This Week
HARRY KIRS BAUM
Staff Writer
oems, prayers and the strains of a
lone violin filled the Holocaust
Memorial Center in West
Bloomfield as mourners honored
their ancestors slaughtered by Nazis in a south-
ern Belarus shtetl.
The memorial service coincides with Av 17
in 1941, when the German SS rounded up and
shot all the men of the David-Horodok shtetl.
The surviving women and children lived in a
ghetto for a year before being shot themselves,
two days before Rosh Hashanah.
They were buried in the same mass grave as
the men on the outskirts of town. In all, the
entire town of 6,000 Jews died.
Some 75 descendants of those who emigrated
from David-Horodok before the massacre
attended the fifth annual memorial service, said
Kathy Winston of Ann Arbor, a descendant. ❑
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Top to bottom:
Detroit Symphony violinist
Greg Staples performs in front
of the eternal flame at the
Holocaust Memorial Center.
Amie Friedman of Southfield
listens contemplatively at the
memorial service.
Edith Friedman, center,
of Southfield, Amie grandmother,
welcomes friends and family
of the ancestors of David-Horodok
to the memorial service. To Edith's
right is Amie. To Edith's left is
Roz Blanck of West Bloomfield.