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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 Building Bridges in page 42