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Holocaust Survivors Yiddish/
Jewish Video
John J. Mames Oral History
Collection
Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor
Oral History
Jewish Community Center - JPM Bldg.
15110 W.10 Mile Road
Oak Park, MI 48237
(248) 356-6668
Fax: (248) 356-6668
Contact Person: Dr. Charles Silow
Holocaust Memorial Center
6602 W. Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(248) 661-0840
Fax: (248) 661-4204
E-Mail: info@holocaustcenter.org
Website: http://holocaustcenter.org
University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, MI 48128
(313) 583-6300
Fax: (313) 593-5561
E-Mail: jwraight@umd.umich.edu
Website: holocaust.umd.umich.edu
Contact Person: Jamie Wraight
First Monday of the month at 12:45 p.m.
Fleischman Residence
6710 W. Maple Road
West Bloomfield, MI 48322
(248) 356-6668
Fax: (248) 356-6668
Contact Person: Dr. Charles Silow
Collection of 500+ Holocaust interviews in DVD
format. Many summaries on website. Computerized
index containing name of interviewee, place of birth,
ghetto, concentration camp, labor camp and hiding
place.
Last Sunday evening of the month at 7 p.m.
Survivors of the Shoah Visual
History
Holocust Survivors
Photo Archive Project
P.O. Box 3168
Los Angeles, CA 90078-3168
(800) 661-2092
(248) 356-6668
Fax: (248) 356-6668
Contact Person: Dr. Charles Silow
Current, ongoing project to photograph Holocaust
survivors of metropolitan Detroit for posterity. Photgraphs
to be exhibited at the Jewish Community Centers.
Founded and chaired by Steven Spielberg, the
foundation has collected more than 50,000 eyewitness
testimonies in 57 countries and 32 languages and is
committed to the broad and effective educational use
of the archive worldwide.
1953: First
patient
admitted
to Sinai
Hospital.
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1933: First Jewish
Community
Center opens at
Woodward and
Holbrook
1937: Jewish
Community
Council is
established.
The project has more than 150 interviews with
Holocaust survivors conducted by Professor Sidney
Bolkosky. As interviews are transcribed, the transcript
and accompanying audio portion are made available at
web site.
1969: Jewish
Association for
Residential
Care begins.
1982: Holocaust
Memorial Center
is started.
1999: Sinai
Hospital closes
merged by
DMC into
Sinai-Grace.
1987: Three
planeloads of Detroit
Jews attend
Washington rally to
free Soviet Jews.
1973:
Construction
begins on JCC in
West Bloomfield.
0 1979: Carl Levin
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1942:
"The Detroit
Jewish News"
goes to press.
1940s: Sponsorship
of Holocaust
survivors is offered.
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1958: Hillel
Day School
established.
is elected U.S.
senator.
1976: University
of Michigan
offers Jewish
studies program.
1988: Jewish
population
reaches
96,000.
2000: Jewish Academy
of Metropolitan Detroit,
an unaffiliated day high
school, opens to 49
ninth- and 10th-graders.