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• Parking lot purchases
must be paid in full at
time of sale.

• Cash, Check,
MasterCard, Visa,
Discover Card.

• Delivery extra on
parking lot purchases.

• No phone orders.

•No returns, refunds,
exchanges or
cancellations.

•All merchandise
subject to prior sale.

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OUTSIDE... SAVE UP TO

80%

ON EVERYTHING IN THE PARKING LOT
RAIN OR SHINE!

One Million Dollars worth of contemporary
home furnishings are slashed for 2 Days Only—
leather furniture, sleepers, upholstery, marble
tables, dining chairs, dinettes, bedrooms,
mattresses, entertainment centers, paintings,
halogen lamps, Techline and more. You'll find
unbelievable savings on truckloads of special
buys we've negotiated just for this event, and
items from our stores that are discontinued,
slow movers, slightly damaged, ordering
mistakes or one-of-a-kinds.

Jewish-owned stores on Potsdamer Street in Berlin, demolished during
Kristallnacht.

■ INSIDE... We'll Pay Your Sales Tax!
Plus Save Up To 60% on All Purchases!

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•Techline is excluded
from "No Tax In-Store"
offer.

•All sales final.

Inside the store we're offering 2 Day Only discounts on
loads of in-stock and special order merchandise. And We'll
Pay the Sales Tax on All In-Store Purchases.

■ DESIGNER SAMPLES... Save Over 70% OFF!

We've purchased an entire showroom at the Michigan
Design Center. All are one-of-a-kind samples from Salotti
International, the premier importer of contemporary leather,
lacquer & glass.

■ TECHLINE... Priced at 40% Savings!

All Techline priced at 40% off is unassembled and
available for pick-up at our warehouse in early August.

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FURNITURE

The Bloomfield Hills store will be closed June 29th & 30th for this event.

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ousted or murdered
throughout the 1300s,
1400s, 1500s and 1600s. In
1571, the city expelled Jews
"forever."
Though forbidden to own
property and heavily taxed,
Jews in Berlin flourished
throughout the 1700s. Con-
sequently, authorities issued
an edict allowing only the
two eldest sons of any Jew-
ish household to live in the
city, then limited the Jewish
community there to 120
families. By 1812, 203 Jew-
ish families were permitted
to live in Berlin.
In 1860, Berlin's Jews
were granted formal civic
equality. They became ac-
tive in the city's cultural and
political life, excelling in the
arts and publishing. Berlin
became known as a city of
tolerance, and by 1925 the
Jewish community increas-
ed to 172,672 — about one-
third of Germany's Jewish
population.
Berlin quickly developed
as the center of the German
Jewish community. It was
the home of reformer Moses
Mendelssohn, of virtually
every German-Jewish
organization, and the site of
the first Reform Jewish ser-
vices, held in 1815 in the
home of Israel Jacobson, a
founder of the movement.
The Jewish population of
Berlin was still at 172,000 in
the early 1930s when the
Nazis rose to power. Soon
the city once famous for its
liberalism began to be
covered with warnings:
Juden unerwuenscht, Jews
not wanted. On Nov. 9, 1938,
Kristallnacht, Berlin's Jew-
ish shops were destroyed, its
synagogues set aflame.
Three years later, the city's
Jewish community was told
to prepare for evacuation.
The destinations: There-
sienstadt, Auschwitz and
Bergen-Belsen.
In the early 1930s, the
Jewish population of Berlin

was more than 160,000. In
1945, it was less than 9,000.
After the war, Berlin serv-
ed as a center for Jewish
displaced persons. The city's
Jews established a news-
paper, a B'nai B'rith
chapter, a students' organ-
ization and a community
council.
But Berlin would not
again be home to the kind of
Jewish community it had
known before the war. To-
day, some 7,000 Jews live in
Berlin — most of them elder-
ly.
"I think it's a big
mistake," Irene Simon of
Oak Park said of the move
from Bonn to Berlin. "Berlin
was where Hitler estab-
lished himself."
Though she left her native
Germany more than 50

In the early 1930s,
the Jewish
population of Berlin
was more than
160,000. In 1945, it
was less than
9,000.

years ago, Mrs. Simon's
memories of the Nazis are
fresh. She cannot forget the
day SS guards arrived at her
home in Grebenau, a small
village about 50 miles nor-
theast of Frankfurt, and
asked for her father. They
told him, "David, you have
to get out. Your house now
belongs to us."
By 1932, "it was impossi-
ble even for Jews to go to
school," Mrs. Simon recall-
ed. "One day you played
with everybody; the next day
you had to go stand in the
corner." The synagogue in
her hometown was
firebombed.
Later, Irene Simon moved
to Fulda, Germany. Among
the songs children in the
village used to call out:
"When Jewish blood comes

