24 Friday, October 1, 1976
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
SURVIVORS
OF 1945
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Traverse Temple
Has Guest Rabbi
Traverse City's .Temple
Beth El will host Rabbi
David B. Weisberg for its
High Holiday services.
Guests are invited.
Rabbi Weisberg is pro-
fessor of Bible and Semi-
tic languages at Hebrew-
Union College. He has
held pulpits in Chicago,
Cincinnati and New York.
The temple announces
Mrs. Sue Fishman was
elected president at the
annual election meeting.
Other officers are Abe
Polansky, vice president,
Terry Tarnow, secretary;
and Jenny Belfour, trea-
surer.
YIZKOR MESSAGE
To the Jewish Community
in behalf of Memorial Center
by the Shaarit Haplaytah.
By Mayer Lipman
Chairman of the Advisory Committee of the
Memorial Center. Former educator of Tarbut
Schools in Poland and United Hebrew Schools of
Detroit. Underground fighter during Nazi
Tyrany in World War II.
Rabbi Named
The days of ROSH HASHANA and YOM KIPPUR are days of man's self-examination ; days of
taking stock between man and his Creator.
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All the prayers are directed towards man's life, and man's life depends upon the will and mercy of
his Creator. Thus in the prayers we recite, "The whole world trembles before you ; for who is not
counted on this day ; the record of all creation comes before you." The prayer UNSANE TOKEF is a
prayer of man pleading for mercy and life not to be punished with death. From these days of awe we
learn that everything is centered between the living and his Creator, and that all of it is on the basis of
the persons deeds and examination of them. Still, there is a moment during these days of awe when
we separate ourselves from the living and instead transfer our thought process to be united with our
holy departed ones. This is the moment of YIZKOR. For the dead the days of awe have no personal
relevance. Their account with God and its consequences has already been settled. However, for us
the living, the ties with the dead continue so long as we possess our souls, and upon us, the living, rests
a holy duty. Not to break the ties with our departed, and forever to keep their blessed memory.
On this day of YOM KIPPUR, everyone immersed in his own personal wounds and pains unites with
his near and dear beloved ones who in one form or another was plucked from his midst, and left him
with an irreparable wound. We pray to God to remember them. In our days the YIZKOR is the most
tragic one ever since the world was created. Our souls and bodies weep and say YIZKOR over a
community of six million martyrs murdered, gased, butchered, and buried olive by Nazi Germany
and their collaborators.
At this moment with bowed heads, broken hearts, depressed spirits, and trembling bodies, we will
say YIZKOR over the great loss that will no longer return. However, you do know that our holy
martyrs left a will with us. The sacred will was that we remember and do not forget. Remember the
fathers and mothers that were led like sheep to slaughter and gave their lives because they were
Jews. Remember and don't forget our brothers and sisters whose breaths of life were choked in the
gas chambers of MAIDANEK, TREMBLINKA, and AUSHWITZ. Remember and do not forget the
million children and infants who were buried alive in the sight of their mothers, and whose valiant
attempts to cling to life were squashed by the sadistic Nazi murderers. Remember and do not
forget the thousands of fighters in the Ghettos and in the forests and undergrounds whose heroism is a
badge of honor to Jews everywhere, and whose bodies are dispersed on the fields, mountains,
valleys, and forests. -We that remained alive, whether we experienced that tragedy or not, must
consider ourselves as if we were survivors of MAIDANEK, TREMBLINKA, and AUSHWITZ.
We the firebrand saved from the fire remember and do not forget that we survived for a mission,
and a great and holy responsibility rests upon us to continue the chain of Jewish survival. For we
survivors of European Jewry, concentration camps, gas ovens, prisons, and the like, it is not enough
just to be satisfied with saying YIZKOR. in spite of all our material accomplishments, our souls are still
possessed with a silent inner restless turmoil that searches for peace of mind. That peace of mind can
come only by establishing a living functional memorial center. A living monument means a spiritual
center in memory of our six million martyrs. This center will serve as a permanent memorial of our
European communities that were destroyed. This Memorial Center will eternalize in a respected
visible form hundreds of thousands of individuals who perished' under the Nazis, and who left no
survivors. Daily KADISH will be said in their memories, as well as in the memories of the Communities.
Eternal lights will accompany their memories. Each day eternal lights and KADISH will be said in
memory of indivuals and communities dedicated for this day. In the course of each year, all European
communities and all individuals whose names we shall succeed to obtain will have been memorialized.
This Memorial Center will serve as a living and conspicuous memorial until the end of our days. This
Memorial Center will serve as a living testimony to the generations that will come after us; that there
was a Hitler and Nazis who destroyed in a most brutal manner one third of our people. This Memorial
Center will serve as a source from which visitors will be imbued with the heroism, self-sacrifice, and
struggle for life of our martyred brothers and sisters.
This Memorial Center will provide its visitors with all the material relative to the Holocaust: The
tragic fate of each country, each city, and the highlights of their history will be prominently
displayed.
The responsibility to establish this Memorial Center rests upon each and every Jew in whose heart
still flickers the spirit of our people and the sufferings of six million of our bretheren. However, we the
survivors, are the first and original witnesses to the holocaust and probably the last to move and fulfill
the will of our holy martyrs. Today, before we say YIZKOR, our departed souls hover upon our heads
demanding from us — do not forget us. They say to us, establish a living monument to remember us,
because our death and your life are inter-related. Tell your children. Who will tell the children that
come after you what happened to us if not this Memorial Center? Who will tell your children the living
HAGADA of Hitler and his people if not this Memorial Center?
Upon us rests this responsibility. -This responsibility we have already accepted. Land has been
purchased, plans are being prepared, and construction will soon begin. I plead with you my brothers
and sisters, make your contribition to this sacred cause. Give as much as you can, but give from your
heart.
May God bless you with a good year. Send your contributions to:
Shaarit Haplaytah Memorial Center
- 3811 W. 12 Mile Rd.
Berkley, Michigan 48072
Contributions to Memorial Center are tax deductible.
Rabbi Lane Steinger
has been named associate
rabbi at Temple
Emanu-El. _He _was for-
merly rabbi of Temple
Emanu-El in Greens-
burg, Pa.
Yeshiva U. Holds
Grief Conference
NEW YORK — The
third in a series of
pioneering conferences to
advance research and
practical ,efforts by all
disciplines engaged in the
care of the bereaved and
the study of the effects of
grief will be held at
Yeshiva University in
New York on Oct. 19.
The Third Annual In-
terdisciplinary Educa-
tional Conference on Be-
reavement and Grief is
being jointly sponsored
by the Jewish Funeral.
Directors of America,
Inc., members of allied
professions throughout
the nation, and Yeshiva
University.
Some 35 of America's
leading figures in the
field, among them
psychiatrists, psycholo-
gists, social workers,
educators, ministers,
rabbis, jurists, funeral
directors, nursing home
•administrators and in-
dustry executives will
participate in the all-day
event as speakers and
panelists in workshop
sessions.
Services
Synagogue
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TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 5:30 p.m. today and 11
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Hertz will speak on "It's Time
to Return to Personal Judaism." William Raminick,
Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 9 p.m. today, 9 a.m.
and 7 p.ru. Saturday. Frank Friedman, Bar Mitzva
at late Saturday services.
BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today.
Rabbi Wine will speak on "Skills for Survival —
Hoping."
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 7 p.m. today and 8:45
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Stanley Rosenbaum will
speak on "No-Nos."
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15 p.m. today. Rabb'
Milton Rosenbaum will speak on "A Double We
come," honoring new members and Rabbi ana
Mrs. Lane Steinger to the congregation. Rabbi
Steinger will respond.
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 pim.- today. Rabbi
Fram will speak on "The World Within." Robert
Millman, Bar Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday.
David Viviano. Bar 1VIitzva.
TEMPLE KOL AMI: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi
Conrad will speak on "Jewish Priorities: an As-
sessment."
CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYIM: Services 7 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Leo Goldman will speak
on "The Significance of Shuva."
Regular services will be held at Adat Shalom
Synagogue, Cong. Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield,
Cong. Beth Abraham-Hillel, Cong. Beth Achim, Cong.
Beth Isaac of Trenton, Temple Beth Jacob of Pontiac,
Cong. Beth Jacob-Mogain Abraham, Cong. Beth
Moses, Cong. Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah, Cong. Beth
Tephilath Moses of Mt. Clemens, Cong. Bnai Israel of
Pontiac, Cong. Bnai Israel-Beth Yehudah, Cong.
Bnai Jacob, Cong. Bnai Zion, Cong. D-ovid Ben
Nuchim, Downtown Synagogue, Ha-Ner Ha-Tamid,
Livonia Jewish Congregation, Cong. Mishkan Israel
Nusach H'Ari, Cong. Shaarey Zedek, Shomer Israel
(13430 W. Seven Mile), Cong. Shomrey Emunah,
Y oung Israel of Greenfield, Young Israel of Oak-
Woods and Young Israel of Southfield (27705 Lahser).
Bnai Moshe Has Membership Drive
In the past six weeks, 30
Cong. Bnai Moshe has
announced a new mem- families have joined the
bership drive. The mem- congregation,' and those
bership committee also _interested in joining may
has developed new plans contact Marvin Schader,
executive director at the
for the dues structure.
. synagogue, 548-9000.
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