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year, but there is no talk of charging an
entrance fee, said Rabbi Rosenzveig.
"There are so many school groups
coming, and so many schools cannot
eaders of the new Holocaust
afford it," he said. "To charge one and
Memorial Center building in
not the other would create an awkward
Farmington Hills have created a
situation."
Legion of the Righteous to raise money
Besides, he said. "The building sells
to create awareness to combat violence,
itself."
terror and genocide. At the official open-
Over the past 20 years, 1.7 million
ing on June 22, HMC leaders also
announced they have received $4 million school children from Michigan, Ohio,
toward $18 million in construction costs. Indiana, Illinois, Ontario and elsewhere
have toured the HMC, including the
Dr. Guy Stern, director of the
Jewish day schools.
International Institute of the Righteous
Admission is free at the U.S.
at the HMC, is responsible for recruiting
Holocaust Memorial Museum in
the legion. "Your participation in this
Legion of the Righteous will support our Washington, D.C. , and Yad Vashem in
Israel.
effort to define, identify, honor, dissemi-
The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of
nate and perpetuate altruism and right-
Tolerance in Los Angeles charges $10 per
eousness on a global scale," he said.
visit for adults, $8 for seniors
The legion seeks contri-
and $7 for students. Annual
butions of $180 as an
memberships are also
induction with subse-
offered.
quent annual member-
Alan Zekelman, HMC
ships to be $50 ($35 for
president, said that operating
full-time students and
expenses for the HMC are
seniors).
about $1.5 million a year,
Dr. Stern was among
covered through an annual
the speakers at a ribbon-
dinner and investments.
cutting ceremony official-
"At this point, we're OK,"
ly opening the multi-
Zekelman said, noting that
faceted museum. About
loans of that amount are
1,000 people took part in Rabbi Rosenzveig
unusual in similar
•nothing
the ceremony and tour.
institutions.
But he's putting
The lessons of the
the word out to the community at large.
Holocaust will be taught and the memo-
"Realize that you're subsidizing every per-
ry of the survivors will be preserved for
son who walks in the door. That should
many years to come in this building,"
be something that not just motivates a
said Dr. Stephen Grand, an HMC past
president, at the ribbon cutting. The new Holocaust survivor, but every single Jew
and every single potential person of con-
HMC replaces the former building next
science in the community."
to the Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield.
The new $18 million center has been
`World Class' Center
unofficially open to public school groups
Zekelman calls the center world class,
and private corporate tours since
and "orders of magnitude more impres-
February.
sive" than the old HMC, which opened
So far, the HMC has raised $8 million
in 1984. The new center, with striking
in pledges with $4 million received.
architecture, sits on eight acres on
Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, HMC
Orchard Lake Road, north of 12 Mile.
founder and executive director, said he
Zekelman said there are numerous
finds the $4 million in cash "very
low-cost ways to donate, but he also
encouraging."
spoke of those in the community "who
The new center can handle approxi-
mately 200,000 people on guided tours a have the wherewithal to wipe out the
HARRY KIRSBAUM
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