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think it's important to have these pic-
tures because we're getting older and
we try to let people know what the
Jewish people
went through in
Europe."
Speaking is
Southfield resident
Nettie Adelsberg, a
Holocaust survivor
whose picture is part of
a new photographic
archive sponsored by
DMC Sinai Hospital's
Program for Holocaust Dr. Charles Show
Survivors and Families.
Under the helm of program director
Charles Silow, Ph.D., the project is intended
to preserve the legacy of the Holocaust sur-- - -
vivor community in Detroit, estimated at
between 2,000 and 3,000.
"The idea is to capture for posterity's sake
the importance of the survivors' lives, to give
them all the respect they so much deserve,"
said Dr. Slow, whose parents Sara and the
late Nathan Silow survived the Holocaust.
Charles Slow is also founder and presi-
dent of Children of Holocaust-survivors
Association In Michigan. CHAIM is co-
sponsoring the project, which is aided by a
grant from the Jewish Fund, set up with pro-
ceeds from the sale of Sinai Hospital to the
Detroit Medical Center.
Dr. Silow cited the importance of Steven
Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual
History Foundation and other oral history
projects, such as the one conducted by
Professor Sidney Bolkosky, another project
partner, from the University of Michigan-
Dearborn. For Dr. Silow, this Detroit photo-

Esther Allweiss Tschirhart can be reached at
(248) 354 6060, ext. 264, or by e mail at
etschirh@thejewishnews.com

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Far kfi: Ruth (Holtman) Lehman: Born in
Lodz, Poland; survived Auschwitz, Bergen-
Belsen camps.

Left: Nettie (Zycer) Adelsberg-• Born in
Krasnystaw, Poland; survived Maidanek,
Birkenau-Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps.

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