Remembering
The Victims
Holocaust Memorial Center
dinner focuses on keeping
memories alive.
The Weisbergs: Steven Weisberg, Madeline Weisberg, Lori Weisberg, Matthew Weisberg, honorees Alvin Weisberg
and Henrietta Weisberg, Steven Schlafer, Henrietta's sister Rachel Schwartz of California, Scott Schlafer, Julie
Schlafer and Bradley Schlafer. Henrietta and Rachel were the only family members to survive the Holocaust.
T
he 28th Anniversary Dinner for the
Holocaust Memorial Center featured
inspiring speaker Father Patrick Desbois, a
Catholic priest who has devoted his life to the monu-
mental task of uncovering mass gravesites in Eastern
Europe where Jews were killed during the Holocaust.
First in a moving video and then in person,
Desbois told of village after village where elderly citi-
zens finally opened up to him about mass murders
they had witnessed as children — children who often
were forced to help dig the killing trenches. Time
and again, these seniors led Desbois and his team to
gravesites of Jews.
HMC board member Gary Karp introduced
Desbois. He later told of a person who told him how
humbled he felt by a Catholic priest who was doing
so much — much more than most Jews — to honor
Holocaust victims who had been otherwise lost.
At the fundraiser, which attracted more than 900
people, Henrietta and Alvin Weisberg of Bloomfield
Hills were honored for their commitment and
dedication to the Holocaust center. On Nov. 20,
the Weisberg Gallery, housing a Nazi box car from
Germany, was dedicated at the center.
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Torah Fund Brunch
T
he Sisterhood of Adat Shalom
held a Torah Fund brunch in
late October at the home of Andi
and Larry Wolfe. Thirty women gathered
to enjoy a "Musical Morning" featuring
Hazzan Daniel Gross and Lauren Gross,
accompanied by Marty Liebman on the
piano. Music reverberated up to the "raf-
ters" of the Wolfe's spectacular home in
Bloomfield Hills.
Torah Fund chairpersons and event co-
chairs Harriet Dunsky and Shelly Perlman
reported that the significant funds raised
will help to strengthen and perpetuate the
New York-based Jewish Theological
Seminary Schechter Institute of Jewish
Studies and the Ziegler School of Rabbinic
Studies for the training of future rabbis,
cantors and educators.
Joyce B. Weingarten, international
vice president of Women's League for
Conservative Judaism, was presented with
Sisterhood's "Woman of Achievement"
award for her contributions to Sisterhood
and to Adat Shalom Synagogue in
Farmington Hills.
Other brunch committee members
included Beverly Yost, Cindy Babcock,
Adele Staller and Rena Tepman.
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Ronit Marom, Joel Jacob and Libby Sklar
Guest speaker Father Patrick Desbois with Holocaust
Memorial Center docents Gail Fisher, Karen Kahn, Lori
Weisberg and Joan Climie, all of West Bloomfield
r: 4CTA
Lori and Alan Zekelman of
Bloomfield Hills
Todd and Karen Sachse of
Huntington Woods
Charley Silow of Huntington
Woods with Barbara and Irvin
Kappy of Orchard Lake
Adat Shalom sisterhood raises funds to support JTS education.
Joyce Weingarten, Marty Liebman, Lauren Gross, Hazzan Daniel Gross, Harriet Dunsky, Rabbi Aaron Bergman and Shelly Perlman.
Event Co-Chairs Harriet Dunsky of
Bloomfield Hills and Shelly Perlman
of Farmington Hills welcome Rabbi
Bergman.
Joyce Weingarten of Bloomfield
Hills was presented the "Woman
of Achievement" award by Trudy
Weiss of Farmington Hills.
Andi Wolfe welcomes Janis Holcman of Farmington
Hills, Cindy Babcock of Royal Oak and Elaine
Serling of West Bloomfield.
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