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Yom HaShoah
Survivor/war hero is keynoter at
Holocaust center commemoration.
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T
he Holocaust Memorial
Center Zekelman Family
Campus in Farmington
Hills and co-sponsor Shaarit
Haplaytah will host the 2009 Yom
HaShoah commemoration at 1
p.m. Sunday, April 19. International
recognition takes place this year on
April 21.
The HMC event will feature a
keynote speech by Cpl. Tibor Rubin,
a Nazi concentration camp survivor
and winner of the Congressional
Medal of Honor. He will speak about
his liberation from Mauthausen by
American troops and his subsequent
fight for America as a U.S. soldier.
The April 19 event is held in coop-
eration with the World Federation
of Jewish Child Survivors of the
Holocaust, Children of Holocaust
Survivors Association In Michigan
and B'nai B'rith Great Lakes Region.
Yom HaShoah, Holocaust
Remembrance Day, commemorates
the 6 million Jews who perished
in the Holocaust. B'nai B'rith Great
Lakes Region will conduct the pro-
gram "Unto Every Person There Is A
Name." Volunteers from several area
organizations will read aloud the
names of Holocaust victims.
There will be a candlelight-
Mg ceremony by members of
Shaarit Haplaytah in memory of
the Holocaust victims and fallen
Israeli soldiers, musical selections
by Cantor Meir Finkelstein of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek
Oakland County and an original
reading by Shari Ferber Kaufman of
Orchard Lake.
Closing remarks will be offered
by Dr. Guy Stern, interim director of
the HMC, followed by the Kaddish
memorial prayer, led by Cantor
Finkelstein.
The event is free and open to the
public.
Warsaw Ghetto Event
The Workmen's Circle/Arbeter
Ring's 66th annual Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising Commemoration will be
held 7 p.m. Sunday, April 19, at the
Jewish Community Center in Oak
Park.
Presented in partnership with
the JCC and the Sholem Aleichem
Institute, the program honors Jewish
resistance to Nazi tyranny. Michigan
Workmen's Circle has memorialized
the uprising each year since its first
anniversary on April 19, 1944.
The 60,000 entrapped and starv-
ing Jews in the ghetto of Warsaw,
Poland, with little ammunition or
training, bravely held off the Nazis
for three weeks.
The ceremonial program will
feature readings, music and candle
lighting. Following the program, the
audience will be invited to add pre-
sentations of poetry, prose, photos,
drama, music — up to three min-
utes per presentation and subject to
approval.
There is no charge to attend; how-
ever, voluntary donations will be
accepted. For reservations or infor-
mation, contact Workmen's Circle,
(248) 432-5677 or micirclel@aol.
com .
❑
Yom HaShoah At Beth El
On Monday, April 20, Temple
Beth El members will mark Yom
HaShoah with a service of learning
and remembrance in Bloomfield
Township.
The 7 p.m. service in the temple's
chapel will include reflections
by Walter Stark, who, together
with his brother, was able to flee
Germany in 1938 and later to bring
their parents and sister to safety
in Detroit. The evening will feature
music by the temple's T'filah Teens
and student Rachel Bletstein on
piano as well as participation by
the temple's Monday night school
students.
Prior to April 20, temple families
will have received a postcard with
the name, age and place of origin
of a Holocaust victim. They are
asked to bring their cards to the
service, where each name will be
read aloud prior to the recitation of
the Mourner's Kaddish.