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.