iAVOD HA-MET Juvenile Diabetes Association. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. MICHAEL WINEMAN, 44, of Oak Park, died Aug. 12. For l 1 years, Mr. Wineman was a UPS driver. He was a 1972 graduate of Berkley High School, a member of the Teamster's Union and owned and oper- ated several Good Humor ice cream routes. Mr. Wineman is survived by his par- ents, Irving and Shirley Wineman of Oak Park; sister and brother-in-law Lynda and Martin Steinberg of West Bloomfield; brothers and sister-in-law Alan Wineman of Oak Park, Bruce and Julie Wineman of Novi; companion Lisa Bolus. Interment at Clover Hill Park Cemetery. Contributions may be made to Hospice of Michigan and the Karmanos Cancer Institute. Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel. Her/pert Kaufman ,la•al, Feldman P erhaps there is no greater symbol of Kavod Ha-Met (honoring the dead) than the Shomer, the religious watchman who prays for the soul of the deceased. From the first family we served 57 years ago, to the present, our chapel is staffed with a Shomer 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our legacy is serving Detroit's Jewish community with dignity and adherence to tradition. THE KAUFMAN COMMUNITY CORNER Shaarey Zedek Cultural Commission presents "The World ofYiddish In Story and Song" with Bernard Mendelovitch Tues, Aug 24, 1999 at 7:00 pm. THE I RA KAU FMAN CHAPEL Bringing Together Family, Faith & Community native of England, entertains in both English and Yiddish. There is no charge for this event and there will be an Afterglow following the performance. For reservations, call (248) 357-5544. Shaarey Zedek Cultural Commission presents Bernard Mendelovitch, "The World of Yiddish in Story and Song" Tues, Aug 24, 1999 at 7:00 pm at Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield. Mr. Mendelovitch, a . Ignatz Bubis 18325 West Nine Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075 • Te/ephone: 248 - 569 - 0020 • Toll Free: 800 - 325 - 7105 Please visit us at our web site: www.iralcaufinan.com . I : 1_[)V 11/.. ILL I'll-ft J BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN Serving the Entire Jewish Community FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL Robert A. Steinberg, administrator' Andrew M. Phythian, superintendent (248) 549-3411 DETROIT JEWISH NEWS FOR SALE ("fiticiagi at: INTERNATIONAL NEWS PLUS 372 Oullette Avenue • Windsor, Canada 8/20 II 1999 154 Detroit Jewish News The man who wit- nessed the near destruction of German Jewry in the Holocaust, but survived to help preside over its renaissance, died Aug. 13 at the age of 72. Ignatz Bubis was buried Sunday in Tel Aviv. That he chose to be buried in Israel, rather than in Germany, illus- trates what he called his failure to con- vince his fellow Germans that they can- not escape their past, but bear a unique responsibility to be a light unto other nations in remembering and preventing another Holocaust. Bubis' death came weeks after he said he would rather be buried in Israel than in Germany because he feared that his grave would be desecrated like that of his predecessor, Heinz Galinski. Ironically, Bubis' grave was desecrated after his funeral by an Israeli. His funeral at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel Aviv was attended by German President Johannes Rau, Israeli President Ezer Weizman and 200 mourners. Bubis is survived by his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Naomi Ann. In Germany, Bubis was mourned as a man who brought his own experience as a Holocaust survivor to bear on behalf of all minority groups in Germany. When Bubis believed his fellow citi- zens had failed to learn from their tragic history, he blamed himself. "I am ashamed for you," he said from a podi- um in Berlin when neo-Nazis threw stones and tomatoes at Germans demonstrating against racism in 1992. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Berlin (JTA) — Germany had lost someone who "helped to make it possible for fellow Jewish citizens to again see a future in Germany." Through immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union, Germany's Jewish community has more than dou- bled to 75,000 since Bubis took leader- ship of the German Jewish community in 1992. Berlin Mayor Eberhard Diepgen mourned the loss of a "personal adviser." Diepgen had fought bit- terly against the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, which Bubis had backed. Last year, Bubis criticized German writer Ignatz Bubis Martin Walser for saying it was time to stop using the term "Auschwitz" as a whip against Germany. In 1996, Bubis met with Yasser Arafat in Germany. He urged the Palestinian to have more patience in the struggle for peace. Bubis said he supported a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, but not at the expense of protecting the memorials at concentration camp sites. Germany's culture minister, Michael Naumann, recently promised to nearly double the funding available to such memorials. Bubis, who was born in 1927 in Breslau — now Wroclaw, Poland, but then a part of Germany — lost his father and two siblings in the • Holocaust. He was liberated from a labor camp in 1945 by the Russian army. Last December, the Berlin grave- stone of his predecessor, Heinz Galinski, was destroyed by a bomb. On Sunday, after the funeral in Tel Aviv, Meir Mendelssohn of Tel Aviv, a self-described artist, sprayed paint into Bubis' grave as gravediggers shoveled in dirt. Mourners apparently did not see the incident but it was captured on video. Mendelssohn told police that Bubis was "a bad man." On Tuesday, President Clinton issued a statement lauding Bubis. "At a time when conflicts in the Balkans have confronted Europe and the world with seemingly intractable hatred, the example of Ignatz Bubis is one we must all heed," Clinton said.