DETROIT 7 50 THE if:WI H NEWS 1 21 CHESHVAN 5754/NOVEMBER 5, 1993 Aside BUSINESS Healthy At Home Private-duty nursing becomes big business. Page 38 FOCUS Community Access Emigres use talent for Russian cable TV Page 64 Contents on page 3 New Agenda For Borman Hall in five months, community leaders will decide to sell or close Borman Hall and relocate its residents. RUTH UTTMANN STAFF WRITER D etroit's Jewish Federation will maintain the responsibility of car- ing for the elderly, but Borman Hall nursing home will be sold or closed some time in 1994, officials said Tuesday. After more than a year of delibera- tions about the Home's future, com- munity leaders have determined that the 28-year-old Seven Mile Road facil- ity in Detroit is too expensive and prob- lematic to continue operating. The plan does not affect the Home's facilities at Prentis Manor in Southfield and Fleis- chman Residence in West Bloomfield. "Borman Hall simply does not work any longer — if it ever did — as a skilled nursing home for our community," said David Page, president of the Jewish Fed- eration of Metropolitan Detroit, which supports the facility. "We are not aban- doning frail elderly in this community. Quite the contrary. "We continue to reaffirm that, for the '90s and the next century, we have a com- mitment to find the best ways to meet their needs. But we can't and don't feel comfortable about discharging that re- sponsibility in the facility on Seven Mile Road," Mr. Page said. "We must find some other solution." On Tuesday, board members of the Federation, Jewish Home for Aged and United Jewish Foundation proposed three basic plans of action, with implementa- tion to begin late next spring. The first option involves selling Bor- man Hall to an owner who would main- tain it with its current residents and Jewish programming. A second plan, which could occur si- multaneously, is to relocate Borman Hall residents to facilities with Jewish pro- gramming, or with plans for developing Jewish programming with Federation's help. BORMAN page 16 Close Up: Akiva's trip to the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., brings tears and sadness to three generations of Detroiters. Studying about the Holocaust. KIMBERLY LIFTON STAFF WRITER illian Wohl of Southfield says she wasn't slated to get a number tattooed on her arm during the Holocaust. As a teen-ager not strong enought for heavy work, "I was destined for the gas chamber," recalled Mrs. Wohl, one of 115 metropolitan Detroiters who last week toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum during a one- day trip to Washington, D.C. "By accident, I sur- vived." What she believes was an accident might very well have been a mother's plan to save her child's life during World War II. Mrs. Wohl's mother switched places with her then 14-year-old daugh- ter while they stood in separate lines at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. One line was slated for the labor camp. At the head of the other line was Josef Mengele, "the an- gel of death," who moved hordes of Jews direct- ly into a gas chamber. Mrs. Wohl watched in horror as her mother walked to her death. LLJ CC CD >- CC >- C0 CJD CD I-- CD REMEMBRANCE page 30 0- Alex Greenberger finds a photo of a friend.