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Distant Recognition

Letters from Farmington Hills win status
for a Polish cemetery.

ALAN HITSKY ASSOCIATE EDITOR

he 50-year effort by a
Farmington Hills man to
win recognition for a Jew-
ish cemetery in Poland
reaped rewards this summer.
The former cemetery in Slup-
sk, Poland, which until 1945 was
Stolp, Germany, was given a
second commemorative mon-
ument this summer by the
Polish government.
In 1994, Polish municipal
officials also erected a monu-
ment on the site at the urg-
ing of the Farmington Hills
man, Frank Theyleg; the
German consul in Detroit;
and a Polish historian.
The Theyleg family,
known as Seelig at the time,
fled their home for Shanghai,
China, as World War II
loomed. Mr. Theyleg start-
ed writing Polish authorities
after the war about the ceme-
tery, which contained the

graves of his grandparents and
great-grandparents.
He learned in the 1960s that
a family had preserved the ceme-
tery through the war, and the
West German government hon-
ored them in 1967.

But the cemetery and its
chapel had been turned into a
storage yard after 1945. The ad-
jacent Christian cemeteries were
leveled.
The site now has two monu-
ments in memory of the Jewish
people buried there and a plaque
on the chapel wall. The munici-
pality has employed a caretaker,
is renovating the chapel and is
creating a commemorative park
on the site. O

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Right: Historian Stanislaw Szpilewski
lays flowers at the monument.

Below: A monument and the Jewish
chapel in Slupsk.

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