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Ida and Dr.
Myron Joyrich
SHELLI LIEBMAN DORFMAN
Staff Writer
survivor of the Holocaust,
Ida Joyrich was unable to
speak about her experiences
for more than 50 years.
Now the Franklin resident said she's
found spiritual relief in establishing a
program with her husband to train
educators to teach Holocaust history
to children.
The couple's $150,000 grant to
the Wayne State University College
of Education in Detroit has made
possible the Ida and Myron Joyrich
Endowment for Holocaust
Education. The grant provides fund-
ing for teacher training on the
Holocaust and associated issues.
Holocaust study is not required in
Michigan schools, though many dis-
tricts offer it.
Polish-born Ida Joyrich came to the
United States at age 15, after surviving
the Maidanek, Plaszow, Auschwitz and
Malchov concentration and death
camps. Only she, her mother and
three cousins survived from their fam-
ily of more than 200.
Dr. Myron Joyrich is a native
Detroiter, who attended WSU's medical
school. He is retired as a Sinai Hospital
staff radiologist and clinical assistant
professor at WSU's College of Medicine.
The -Holocaust education project at
WSU "developed from conversations
and discussions with our four children
about our desire to make a contribu-
tion that would be of historical bene-
fit," said Ida Joyrich, the owner of
Bead Works in Franklin.
She said the initial notion of the
program came from daughter Lynne
Joyrich, a professor of popular culture
at Brown University, whose teaching
includes Holocaust-related issues.
Siblings Richard Joyrich, a radiologist
at Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit;
Wendy Joyrich, a math and political
science teacher at Adams High School
in Rochester; and Nomi Joyrich, a
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school counselor in the Seattle school
system, "were equally enthusiastic
about the project," said their mother.
Disturbed by the "flow of revi-
sionist writings and commentaries
on the Web and in print [that repre-
sent] a growing assault on truth and
memories of the Holocaust," Ida
Joyrich hopes the teaching will make
a difference.
The program will be co-facilitated
by Sidney Bolkosky, history professor
and director of the University of
Michigan-Dearborn's Voice/Vision
Project, and Dr. Richard Gibson of
the WSU Teacher Education
Department. A Holocaust curriculum,
"Life Unworthy of Life," co-written
by Bolkosky and former teacher Betty
Rotberg Ellias, is used as the textbook
for the project.
Joanne Osmer, WSU's director of
development, said the first course in
February involved about 15 teachers.
"They gave up three Saturdays, from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the only criti-
cism of the program was that it was
not long enough," she said.
Otherwise, class evaluations had
only positive comments, among them:
"As one who knows very little about
the Holocaust, I found the survivor's
testimony a lesson in itself"
At the request of the participating
teachers, a follow-up session will be
held in May.
The Joyriches belong to
Congregation Shaarey Zedek, where
she is a past board member. They are
among the founders of the
Committee for Soviet Jewry and
members of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee and
Hadassah, where Ida Joyrich has
served as a vice president.
Their gift to WSU is very meaning-
ful to the Joyriches.
"The more we have learned of the
lack of Holocaust education in the
public schools," Dr. Joyrich said, "the
more satisfaction we get from being
able to help address this problem."
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