Save the Date – November 11, 2012

This November, we will celebrate 28 years of preserving precious memories and promoting tolerance. The Holocaust Memorial Center and its educational programming were made possible through the

hard work, dedication and generosity of many. It is up to us now to lead it into the future. Please join Dinner Chairs Karen and Joel Kahn on November 11 to affirm your support for our critical mission.Speaking to us that evening will be Father Patrick Desbois, a hero of our times. President of Yahad–In Unum, Father Desbois has devoted his life to confronting antisemitism and furthering Catholic-

Jewish understanding. Since 2001, he has received international acclaim for his extraordinary work to locate every mass grave and site in the Ukraine at which Jews were killed during the Holocaust, and to collect artifacts and record video testimonies from eyewitnesses. That evening, it will be our pleasure to honor Henrietta and Alvin Weisberg for their outstanding commitment to the Center and our community. Longtime benefactors of Congregation Shaarey Zekek, the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, the Jewish Community Center, Hillel Day School, the Frankel Jewish Academy, the Jewish Theological Seminary and

Beaumont Hospitals, Henrietta and Alvin are the parents of Julie and Steven Schlafer and Steven and Lori Weisberg, who is a docent at the Center. A

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Courage & Compassionthe Legacy of the bielski brothers July 15 – November 4

Beginning on July 15, the Holocaust Memorial Center will bring you the exhibit, Courage & Compassion: The Legacy of the Bielski

Brothers. In 1941, the Nazis initiated their campaign against the Jews of Belarus. Brothers Tuvia, Zus and Asael Bielski refused to become victims and committed themselves to rescue and resistance. They escaped to the forest and recruited relatives, friends and complete strangers. The brothers welcomed all who chose to fight back, even if they could not engage in combat. Ultimately 1,200 Jews were saved from certain death.This exhibit begins with life in Belarus, accounts of escape, and the formation of probably the most famous partisan detachment. Through panels, artifacts and interactives, the exhibit shows us the courage and commitment of this intrepid band of rebels.The exhibit will open on July 15 with a presentation by Tuvia Bielski’s granddaughter, Sharon Rennert, and a special tour of the exhibit. A

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The 28th Anniversary Dinner will be held at Congregation Shaarey Zedek on the evening of Sunday, November 11, 2012.

For more information, please call 248.553.2400, ext. 21.

28 th Anniversary Dinner summer 2012

educating the Next GenerationYour Generosity at work

Each year, nearly 50,000 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 geographic diversity of our visitors is astounding! Just since the beginning of March 2012, groups have visited from these Michigan cities, including some you may not even have known existed. A

building a Lasting Legacy As our Holocaust Memorial Center

Zekelman Family Campus touches ever greater numbers of lives, it becomes even more important to assure its future. The value of the museum and its programs is inestimable, but the lights must stay on, the bills must be paid and educational outreach must continue.I know that many of you would like to make a significant gift so that the Center can continue to deliver its critical message to the next generation, but your generosity must be tempered by financial responsibility for yourselves and your families. There are ways to make a significant gift without jeopardizing your ability to meet current and future personal obligations. You needn’t be a millionaire to be a generous donor while meeting your responsibilities to your heirs.Outright bequests You can direct in your will that the Center receive a certain sum, property, stock or percentage of your estate. Providing income for Family Members If your financial responsibilities to family members extend beyond your lifetime, testamentary charitable remainder trusts or gift annuities can provide both a gift to help the Center and a stream of income to your beneficiaries.You can play a major role in the future of Holocaust education in Michigan through your estate plan. The impact of your planned gift will be felt for years to come. A

For more information, please contact:Cheryl Guyer Director of Development 248.553.2400, ext. 23 cheryl.guyer@holocaustcenter.org

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: Alan Zekelman

RighT: the eisenberg family visits the Portraits of honor exhibit they helped make possible.

RighT: the Ferber and Kaufman families gather together after Shari Ferber Kaufman’s (second from

right) stirring presentation.

BeLow: three generations of the Karp family light a candle in memory of those who perished.

brandon Alternative high School from Ortonville, Michigan with docent Penny Deitch

from My DeskStephen M. GoldmanE x ecu t i v e D i r ec to r

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Yom HaShoahHolocaust Remembrance Dayphotos by Brett Mountain Photography

RighT: eisenhower elementary School from

Flint, Michigan with docent Dodie harris

RighT: (left to right) eric Silverberg, ellen Silverberg, brian Sayles, Julia Sayles, Suzanne Moran and isabel

Moran from temple Kol Ami

ABove: Chandler Park Academy from harper woods, Michigan with docent Alan eidelman

RighT: Survivor grandchildren

(left to right) Jeffrey berris, Allison Karp

and Laurenne Kaufman lead a

responsive reading.

ABove: (left to right) George Vine, Julian and Rose wagner, and Abram weberman

RighT: Jewish war Veterans honor Guard

RighT: Charley Silow shows holocaust Survivors, including barbara Cohen, their new Portraits of honor Passports that will be distributed to visiting students as a learning aid.

Dear Holocaust Memorial Center,I want to let you know that Birmingham Covington’s 7th and 8th grade students were so moved by our field trips to the Holocaust Memorial Center. Every tour guide and survivor was incredible with our

students. I can’t imagine that our students

could have had a better complement to our

study of genocides and more specifically the

Holocaust and The Diary of Anne Frank. Thank you for helping us to arrange our field trips and such an incredible experience

for our students.

Best regards,Judy Share 7/8 Language Arts Birmingham Covington School

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Thank you to our 2011 Donors!

that need to be made, call 248.553.2400, ext. 29 to let us know.

ABove: Carolyn Dorfman (seated in center) visits the hMC with her sister Gayle weiss, and her husband and daughter Gregory and Rebecca Gallick, while in town for international holocaust Remembrance Day performances of the Dorfman Legacy Dance Project at the berman Center.

irrefutable, Mind-Numbing evidence...Photographs from the Concentration Camps

Hitler’s goal to exterminate the Jewish people was his “top secret” plan and it is well known that taking pictures in the concentration camps was strictly

forbidden. Not well known was the existence of administrative offices within the camps called Erkennungsdienst, Identification Services, which took and developed photos, produced films of camp “happenings,” documented medical experiments and arranged special albums for camp commanders. Most of this evidence was purposely destroyed at the end of the war, although some did survive and continue to surface. Camps such as Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Stutthof and Mauthausen all had these types of “services.” Extermination camps did not, as the prisoners were murdered shortly after arrival. The largest collection of concentration camp photos we have today comes from the photos taken by the liberators and soldiers who entered the camps. Our Library Archive has become a repository for hundreds of these photos. We regularly receive photos found in attics, basements, old albums or even walls of homes. Donors feel obligated to share them as contributions to history. Many donors are uncomfortable even having them in their homes. By donating them to our Center, donors do something positive with something so utterly evil.

The most well known among concentration camp photos is the “Signal Corps Photos” taken by groups of U.S. Army cameramen. General Eisenhower was enraged by the horrific scenes he encountered, and he ordered the Signal Corps to take photos. This operation became a model of efficiency with photos made available to the public within 24 hours, a great

accomplishment at the time. He also ordered all civilian news media and military camera units to visit the camps, record their observations in print, pictures and film and to send their reports back home. Soldiers were encouraged to take their own photos. These raw images flooded the cinema newsreels, newspapers and magazines of the day, and had a far greater effect than any anti-Nazi propaganda the Allies could ever produce. This pictorial evidence defies

description. As gruesome and heartbreaking as these photos are, it is our duty to preserve them for posterity. When photos arrive, we carefully enclose them in acid-free sleeves, catalog and store them in a humidity controlled environment. They are used for educational purposes only, such as in our permanent exhibits, for loan to other institutions and for training. This is our mission and we are prepared to accept as many photographs as are brought to us. A

the American Jewish Committee visits with German Consul General Onno hückmann.

LefT: Local artist Marc R. Maddin (seated at far left) works with our Survivor Speakers to create beautiful slide shows that enhance their presentations.

the Library Archives

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Nick Altwerger • Penny Deitch • Anita Devine • Alan Eidelman • Leslie Kutinsky • Michael Liebowitz • Gilbert Plotnik • Bette Rose Welcome New Docents!

Post-liberation photos donated by former U.S. servicemen and medical personnel.

Remembering Rabbi Rosenzveig z”l With summer upon us, the Holocaust Memorial Center

continues to expand its message of hope, remembrance and tolerance to people in all of our surrounding communities.None of this would have been possible without the vision and tireless efforts our founder, Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig z’’l. With the help of the Shaarit Haplaytah and others too numerous to mention, Rabbi Rosenzveig made the dream of this institution a reality. He was relentlessly determined and resilient in overcoming the many hurdles he faced, first in opening the doors to the HMC and then nurturing it into an acclaimed institution of remarkable sophistication.

It is in this spirit, and in recognition of the HMC’s roots, that we recently put the final touches on a permanent dedication to Rabbi Rosenzveig on the wall adjacent to the building’s main entrance. Rabbi Rosenzveig inspired many of us to continue his formidable work. It is his legacy that enables the HMC to educate and touch nearly 50,000 middle and high school students annually. These students, often knowing little about the Holocaust prior to their visit, are consistently moved by the docent-led tours which are then culminated by the experiences related in person by our precious survivors. A

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Our esteemed women of Ravensbrück featured in the exhibit, (left to right) Paula Marks-bolton, Lola taubman, Agi Rubin, elizabeth wees and irene Snitchler

RighT: women of Ravensbrück exhibit supporters Alison and Richard taubman with

Richard’s mother Lola taubman

BeLow: women of Ravensbrück exhibit supporters Rob and Linda Powers (right), their

son Stephen, and her brother Rex Lanyi (left)

Florine Mark, President and CeO of weight watchers Group, speaks on “the Courageous women inside each of Us” at the opening of the women of Ravensbrück exhibit.

Sara byer, Sheldon and heather Siegel, Associate Professor of history at Oakland University Derek hastings, Donna Sklar and Deanna tachna (left to right) at Dr. hastings’ presentation on Rethinking the Roots of Nazism

(left to right) Michael treblin, Alexander Karp, Alan Zekelman, Rabbi Charles h. Rosenzveig z”l, Steven Grant and Gary Karp in 2007

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Courage and Compassion: the Legacy of the bielski brothersSunday, July 15 • 2:30 p.m.The Bielski Partisans were a famous resistance group operating against the Nazis during the occupation of Poland and Belarus. The exhibit

opening will include a special presentation by Tuvia Bielski’s granddaughter, Sharon Rennert.

Special Exhibit and Programs

A hero Remembered: the Raoul wallenberg CentennialJuly 29–August 5Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg was one of the ultimate heroes of the Holocaust, rescuing tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary. In 1945, Wallenberg was imprisoned by the Soviet authorities.A special exhibit and full week of programs shed light on Wallenberg’s life, his extraordinary courage, and Michigan connections. 

For more information about programs and events, please contact Rebecca Swindler at 248.553.2400 x13 or rebecca.swindler@holocaustcenter.org

In partnership with Eastern Michigan University

teaching the holocaust: A Seminar for teachersAugust 13-17Teachers and School of Education students gather at this intensive, 5-day training program focusing on children during the Holocaust, worth 3 credit hours or 9 SB-CEUs. This session focuses on establishing a sound historical background for teaching students of all ages the lessons of the Holocaust.

$100 tuition includes SB-CEU fees, course materials, and breakfast and lunch daily. An additional fee will be assessed for undergraduate or graduate credits.n More information: http://ep.emich.edu/holocaust.n Contact Sarah Painter at spainter@emich.edu with

questions or to register.

Governance CommitteeGary Karp PresidentSteven D. Grant* ChairmanAlexander KarpLarry KraftAbraham PasternakDavid SilbertMichael H. Treblin*George VineMartin S. WaterAbram Weberman Alan Zekelman*

board of DirectorsSidney BolkoskyMolly ChernowLeo EisenbergStuart FalkAdam GrantJoel E. JacobShari Ferber KaufmanBruce KridlerArie LeibovitzEdward MalinowskiAliza NivyJack ShenkmanGary ShiffmanCharles SilowRussell SteinmanEric ToddArthur J. Weiss

Stephen M. Goldman Executive DirectorGuy Stern Director, Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the RighteousRabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig z’’l Founding Director*Past President

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Save the DateGuest Speaker Father Patrick DesboisA Hero of Our TimesNovember 11

28 t h Anniversary Dinner