awager**;orMR01.04.04maisoc;rawai/tor-• Each month in this space, L'Chayim will look back into issues of The Jewish News to see what was happening in the local Jewish community or in the Diaspora 10, 20 and 40 years ago. TEN YEARS AGO Netherlands Queen Juliana and Otto Frank, 90-year-old father of Anne Frank, made a special pilgrimage on what would have been Anne Frank's 50th birthday, to the building where he, his family s 6, and four other Jews spent two years hiding from the Nazis. A proposal for the construction of a Holocaust Memorial Center as a wing of the Jewish Community Center at Maple and Drake Roads was approved. 20 YEARS AGO The Financial Times reported that Israel was the largest single market for West German goods in the Middle East. Sol King was elected president of the Engineering Society of Detroit. 40 YEARS AGO Ben Paul Brasley, prominent Pittsburgh attorney and communal leader, donated $50,000 to the building fund of the B'nai B'rith Hillel Foundation at the University of Michigan. The first immigrant to the State of Israel from the Soviet Union was Sophie Garfinkel, 76, who moved with her daughters to Kfar Gileadi. Kids Bored? Let Them Research Family Tree By MIRIAM WEINER One of the best summer projects for your children which is guaranteed to keep them busy is to introduce them to their family history. The project can include the creation of a family tree, interviews with relatives and perhaps a trip to the old neighborhoods where their parents or grandparents once lived as children. What can children learn from exploring their family history besides the obvious connections to their ancestors — a little history, some geography, perhaps a few words of a foreign language (Yiddish might really turn them on), but most important, a strengthening of their Jewish identity with the special bonding to their past generated by the creation of their own family tree. One book which may be useful is Children of Our Children by Helene Daniel, Augusta Feller (Winston-Derek Publishers, Inc.) The easy-to-use format of this book begins with the immigrant generation, providing space to fill in names, dates and places. Various holidays are described with room to write down family recipes and holiday traditions. The next part of the book talks about religious training with space to record' religious ceremonies and insert bar/bat mitzvah photos. There is even a section entitled "The Healer" which talks about Grandma's chicken soup. The book continues into the courtship years of the parents, how they spent vacations, and the changing times through life cycle events including weddings and deaths. A special section entitled "Honor Your Name" talks about the importance of each person's name and provides space for Hebrew name and the person named after. There are special sections on the Holocaust, Israel, the family service record, yahrzeit records, always with space for handwritten notes, memories and photographs. The well-illustrated volume concludes with space for both the father's and mother's family trees and a glossary. In My Generations: A Course in Jewish Family History (Behrman House), Arthur Kurzweil has interposed Jewish history and tradition throughout the many personal illustrations of his own family history. Although this book was written specifically for young Ramla Update By LAWRENCE JACKIER Detroit has completed its financial commitment to our partners in Ramla, but the relationship continues. Detroit remains committed to two projects in Ramla: the Senior Citizens' Center and the after-school enrichment tutoring program for elementary school children. An endowment fund through United Jewish Charities has been created for Ramla with $500,000 from previously raised Project Renewal gifts. The interest from this fund will be used to cover maintenance costs for facilities and for special programming. Also, Detroit's Sinai Hospital retains a connection with Ramla's Assaf Harofeh Hospital. Sinai has sent used equipment and surgical supplies to the Israeli hospital, and the Assaf Harofeh medical director visited here while on a trip to the United States. A Sinai internal medicine resident spent three weeks in Ramla. people, it continues to be a valuable resource for family historians of all ages. This book also allows ample space for the reader to record his or her own family data along with photographs. However, it is the individual essays in each category such as "where did you come from, what is your name, when you get married, visiting a Jewish cemetery, your most important possessions, what do you eat, our oldest books, family documents, stories about my ancestors' occupations, organizations we joined, and relatives who perished in the Holocaust" which make this book unique and special. Also see Toledoteinu: Finding Your Own Roots (Arbit Books), and My Family Heritage edited by F.. Michael Carroll (Carriage House Publications, Ltd.) All of these books stress the same basics: interview the oldest living family members, identify old photos, collect copies of old family documents and record what you find. PROJECT RENEWAL PUZZLE Answers to puzzle from Page L-10 CBDNEIGHBORHOODLC H SHEJPWT S V E N V AYXP ITVOMDAYCARESTWOA LNNT EHX V L I SF A EKNR D ARSENI ORSCOLEPIT RRTH BFS D V M H R MNI HN E GFAMILIESODASXTE N 1BZTXNHJ ZOPRLAWR A MWAPSZANRLAJZROS XMPROGRESSERXHRRH TIORTEDI J LXKOLDGI OTLG NI S UOHR P WAOXP P ROJ ECTRENEWALDWZ Lawrence Jackier is Detroit's Project Renewal chairman. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS L-11