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Brotherly Love Next generation at Habatat
Galleries keeps tradition, adds own style. See page 60.

Second-generation Habatat Gallery owners
Aaron Schey and Corey Hampson

next generation

A Twist
Of Fate

A

Holocaust survivor
marries ex-Hitler Youth
in amazing love story.

Harry Kirsbaum I Contributing Writer

S

everal typical lessons can be
gleaned from most Holocaust
survival books.
Seconds count.
Snap decisions
can save your life.
It takes more
than a will to live to
survive.
None of them
have a Romeo and
Juliet, guilt and for-
giveness twist like

The Long Journey to
Cleveland by Rudolf Rudolf Ruder
Ruder, whose father,
Simon, a Holocaust
survivor, lost his
first wife and two children when they were
gunned down in a train station trying to
flee transport to a death camp.
Simon survived to marry Marile, a
German Catholic nearly half Simon's age,
and a former Hitler Youth member whose
father was a train engineer employed by
the Nazis.

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Learning From
Israeli Success

Detroit entrepreneurs
seek to emulate Israel's
"Startup Nation."

ADAM FINKEL

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1942 - 2015

Covering and
Connecting
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Members of the Entrepreneur
Mission visit with students at
an international boarding school
started by an Israeli entrepreneur.

wenty Detroit entrepreneurs
sat around the conference
table of one of Israel's most
noted venture funds, Jerusalem

Venture Partners.
It was the 78th hour of the Jewish
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit's
inaugural Entrepreneur Mission to Israel.
Local restaurant mogul Zach Sklar asked
the question of the week: How has Israel's
economy thrived despite such enormous
adversity?
Without delay, Golani Brigade
commander-turned-investor Yonatan
Machado spoke up.
"The Jewish people, and Israel, have
been forced to solve problems ... as
a matter of survival," he said. "Being
entrepreneurial has been a necessity
because of thousands of years of
persecution."

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