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Allen Zagier, with newly met cousin Sophie Sulkes. Seventy years ago, Zagier's
dad lived in Sophie's David-Horodok home.

and many others re-connected he was with me. I met a man at
with their David-Horodok roots. the Detroit meeting who re-
It was a commemorative members my father."
event to remember the men and
Zagier's father was named
women who perished. Speakers Arthur. In David-Horodok, it
remembered the village, vali- was Osher Zager. He left the
dating its existence and the im- town in March of 1938.
portance it still has. What was
perhaps the most telling evi-
God was our father, but the
dence came from a glance Horin River was our mother.
around the room. There were She nourished our town. Some
people in their 80s and 90s, con- she made rich, some poor, some
necting with little children. They homes she destroyed in floods,
all had something in common, others she built through wealth
this connection.
brought by the ships, barges,
"I felt very warm being there," rafts and steamers that plied her
said Zagier, who flew in from waters. We were the children of
New Jersey just for this meet- that river.
ing. "I felt very welcome. My fa-
ther died when I was 7. The
The David-Horodoker Women's
more I got into this, I was Organization was formed just be-
shocked and happy. I began to fore World War I. Originally,
feel my father coming alive. I felt members wanted to raise money

Daniel Schecter identifies the location of David-Horodok and the end of Jewish life there.

for charity and maintain connec-
tion with their homeland.
Following the Holocaust, the con-
tributionS went to Israel.
Some 300 relatives immi-
grated from David-Horodok to
Detroit; some 180 families
spread throughout the United
States.
"We left because my family
was looking for a better life,"
said Bessie Kutnick. "'What is
really wonderful is that the
young took over."
Shelley Nadiv was at the JCC

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event with her 10-year-old
daughter Danniell.
"This is so important for all
of us to remember what hap-
pened in David-Horodok," she
said. "This can't ever happen
again. And our children need to
know.
"Our ancestors endangered
their lives so that we can be here
and live as Jews in this country.
I look at my daughter. Some day
she'll be the bubbie [grand-
mother]. She needs those mem-
ories as well."

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Correction

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was'listed for reservations for
the Koach ORT installation, 7
p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3, at
Villa Maria's Restaurant. Call
Jeanne Appel, (248) 926-0033.

Among those who correctly
identified Mandy Patinkin in
Tell Me Why's question about
the first Che in Evita was Ross
John Fazio.

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