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The month of Tishrei is the first month
of the Jewish New Year. It is the holiest
month of the year.
On the yom tov of Rosh Hashanah,
God writes in the Book of Life for the
coming year as we say in our prayers,
who should live, who should die ... who
by fire, who by water, who by hunger,
who by thirst, who by stoning, who by
strangling.
We, the Jewish people of Europe,
had a very bad verdict in the six years
between 1939 and 1945.
The Hamans and then the Pharaohs,
the anti-Semites, were the leaders who
killed Your people by fire, by water, by
hunger, by stoning and by strangling.
But what we didn't imagine here ... by
gas chambers, where they killed Jewish
people because they were Jewish. Then
they were taken to the crematoriums
where they were burned to ashes. They
burned our Beis Hamikdash (our Holy
Temple); they burned our Torahs.
After liberation, we found they mur-
dered 6 million Jews. One and a half
million children were murdered. All that
was left from European Jewish life was
ashes and cemeteries.
Europe is the continent that destroyed
Jewish tradition, and Europe is the con-
tinent that destroyed Jewish life. Every
inch of the European continent is cursed
because it is soaked with Jewish blood.
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Every silent barrack from hundreds of
concentration camps over Europe is cry-
ing out for the 6 million victims who
were murdered.
Seventy years after liberation, the
experience from the Holocaust still
hurts. It is like a cancer that never heals.
We can still hear their cries and feel
their pain.
As long as one of us survivors is alive,
we will remember, never forget, the
6 million kadoshim (holy ones) who
never had a funeral, never had a grave.
Nobody sat shivah and nobody said
Kaddish after them.
Soon will be Yom Kippur. We will pray
for forgiveness for the sins we commit-
ted, and we will remember our family
members who died.
We will remember the 6 million
kadoshim, and we will say Yizkor.
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T
he Maccabiah Games in Tel
Aviv were only four years
old when a young woman
was Michigan's only representative at
the games in September 1953: Minna
Weisenfeld. Indeed, not only the sole
member of the U.S. team from Detroit,
she was the first member ever from
the city. And this was four years before
the first male members from Michigan
attended the games!
A recent high school graduate at that
time, and about to start classes at the
University of Michigan, Weisenfeld
(later Mrs. Minna Kling) was a mem-
ber of the prominent swimming teams
from the Jewish Community Center as
well as Central High. Her specialty was
the backstroke, for which she held two
state records at the time. Weisenfeld
had also earned 25 medals in meets
sponsored by the Amateur Athletic
Union, which was then the dominant
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Part of the girls squad: Minna Weisenfeld, Frances Taub, Judy Silverman, Beth
Rosenberg, Sarah Kolin, Lenore Weiss, Janet Wuntner and Coach Ratner.
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sional athletes.
Weisenfeld did well, taking second
place at the 1953 Maccabiah Games
in her favorite race, the backstroke.
Along the way, she broke a bit of new
ground for Jewish women in Detroit.
Minna is the swimmer on the left in
this 1950s photo from the Nov. 20,
1992, issue of the JN. ❑
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