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» Making A Choice Highlights from the IN's
conversations with Gov. Rick Snyder and Democratic
opponent Mark Schauer. See page 14.

» Fun In The Sukkah A roundup of Sukkot
celebrations at area synagogues around town.
See page 30.

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» Get Ready! Motown: The Musical heads home to
Detroit — and there's sure to be dancing in the streets.
See page 51.

Chabad of Greater Downtown Detroit's new
sukkah was donated by Levi Bieda and
family and painted by Emor and Sintex.

» cover story

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Special educator Maiseloff truly
opens doors for students.

Vivian Henoch I Special to the Jewish News

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passionate and compassionate educator, Ellen
Maiseloff likes solving puzzles. Even as a stu-
dent teacher, she chose the path that would
challenge her beyond the standard curriculum — to
work with children with learning disabilities.
"Every child has a unique ability to learn and the
potential for success:'
s.
Maiseloff says. "I like
to think of the learning
process as the opportu-
nity to unlock barriers to
learning and empower
students. I love finding
the way to reach stu-
dents and learning from
them what could be, that
special charm, that unex-
pected strategy or the
key to opening the doors
for them:'
With a career in spe-
cial education spanning
Ellen Maiseloff
nearly four decades,
Maiseloff has helped
thousands of children
succeed in secular and Jewish schools throughout the
community and beyond. Now at the top of her game as
director of Federation's Opening the Doors (OTD) pro-
gram since 2007, she supervises a staff of 46 special edu-
cators, paraeducators, classroom assistants and profes-
sionals serving nearly 1,100 children a year in 26 Jewish
day and congregational schools in Metro Detroit.

A Holocaust survivor and
American soldier share their
disparate yet remarkably
similar stories.

Lynne Konstantin I Contributing Writer

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ourteen-year-old
Labor Day weekend:
Perry Shulman was
Perry Shulman,
lying immobilized
center, and his wife,
on April 11, 1945. He had
Passie, far right, were
contracted frostbite on his
reunited with Leon
feet during the Death March Bass, second from
from Auschwitz-Birkenau to right, in a meeting
Buchenwald, and a Russian
arranged by Shulman's
prisoner, claiming to be a
son, Greg, with help
butcher back home, chopped from Bass' daughter,
off his toes with a butcher
Delia, left of Shulman.
knife to prevent further
Bass' granddaughter,
infection. A young boy from Kendall, witnessed the
Holland, lying next to him,
extraordinary reunion.
had lost his entire foot.
Another prisoner came
running into the room yell-
ing, "I think we are free!"
Shulman hobbled to the window, where he saw
tanks approaching and soldiers running with rifles,
but it looked like chaos to him. The prisoners had
hope, but no one knew what was happening.
"I went back and lay down, and I told my Dutch
friend, 'I think we are free:" Shulman says. "The boy
looked at me and smiled, and then he died:'
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