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A Grand Rapids couple take time to smell the roses

MEGAN SWOYER
Assistant Section Editor

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ora and Leonard Rosenzweig
are educating dozens of peo-
ple every day on the loss of
the more than one million
children who perished in the Holocaust.
But the schooling doesn't take place
in a classroom. Nor do these "students"
learn about the sad story through a his-
tory book. Rather, Dora, 88, and

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Leonard, 94, have chosen orchids --
along with a low wall and a plush, ver-
dant environment — to indirectly con-
vey the tale and its message:
The Grand Rapids couple have
funded a special Holocaust memorial at
the Frederik Meijer Gardens, which
opened three years ago in Grand
Rapids. Among beautiful sculptures,
trickling water, exotic ferns and palms
and colorful foliage, the Orchid Wall,
which was dedicated in memory of

and orchids.

Anne Frank and all the children who
died in the Holocaust, reminds visitors
to stop and remember.
"I hope that people think about
Anne and how she believed that life is
beautiful and that there's good in all
people," says Dora Rosenzweig from
her winter home in Florida. She and
her husband were young adults during
the'Holocaust. "[During the Holo-

ORCHIDS

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