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Above: Igor Kogan of the Kiev Association of Jewish Ghetto Survivors watches as a wreath is placed at the Babi Yar
monument. At right: Jeff Schlussel of Huntington Woods and Tanya Mazor-Posner, Partnership 2000 director from the
Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, listen as a Sunflower Jewish Center representative describes activities it offers
in the Kiev community. • Gili Schwartzman of Kibbutz Ginnegar in Israeli Central Galilee lights the first Chanukah
candle. • Eileen Freed of Ann Arbor, Gili Schwartzman and Juliya Skabovskaya, a student from Hillel of the former
Soviet Union, entertain Hesed Avot clients with Chanukah songs. • Shelly Katz of West Bloomfield lights Chanukah
candles with Nehama Donskaya of Vitsilkov, Ukraine. • Tanya Mazor-Posner enjoys a warm welcome from a Hesed
Avot client in Kiev. • Sam Amiel of the Joint Distribution Committee staff explains the various services and areas sur-
rounding Kiev served by Hesed Avot • Shelly Katz, Davida Dennen of Grand Rapids, Sari Cicurel of West Bloomfield
and Tanya Mazor-Posner share in the rich history of the Podol Synagogue, built in 1896 in Kiev.