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or 25 years, Dr. Steven Grant,
chairman of the Holocaust
Memorial Center board, has
dedicated himself to grow the HMC
and spread its message to "never for-
get" the horrors of the Holocaust.
He has no doubts that message will
be passed effectively to the next gener-
ation because he knows it will be car-
ried by his own sons, Adam and Josh.

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The two — Adam graduated law
school in 2005 and Josh is currently
in medical school — served as the
youngest co-chairmen of an HMC
dinner. They ran the program and
introduced their father, who received
HMC's 2006 Pillar Award at the event
Monday at Adat Shalom Synagogue
in Farmington Hills before a crowd of
about 800.
"The logo of the Holocaust Memorial
Center is zachor, remember," Adam
said. "That is active remembering, not
passive. We will teach it to others and
future generations. My grandparents
and parents passed it to me, and'I hope
to pass it to [my children]."
Josh spoke of how the brothers spent
their entire lives watching the develop-
ment of the HMC, and of the influence
it has had on them.
"We will be involved adults:' Josh
said. "My generation will be unwaver-
ing in making certain the Holocaust
will not be forgotten."
They also acknowledged their
mother, Marci, and two grandmothers,
Diane Grant and Esther Steinway.
Dr. Steven Grant, president and CEO
of the United Physicians Group, hugged
his sons, and gave a brief speech about
what the HMC has meant to him. He
concluded with, "Go, Tigers:' The din-

ner occurred during the second game
of the World Series.
Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, HMC
founder and CEO, reminisced about
Dr. Grant's longtime involvement,
then introduced young people from
Berkley High School and Lawrence
Technological University who
are members of the HMC's new
International Peace Corps of the
Righteous. They will spread its mes-
sage of altruism to others throughout
Michigan.
The final speaker was Edwin Black,
Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of
Banking on Baghdad, IBM and the
Holocaust and his newest, Internal
Combustion, about the West's addic-
tion to oil.
Perhaps misjudging his audience,
which included many eager to catch
the Tigers' game, the normally engag-
ing Black lectured for an hour, first giv-
ing a history of transportation before
getting to his major points.
One was that Hitler needed oil to
take over Russia, so he cut a deal with
Arab Semites.
"Even a Hitler would work with peo-
ple he hated to destroy the Jews, and oil
was the nexus," Black explained.
Another point: We need to go back
to over a century ago, when all cars
were electric. He uncovered documents
that show Henry Ford and Thomas
Edison had secret plans to turn to
clean electric batteries to run cars.
They spent millions, Black said, to
develop and ship batteries from New
Jersey to Michigan, but the batteries
never worked once they left the lab
because of tampering along the way.
"Today, we will do anything to main-
tain our addiction to oil',' Black finally
told a dwindling audience. "It has
affected our climate, lungs, treasury,
destroyed the American way of life.
What's the price — the extermination
of Israel.
"Where did Iran and oil states get
the money to fund Hamas? Where do
insurgents in Lebanon get money?
From us. Our addiction is fueling this
... all who drive help this cause."
Yet he feels we can get off our oil
addiction and points to electric- and
hydrogen-powered vehicles as one
path.