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Elizabeth Applebaum
AppleTree Editor
Name: Susie Goldenberg
1 Children: Hannah Farkas, 11, Max Farkas,
9, Vanessa Farkas, 5
I School: The children attend Hillel Day School
of Metropolitan Detroit. Hannah is in sixth
grade, Max is in fourth grade and Vanessa is
in kindergarten.
1 Residence: West Bloomfield
Congregation: Adat Shalom Synagogue
A Little Background: Susie, who is
I divorced, was born in Detroit.
She graduated from Southfield High School,
then attended the University of Michigan, the
Detroit College of Law and the law school at
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Susie Goldenberg and children: Living a Jewish life is "part of our heritage.'
Washington University in St. Louis. Today, she is
a tax attorney and concentrates
thc., -area of
estate planning with the firm of tee, Gregory
and Sternberg, PC, in Birmingham.
Susie, 46, said she always wanted to be a
l awyer. "I knew I could never be a doctor
because I would pass out from the sight of
blood. i still can't look when I gei a shot. I don't
I know how I gave birth."
The Foundation: Susie's parents are Etka
Goldenberg and the late Herman Goldenberg.
Both were born in Poland, and both survived
the Holocaust.
Herman was the only one his family who
lived, while Etka was one of only a handful in
her family (including her mother and two broth-
ers) who survived. The iwo met after the war
and quickly searched for a new home.
"They didn't want to stay on European soil,"
Susie says. "They felt it was covered in Jewish
blood."
Herman and Etka lived for a time in France
and visited extensively in Israel before coming
to the United States, settling in Detroit to be
near Etka's mother and brothers, who had
come to Windsor, Ont., after the war, as well
as her great-uncle, who had settled here in
1910.
Susie believes her father always longed to
return to Israel. "He really wanted to live there,"
she says, "but my mother didn't want to be that
far from her family."
Herman Goldenberg was a shipping and
receiving clerk who "worked day and night,"
Susie says. He didn't complain; instead, he rel-
ished being able to provide for his children,
especially when it came to their schooling.
After their experiences in the Holocaust, her
parents knew that "Hitler could never take their