12 Friday, April 8, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Detroit Area Holocaust Memorial Center
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ISRAEL ALIYAH CENTER
A community-wide mem-
bership drive under the
chairmanship of Ivan A.
Bloch has been launched for
the Holocaust Memorial
Center, currently under
construction on the Jewish
community's Maple-Drake
site in West Bloomfield.
Bloch's appointment as
membership chairman was
announced by HMC Board
Chairman Henry Dorfman.
The membership committee
will be reaching out to the
entire community for par-
ticipation in the historic
IVAN BLOCH
project. The HMC will be
the first in this country ex-
clusively designed for the
study of the Holocaust. Leon
Halpern is president and
Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig
is executive director.
With the exterior of the
building completed, plans
are under way for the inter-
ior which will house a
number of unique exhibits,
research and study
facilities. According to
Dorfman, the HMC, will be
"a beautiful memorial to
those who perished during
the Holocaust, as well as a
dynamic institution for
teaching current and future
generations about the les-
sons of the past."
The HMC will include a
Garden of the Righteous
with the names of Gen-
tiles who risked their
lives to help Jews; a
memorial ramp featuring
the voices and pictures of
both the martyred and
the Nazis; and a Hall of
Jewish Culture, depict-
ing European Jewish cul-
tural, religious, scientific
and social traditions. The
hall also will feature an
illuminated map of
European Jewish com-
munities before and after
the war.
The HMC Theater of Re-
membrance will contain
items and graphics of the
Nazi era, and displays
focusing on Jewish life even
under the most difficult
conditions. Names of the
concentration camps will be
recorded in the Eternal
Light Memorial area, where
daily prayers will be held in
memory of 4,500 com-
munities that perished.
In addition to the HMC
archives and books to be
housed in the library, a con-
ference center is planned as
the headquarters for the In-
stitute of Genocidal Studies,
now under development in
cooperation with aca-
demicians from regional
universities. The institute
will offer programs and cur-
ricula for high schools and
universities.
People of all ages, includ-
ing students from through-
out the area, will have ac-
cess to the HMC displays
featuring the latest audio-
visual technology. Focus
will be on the rich heritage
of European Jewry, as well
as the history of anti-
Semitism and the rise of
Nazi brutality:
Community
fund-
raising efforts have
raised $1.6 million to date
toward a goal of $2.5 mil-
lion for the building's
construction and
maintenance. Bloch's
committee will be seek-
ing individual and organ-
ization memberships to
ensure quality pro-
First Woman
to Earn PhD
at Yeshiva U.
28585 Telegraph Rd. Across From Tel-Twelve Mall
Southfield, Mich.
NEW YORK — Dr. Carol
Diament of New Rochelle,
N.Y. has become the first
woman in Yeshiva Univer-
sity's 97-year history to
complete requirements for a
PhD degree in Jewish
studies.
The degree was com-
pleted at the university's
Bernard Revel Graduate
School and will be conferred
upon Dr. 'Diament formally
at the university's June
commencement.
Dr. Diament's thesis was
on David Gordon, editor of
Ha-Maggid the first
Hebrew-language news-
paper and one of the first
men to advocate a Jewish
homeland.
One of the proposed exhibits at the Holocaust
Memorial Center portrays Jewish refugees in Nazi
Europe.
This artist's drawing shows an electronic control
board at the Holocaust Memorial Center which will
permit visitors to learn about European Jewish com-
munities that perished during the Holocaust.
gramming and acquisi-
tion and preservation of
vital historical materials.
Bloch said that members
may join any one of several
categories and will receive
various publications as well
as the opportunity to pre-
view the exhibits. "It's a
wonderful opportunity to be
in the forefront of a project
that is of momentous sig-
nificance to our community,
our country and our people,"
Bloch said.
For information, call
Rabbi Rosenzveig, 661-
0840.
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in Obserbance of
April 10-17, 1983
as
DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE FOR VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST
Over 40 years ago, six-million Jews became the victims of a systematic program
of Nazi genocide; millions were vanquished under the sword of these terrible
atrocities.
Today, the remains of extermination camps at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek,
Buchenwald and Dachau stand as grim reminders of that tragic period in human
history now known as the Holocaust. Future generations must continue to learn
the painful lesson that prejudice, bigotry, oppression and hatred against any
peoples are destructive and contrary to all morality and the human spirit.
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, of which I am a member, is seeking to make
the story of the Holocaust known to future generations through special teaching
programs, commemorative ceremonies, and a new Holocaust Memorial Museum to be
built in Washington, D.C. These efforts will enable future generations to learn
the courageous stories of the Holocaust, such as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,
when many brave people did not hesitate to risk and sacrifice their lives in
order to preserve the dignity and lives of others. This year we commemorate
the 40th anniversary of that uprising. It is one of the many important memories
that must never be lost.
Indeed, it is essential that we continue to remind ourselves of the Holocaust
and its many lessons in an effort to guard against all tyranny, so that we can
better uphold the principles that we cherish dearly, yet must never take for
granted -- the principles of equality, justice and liberty.
Therefore, I, James J. Blanchard, do hereby declare April 10-17, 1983 as Days
of Remembrance for Victims of the Holocaust. Furthermore, I urge all citizens
to join in paying tribute to the martyrs and heroes of the Holocaust and to
support efforts to ensure that the lessons of their sacrifice are never forgotten.
Given under my hand on this fourth days of
April in the year of Our Lord one-thousand
nine-hundred eighty-three and of the Common-
wealth one-hundred forty-seventh.