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HMC Story Irksome

With great apprehension, I read your
article about the Holocaust Memorial
Center in Farmington Hills ("It's My
Life," Jan. 20, page 17).
It seems you are trying to sensa-
tionalize and compete with papers
like the Enquirer to reveal all the pri-
vate personal livelihood.
Are you trying to compete for a
Pulitzer Prize? Instead of reporting all
about what the museum is doing for
us and teaching the youth of
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cabinet, bringing untold resources
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HMC, our community and our
country. Do we really have a choice?
Karen Keidan Myerson

After reading your cover story "It's
My Life" (Jan. 20, page 17), I won-
der if the Holocaust Memorial
Center takes an active interest in
training teams of committed individ-
uals to "learn the trade" from Rabbi
Charles Rosenzveig as their mentor
in all aspects of operation and devel-
opment. Talented and committed
individuals can and need to be nur-
tured to fill the many roles at the
HMC through the decades.
The Holocaust Memorial Center
offers tours, exhibits and firsthand
stories from survivors who gently
educate, enlighten and touch every-
one who enters. Sidney Bolkosky and
Charles Silow as well as the survivors
who bravely retell their personal sto-
ries and the volunteers contribute
greatly to the HMC as well.
Our greatest investment is people;
those to be trained and those who are
accomplished in the necessary areas
of Jewish life, education, program
development, fund-raising, archiving,
etc., with the continuing opportunity
for innovative and resourceful people
to participate at open meetings.
I want this center to thrive and
flourish, but I worry about the phi-
losophy that adding more staff will
affect the budget. Internships would-
n't impact the HMC budget.
However, hiring administrative
staff, from a nationwide search, who
would be under the guidance of
Rabbi Rosenzveig and other affiliated
professionals, seems necessary and

Shoah Program Update

As director of the Program for
Holocaust Survivors and Families, I
am writing in regard to Lev
Paransky's article in the Jan. 13 issue
of the Jewish News ("The End Of
Auschwitz," page 24).
Mr. Paransky wrote a very interest-
ing and informative article about the
liberation of Auschwitz and the reac-
tion of local Auschwitz survivors to
their liberation. Our program was
mentioned in the article; however,
the accuracies and highlights need to
be more specific.
The Program for Holocaust
Survivors and Families conducts two
ongoing support groups located in
Oak Park and West Bloomfield. It
offers individual and family psy-
chotherapy, general counseling servic-
es, liaison with other social service
agencies on behalf of the Holocaust
survivor community, a Yiddish-
Jewish video series and a continual
educational exhibit "Portraits of
Honor: Michigan's Holocaust
Survivors."
Cafe Europa is a monthly program
of the Program for Holocaust
Survivors and Families of the Jewish
Home & Aging Services. Survivors
gather together at Cafe Europa to
enjoy live Jewish and Yiddish music,
refreshments and socialization with
other Holocaust survivors. At our last