress designer, in this exhibit on loan from the Jewish Museum in Milwaukee. Eight beautiful dresses brought to life from Hedy’s sketches represent the incalculable loss caused by the Holocaust. open sunday to Friday – call 248.553.2400, ext. 110 to sign up for docent-led tours at 1:30 p.m. on sundays, nov. 19 and Dec. 10 or 7 p.m. on Mondays, nov. 13 and Dec. 4.

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Sue & Nick hersh33rd Anniversary Dinner Honorees

Ann Curryinternational award-winning

journalist and former NBC News Network anchor

Celebrate our 33rd

anniversary at an elegant

evening featuring a strolling

buffet and an empowering

presentation. stand up to

hatred, antisemitism and

genocide! Your support is

essential. For tickets and

donations, visit our website or

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Please Join Us

Rozie & Bernie FriedmanDinner Chairs

Jackie & Larry KraftDinner Advisors

33Anniversary Dinner

rdsunday, november 5, 2017 • 5:30 p.m.H o n o r e e s Susan & Nelson Hersh

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