Metro
Holocaust Memorial
Atutiei
!
We are very proud
of vou and all of
your accomplishments.
Best of luck at Michigan.
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Gfaisifs
AMANDA
PETERNIAN
We are so very proud of vou!
IliTe wish you the best of luck
at the
University of Michigan
next year.
Much love,
Mom, Dart, MK-, _Lori, and Jack
Russian survivors to describe
their Shoah experiences.
A
Holocaust memorial pro-
gram that will highlight
local Russian survivors will
be held at 5 p.m. Sunday, May 31, at
the Jewish Community Center in Oak
Park.
The program will feature the
survival stories of Luba Sherman,
Rava Danishevskaya, Haim and Eva
Rosental, all of Oak Park, and Sonja
Koyfman, Yaakov Sigal and Esfir
Lupyan (Kaplan), all of Southfield.
The event will be presented in
English and Russian. The Children
Making Tomorrow dance group will
bring memories of the shtetl alive by
recreating an old-time cheder (class-
room). Others will commemorate the
Holocaust in song, art and poetry. A
presentation also will be made about
the Holocaust and modern anti-
Semitism.
In the JCC hallway, an exhibition
will feature photos from the Holocaust
by a Russian World War II veteran as
well as other art.
Participants will have the opportu-
nity to help Yad Vashem in Jerusalem
collect additional names of those lost
in the Holocaust through its Shoah
Victims' Names Recovery Project. Yad
Vashem has collected 3 million of the
6 million victims. Of those listed in the
Hall of Names,1.5 million are from the
former Soviet Union. Another 1.5 mil-
lion names need to be recovered from
this population alone.
Those who can act as witnesses to
names they feel may be forgotten can
fill out the paper work at the event.
The event is open to the entire com-
munity. Organized by Ilya Bromberg,
Yad Vashem representative in Michigan
and a representative of the American
Forum of Russian Jewry, the program
is directed by Erik Fasyovsky.
For more information, call Bromberg
at (248) 251-2985.
Sneakerheads Unite!
Local teen organizes first-ever
Metro Detroit sneaker swap.
F
or most 16-year-olds, having
the hottest sneakers in school
is a priority until a new fad
consumes them, but Brandon Steuer
of West Bloomfield is not that type of
teenager. Steuer is doing more than
just collecting shoes; he's pulling the
sneakerhead" culture out of Detroit
to make itself known as it is in other
popular U.S. cities.
The Motown Sneaker Swap, the first
such local event, will be held from 1-5
p.m. Sunday, May 31, on the second
floor of Woody's Diner in Royal Oak.
Attendees can bring up to two 100
percent authentic pairs (issued by
manufacturers, not subsidiaries) to
swap with others. Cost is 55.
The swap celebrates sneaker culture,
a celebration of urban fashion that has
transcended its hip-hop origins and
bridges race and cultural boundaries.
The event brings together sneaker
collectors, or "sneakerheads," from all
around the area to buy, sell and trade
their exclusive kicks. The sneakers are
new or lightly used and collectible.
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Max Lowe
We are so proud of VO 11 and all of
your accomplishments.
Congatulations on your
gaduation from W. B. H. S.
_May your success continue at
Central Michigan University School of Music
Follow your passion:
"If you can drearn it, you can do it"
We lore von!
Mom, Dad, Aaron
Grandma June
Nana
and Jake
A18
May 28 • 2009
Brad Steuer
Sneaker swaps have been on the rise
in major cities around the country,
including Los Angeles, New York City
and Miami. Detroit is now becoming
its own outlet for this growing culture.
Steuer is an avid follower of fashion.
He created SneakerSwap.com as an
online destination for sneakerheads
to connect and share their love of this
urban trend. Steuer and his family
are members of Temple Israel in West
Bloomfield.
For more information, got to www.
SneakerSwap.com .