Hillel Bestows Honors
est Yourself •••
Below is a sample quiz from the Life Unworthy of Life curriculum:
True or False: .
1. Hitler had a good relationship
with his father.
2. President Hindenburg admired
Hitler's intelligence and sophistica-
tion.
3. Hitler successfully gained power in
1933 by leading a violent revolution.
4. Hitler tried to guarantee equal
rights for all Germans through a
:series of emergency decrees.
5. Hindenburg opposed Hitler's
emergency decrees.
6. Other countries supported Hitler's
policies in foreign affairs.
Multiple choice
7. Who resisted the treatment of the
Jews?
a. Corrie ten Boom
Holocaust Academy Is Sunday
Personnel from Selfridge Air
National Guard Base will present an
honor guard to open the annual
Holocaust Memorial Academy at 1
p.m. Sunday, April 18.
The event will be held at the new
Holocaust Memorial Center, 28123
Orchard Lake Rd., Farmington
Hills, and will commemorate Yom
HaShoah — Holocaust
Remembrance Day.
Candles will be kindled by
Holocaust survivors and their fami-
lies in memory of the six million
Jews who perished in the Holocaust
and in memory of Israel's victims of
terrorism.
Sponsored jointly by the
b. The Einzatzgruppen
c. Lord Moyne
d. Adolf Eichmann
e. all of the above.
8. When the Germans conquered
Poland,
a. They immediately established
death camps
b. Jews were relieved because they felt
safer with Germans than with Poles.
c. Most Jews left their homes and
moved east.
d. Ghettos were established to con-
centrate Jews.
e. Both a and d.
9. At the first of the Nurenberg trials
in 1946,
a. Anti-Jewish acts were not consid-
ered if they occurred before or during
World War II in Germany.
b. The killing of Jews because they
were Jews was not listed as a crime.
c. 21 German leaders were tried.
Holocaust Memorial Center and
Shaarit Haplaytah survivors' organi-
zation, the event is held in coopera-
tion with the Jewish Community
Council, CHAIM (Children of
Holocaust Survivors Association in
Michigan), the Federation of Jewish
Child Survivors of the Holocaust,
and B'nai B'rith Great Lakes
Region.
Saul Waldman, the HMC's devel-
opment chairman,. and Alan
Zekelman, HMC president, will
chair the event. Other participants:
Abraham Weberman, president of
Shaarit Haplaytah; Cantor Chaim
Najman of Congregation Shaarey
Zedek, accompanied on the piano
by Cantor Sholom Kalib; Shari
Kaufman Ferber; and students from
Hillel Day School of Metropolitan
Detroit's annual dinner and silent auc-
tion will be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday,
June 3, at Adat Shalom Synagogue.
The cost is $180. The annual patron
party will be held Tuesday, May 18; the
minimum gift is $1,000, which includes
two tickets to the dinner.
Hillel will honor Trudy and Arthur
Weiss with its 2004 Dream Maker
Award. They are longtime supporters of
Hillel, the Jewish
community and the
d. The judges came from each of the
State of Israel.
four Allied countries.
Mrs. Weiss served
e. All of the above.
as the new parent
recruitment chair
10. Almost all of the docto.rs who
and has stepped in
participated in the Holocaust,
many times as a sub-
a. Were not real medical doctors.
stitute teacher at
b. Viewed Jews as scientific objects.
Hillel. She is a past
c. Were insane.
president of the
Arlene Tilchin
d. Had been involved in the
Adat Shalom
"Euthanasia Program."
Synagogue
Sisterhood,
e. b and d.
and a life
member of
11.When the Allies first received
0 RT,
news about the murder of Jews,
National
a. The four Allied governments
Council of
immediately warned the German
Jewish
government to stop killing Jews.
Women,
b. American officials kept the news
Hadassah and Trudy and Arthur Weiss
secret from the American people.
Sinai Guild.
c. The British immediately bombed
Mr. Weiss is an attorney at Jaffe, Raitt,
the railroads at Auschwitz.
Heuer & Weiss. He is an officer and
d. The Soviet Union condemned
board member of the Detroit Symphony
Hitler for his anti-Jewish actions.
Orchestra, executive committee member
e. All of the above.
of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit, and past president and current
board member of University of
Michigan Hillel.
Hillel will also honor Arlene Tilchin
with its 2004 Rabbi Jacob Segal Award.
In 1966, she was the president of Hillel's
the Jewish Academy of Metropolitan PTO. She served as president of the
Detroit.
Hillel Day School Board of Directors
Others are: Dr. Steven D. Grant,
from 1976-1978. At Adat Shalom, she
past president of the HMC; Erna
was chairman of the youth commission,
Gorman, the Hidden Children; Dr.
vice president of sisterhood and a syna-
Charles Silow, president of CHAIM; gogue board member. Jewish Home and
Ann Zousmer, president of the
Aging Services honored her for her work
Jewish Community Council; B'nai
as a volunteer with the Guardianship
B'rith Great Lake's Region.
Program.
Rabbi Charles H. Rosenzveig,
Tammy and Bruce Gorosh and Lillian
founder and executive vice-president and Mark Schostak are the annual din-
of the HMC, will deliver the •
ner chairs. Elaine Darmon, Karen Levin
memorial address.
and Michelle Jacobson are silent auction
chairs. Steve Schlafer serves as the fund-
raising chair and Ricky Blumenstein as
associate fund-raising chair.
Lansing Memorial Is Tuesday
For reservations or information, call
Holocaust commemoration will be
Hillel Day School's development office,
held at the State Capitol rotunda in
(248) 851-6950.
Lansing at noon Tuesday, April 20.
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