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party; the mosaic honors Eden's grand-
mother and others who were killed in
the Holocaust. The mosaic, installed
in the main corridor of the HMC, was
inspired by a square created by Kirsten
Grosz for one of the Kindertransport
quilts. It depicts a synagogue window
broken during Kristallnacht, and a yel-
low star with the German word Jude
(Jew) written on it, like the ones Jews
were forced to wear by the Nazis.
For Rabbi Charles Rosenzveig, HMC
founder and CEO, bringing the quilts to
the HMC's Zekelman Family Campus
is like a dream. "I am not aware of any-
where else with a place designated for
a display on the children's transport:'
he said. "I always felt we should have an
exhibit about it.
"The Kindertransport is one of
the elements not really in the public
domain to the extent it should be. This
was such a tragedy, that the only way to
save these children, as young as 7 or 8,
was to send them away to a place where
they knew nobody and for most of
them to never see their parents again. It
defies the imagination!"
Rabbi Rosenzveig said the hope is to
eventually install the quilts in a chil-
dren's wing, being planned at the HMC.
Beyond The Fabric
The quilts already are at the HMC.
Plans by a committee that includes
Tammy Gorosh of West Bloomfield,
Anne Klisman of Farmington Hills
and Rissa Winkelman of Bingham
Farms are taking shape. "They will be
framed and installed in the Institute
of the Righteous (inside the HMC), as
they tell the story of the righteous who
saved the children:' Kaplan said.
A plaque will read: "The
Kindertransport Memory Quilts have
been loaned on a permanent basis to
the HMC by Kirsten Grosz and her
family in memory of Hanus Grosz, the
`kinder' and their brave parents!'
Donations from individuals
in the community and from the
Kindertransport Association of North
America in Hicksville, N.Y., have cov-
ered the cost of the framing and instal-
lation of the quilts as well as creating
an audio exhibit to accompany the
quilts once they are hung.
"Each quilt will have an interactive
kiosk with 20 buttons — each button
with an image of the individual quilt
square Kaplan said. "The viewer will
press a button and the story of that
child will be heard on the headphones!'
The voices on the audio will be those
of West Bloomfield-based Jewish
Ensemble Theatre actors who will tell
each child's story of survival in first
person, based on a reworking of the
essays in the Kindertransport Memory
Quilt book.
"The viewer will be listening to the
audio as if it were the child speaking,"
Kaplan said. "It will be very moving!'
To reach as many individuals as
possible, a Web site will be created for
viewing a virtual online exhibit.
The Grosz' book will be reprinted as
a learning tool. "We have approached
both public and private schools about
the story of the Kindertransport, and
hopefully the books will be used in
their curriculums;' Kaplan said. To
start, 1,000-2,000 books will be printed,
depending on funds and requests.
The hope is to secure further contri-
butions to develop children's program-
ming in relation to the quilts. "It would
be wonderful to be able to expose this
to many children," Kaplan said.
Like Silber, Kaplan spreads the word
about the Kindertransport and the
quilts, even using half of her allotted
time on a Shaarey Zedek-produced
cable TV show about her artwork, to
talk about them.
Amazed at how the people of
England worked to save the children
of the Kindertransport, Kaplan said,
"Aside from everything else is the mag-
nitude of the cost. Today it would come
to $20 million. This was the largest
humanitarian effort in the history of
the war!" Kaplan hopes the history les-
son will inspire others in today's world.
"It makes me think about what
we can do in Darfur and in other
places where people need to be saved,"
she said. "When I think about the
line [from the Talmud] that says,
`To save one life is to save the world;
I think about the impact of the
Kindertransport that saved 10,000
lives!' El
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