Our Family of Docents
Docents provide highest-
quality service in a
supportive community.

"No one knows what
happened to six year
old Rolf Hess"

From the Director's Chair
Improving our institution
through innovation
and change.

Page 3

Page 3

Page 2

.\)sec'Em N HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER

0
6'11a 0")

\> — ' '00.r:B.14'

ZEKELMAN FAMILY CAMPUS

NEWSLETTER

Summer 2010

28123 Orchard Lake Road
Farmington Hills, MI 48334

248.553.2400 • Fax: 248.553.2433
info@holocaustcenter.org
www.holocaustcenter.org
www.facebook.com/HMCZFC
www twitter. co m/Holocaus tMI

26th Annual Dinner to Feature Silent Auction

We are pleased to announce
that on Sunday, October 10, the
Holocaust Memorial Center's 26th
Annual Dinner honoring Shaarit
Haplaytah, the surviving remnant
of the Holocaust, will be held at
Congregation Shaarey Zedek in
Southfield.
We are thrilled to announce some
exciting changes for this year's dinner.
For the first time ever, we are host-
ing a silent auction. This past month,
volunteers and staff have been busy
securing donated gift baskets, dinner

certificates, memorabilia, weekend
getaways, all-inclusive trips, and every-
thing in between. So bring your credit
cards, cash and checkbooks because
you will not want to miss the bidding!
A list of auction items can be found on
our website (www.holocaustcenter.org).
Auction bidding will begin at 5:30
p.m. and will close at 7 p.m.
This year we will have strolling din-
ner from 5:30 p.m. — 6:45 p.m., fol-
lowed by a program at 7:00 p.m. We
promise to have guests out by 9 p.m.!
Auction winners will be able to claim

their items until 10:00 p.m.
For the past 26 years, the Holocaust
Memorial Center has filled a unique
role in our community. Our survivor
speakers, volunteers, and docents work
tirelessly to engage visitors of all ages,
ethnicities and backgrounds. We in-
spire multiple generations, and have set
a moral compass for the future leaders
of our community. We work with other
educational and cultural institutions to
build bridges of understanding. Please
join us in delivering a message of toler-
ance, and a message of hope!

Guests enjoying the 25th Anniversary Dinner

Synagogues in Germany: A Virtual Reconstruction

Upcoming Events

August 29, 2010
Synagogues in Germany: a Virtual
Reconstruction opens. German synagogues
destroyed during the Kristallnacht pogrom of
November 9, 1938 appear in 3-D full-color
detailed digital reconstructions. This exciting
exhibit is open to the public through November
29, 2010.

last vestiges of remaining ruins."
The results are stunning. Survivors
marvel that not only has the structural
beauty of the synagogues been cap-
tured, but also the
nuances of color
and decor. When
the camera pans
the windows as if
"looking inside,"
the illusion of view-
ing the synagogue's
interior is created.
The exhibit
was secured by the
Darmstadt Synagogue
HMC through the
efforts of Executive Director Stephen
Goldman, who had heard of the ex-
hibit when it toured various museums
in Europe and Israel.
The exhibit's two chief curators
will appear for the opening on August
29. In accepting the invitation, they

September 19, 2010
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Jefferson Ret.
was a Tuskegee Airman, a prisoner-of-war, and a
liberator. He will join us at 7:00 pm to talk about
his experiences.

October 10, 2010
26th Annual Dinner at Congregation Shaarey

expressed their satisfaction that their
reconstruction will have found a home
and will be made available to other
US museums. "We dreamed of mak-
ing these edifices
known worldwide
as a testimonial to
the glory of an ar-
chitecture that once
existed — and as a
warning that mon-
uments decades in
the making can be
annihilated by the
evils and evildoers
of one night."

MAGE : TEC HNISCHE UNIVERSI TAT DAR MSTADT

Germany: A Virtual
Reconstruction,
featuring 25 syna-
gogues torched on
November 9, 1938,
will show their
Hannover Synagogue
exterior and interior
in minute detail via 3-D computer
reconstruction.
The opening in metro Detroit
marks the first display of this tech-
nological achievement in the United

States. It represents six years of
concentrated labor by a team of 30
architects and architectural students of
the Technical University of Darmstadt
in Hessia,
Germany, under
the guidance and
leadership of two
professors, Prof.
Manfred Koob
and Dr. Marc
Grellert. "It was
like collecting
the stones of a
mosaic," they
explained during a
meeting in Frankfurt. "Our team col-
lected every locatable piece of pictorial
evidence; we interviewed surviving
former members of the synagogues
and, where possible, we pored over the

IMAGE : T EC HN ISC HE UNIV ERS ITAT DARM STADT

During the three months from
August 29 to November 29, visitors
to the Holocaust Memorial Center
will be confronted by a unique exhibit
that projects the past
glory of German syn-
agoge architecture by
the miracle of tech-
nology. Synagogues in

If you or your family worshiped
in any of the featured synagogues:
Berlin, Cologne, Dortmund,
Dresden, Nuremberg, or Pauen,
please contact Rebecca Swindler at
248.553.2400 ext. 13.

Zedek in Southfield. Come join us for the
evening's festivities including a silent auction.

November 21, 2010
Guest presenter Brian Murphy addresses the legacy
of iconic German filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl
(1902 — 2003), whose work includes the 1934
Nazi propaganda film The Triumph of the Will.