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The Jewish Historical. Society of
Michigan (JHS) is building a collec-
tion of yearbooks from Detroit area
public and private high schools
attended by Jewish students.
"Our parents' and grandparents'
yearbooks from Northern, Cass
Tech, Central, Mumford or other
schools are valuable historical docu-
ments to us today," said president
Joan Braun.
"Years from now," she said, "peo-
ple will thank us for also preserving
yearbooks of the current younger
generations, right up to the 1999
books from Oak Park, Southfield,
Berkley, Birmingham, Farmington
Hills, Bloomfield Hills, Walled Lake
and other public high schools, and
from private schools like Akiva,
Hillel, Yeshiva Beth Yehudah and
Beth Jacob, Cranbrook and Country
Day."
"The history of Jewish Detroit is
not only about charitable organiza-
tions, synagogues and political
activism," Braun said. "It includes
teenagers' everyday lives, school
clubs, dress and hair styles, influen-
tial teachers and much more — all
contained in the yearbooks."
The JHS also wants to collect the
booklets distributed at high school
reunions. These can help people
seeking old friends while serving as a
historical record about students and
staff listed in the books. Other
books and documents dealing with
the history of Detroit's Jewish com-
munity are welcome for the society's
collection, she added, along with
yearbooks from middle schools and

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Survivor Recounts Wartime Shtetl

The Jewish Genealogical Society of
Michigan is co-sponsoring the Jewish
Book Fair talk of Yaffa Eliach, author
of There Once Was a World: A 900-Year

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junior highs (intermediate schools)
and elementary schools.
All donations will be labeled with
bookplates acknowledging the
donors. Their names will be listed
whenever yearbooks are used in
exhibits sponsored by the Jewish
Historical Society of Michigan.
Donors will receive free admission to
the first exhibit of the yearbooks.
The yearbook and reunion book col-
lection will be kept safe and secure
(accessible for inspection and copy-
ing) in the society's office at the D.
Dan & Betty Kahn Building of the
Jewish Community Center in West
Bloomfield.
Donors may bring their year-
books or reunion books to the
Jimmy Prentis Morris Building of
the JCC in Oak Park 8 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 8, when the
Historical Society of Michigan co-
sponsors author Bea Kraus at the
Jewish Book Fair.
JHS also needs volunteers to help
collect the yearbooks and reunion
books and to create a computerized"
index of people pictured and named
in the books.
The organization seeks additional
funding to finance the maintenance
and utilization of the collection.
Donors may name all or a portion of
the collection.
For information on any aspect of
the JHS project, call or e-mail one of
the project chairs: Marc Manson,

Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok.

Eliach, a professor in the Judaic stud-
ies department of Brooklyn College,
will speak 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14, at
the D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building of
the Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield.
Eliach was born in Eishyshok,
Lithuania. In September 1941, the
Germans killed the almost 5,000

Jews living in her small town. The
few who survived, including the
author, stayed in hiding until their
liberation in July 1944.
Eliach spent 17 years document-
ing the life of the town's Jews. A for-
mer member of President Jimmy
Carter's Holocaust Commission, she
created a Tower of Life at the U.S.
Holocaust Museum in Washington,
a display of 1,500 photographs
depicting the people of Elishyshok.
Her book was a nonfiction finalist
for the National Book Award.

