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chapter also sends funds for the Magen
David Adorn regional medical center in
Ashdod, named for Detroiters Manny and
Natalie Charach, and the national blood
fractionation center.

How does the chapter raise
the money?

"Once a year around the High Holidays,
we send out a letter. I don't believe in
noodging people a lot — isn't that terri-
ble? And I personally never ask anyone. If
I'd ask, and they said, `No,' I'd feel terrible.
So we send the one letter each year, and
we have a parlor meeting, and we have
our annual dinner." The chapter also
sends out tributes.

To what do you attribute your
success?

"We've never had any paid help. It's
always been volunteer. Once they get
involved, they don't drop out.
"I remember Nancy Adler in 1973, as a
little girl, helping to collect money at my
house. Now, she and Shery Stay and Jodi
Tobin are getting young people involved
through the synagogues and day schools,
trying to fund an ambulance."
"Susan Rothstein helps me with the
High Holiday mailing. Others help in dif-
ferent areas from time to time. I have
wonderful volunteers."

How many members do you
have?

"Whoever contributes once I consider a
member. We send out the High Holiday
letter to 3,600 people on our mailing list.
Probably 1,000 contribute yearly. I send a
(personal) letter back to every— I write
letters for even a $10 contribution. They
(national AR1VIDI) tell me I'm crazy"

Who makes the toy ambu-
lances you use at the dinner?

"I used to buy them and put the (chap-
ter and ARMDI) decals on myself. Now
Tonka does it for us in China. I have to
order 12 dozen at a time. They disappear
so fast from our tables at the dinner. They
have sirens and everything — the adults
don't seem to know that, but the children
do."

How did you and John meet?

"We met in New York City in 1954. He
was a cousin of a friend. We met in March
and married in August because he was
planning to go back to dental school (to

get U.S. credentials). He was a dentist in
Europe.
"He actually.wasn't able to go back to
school for another year. He worked in a
lab. I worked for Mizrachi (the religious
Zionist organization), and I admired the
lady volunteers."

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What is your Holocaust back-
ground?

John was in Russia with his family. His
mother took the family from Poland to
Russia (when the Germans invaded
Poland in 1939). I am from Hungary. I
was the only one of my family who was
sent to the camps who survived. I lost my
parents, two grandparents and two broth-
ers (two brothers, now deceased, were not
with the family and survived). I was at
Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen."

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"Robe:rt is a retinal specialist in
Gainesville (Fla.). He is always sending
me things. My daughter, Andrea
Rosenblum, is a pharmacist. She is not
working now, but is very involved with
charitable groups. She and her husband
have given us two wonderful grand-
daughters and a grandson. I take pride —
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a mess, it would take a year to clean it up.
"A few times, I wanted to retire, and
when John passed away ... Philip
Slomoviti told me they would have to hire
an executive director if I retired. And the
executive director would have to have a
secretary. My brother (the late Larry
Brenners) told me,`It's good for you and
it's good for them'
"I think it's good to be busy. I know
some people — they go to lunch every
day, they shop. I don't know about that."

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