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the Holocaust Memorial Center-in
Farmington Hills.
A companion exhibit,"Inspired
by Jewish Culture features a selec-
tion of art projects by students at
the Malczewski School of Fine Arts
in Poland, where memorabilia from
the historic display served as creative
motivation.
"The [Czestochowa] exhibit presents
the entire history of the Jews in that
area, a microcosm of the history of
Jews in Poland:' explains Rolat, who
has arranged for the photographs,
documents, books and mementoes to
be shown at various venues in Poland
and the United States.
"The writers of the history books
in Poland do not teach about the
Holocaust, so this exhibit tells Polish
citizens about an important compo-
nent of their history, a component
about which they know practically
nothing. It's almost tragic that Jews
have contributed so much to the histo-
ry of Poland and yet the young people
. know virtually nothing about it"

Survivor Testimony

Rolat, who left Czestochowa as a
youngster forced into slave labor and
losing his immediate family in the
Holocaust, was brought to the . United
States by the U.S. Committee for
European Children. He settled into
Cincinnati with the help of the Jewish
Family Service Bureau.
After receiving a scholarship to the
University of Cincinnati and earn-
ing a master's degree in international
relations at New York University, Rolat
established a shipping business and
then entered the fields of finance and
real estate, investing in both America
and Poland. With the success of
his Oxford International Corp. and
Rockford Funding Corp., Rolat moved
into philanthropy.
Rolat and his cousin, Alan
Silberstein, are at the Center of the
exhibit they planned to teach people
about what happened in the once-open
city of Czestochowa, which now has a

Jewish population of fewer than 100.
Rolat also is treasurer of a network
building a V ■ Tarsaw museum to chron-
icle the history of Polish Jews, and has
escorted his own children and grand -
children to the land of his birth.
"The Jews were the commercial
and cultural engine of Poland," Rolat
explains. "In Czestochowa before the
war, we were one-third of the popula-
tion. We not only built the first textile
factories, first big paper company and
the electrical works, but we also built
the first theater and concert hall. Jews
from Poland helped build the State of
Israel.
"I think that young Jews and young
Polish citizens must know this, and the
memory must live. That is why I am
so interested in this exhibition, which
will be part of the museum coming to
Warsaw later this year."
Rolat, who wants to communicate
the history of PolishJews before and
after the Holocaust, also wants people
to know that Jews were not passive as
their lives were being torn apart by
the Nazis. A film that accompanies
the exhibit describes efforts to rise up
together and fight back.

Local Survivors
Two Czestochowa survivors, Dr. Harry
Jubas and Joseph Birnholtz, settled in
Detroit and have become very enthusi-
astic about Rolat's project. Jubas, now
retired, was a teacher for more than 35
years at Oak Park High School as well
as a Hebrew-school teacher. He serves
as a docent at the Holocaust Memorial
Center. Birnholtz, retired in Florida
after being a cantor at Congregation
Beth Ahm and its predecessor, Beth
Aaron, has encouraged family travel to
the city of his birth.
Jubas, who labored in a munitions
factory, believes the director of that
workplace helped save his life by mak-
ing living conditions tolerable. He
was brought to Detroit by the Joint
Distribution Committee and looked

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