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Pulling a camouflage covering from the JWV Memorial Wall: Hans
Weinmann, Art Fishman, Harmon Tron, Stephen Goldman and Guy Stern.
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A New Resting Place
Jewish War Vets move Memorial Wall
to the Holocaust Memorial Center.
Alan Muskovitz I Contributing Writer
I
n what was a very modest and
humble ceremony befitting the
occasion, the Michigan Jewish
War Veterans (JWV) officially rededi-
cated their Memorial Wall at their
new home at the Holocaust Memorial
Center (HMC). And, there was no bet-
ter way to honor those who paid the
ultimate sacrifice during World War
II than to hold the event on Sunday of
Thanksgiving weekend.
The relocation of the wall was
necessitated by the upcoming plans to
renovate its previous home, the Jimmy
Prentis Morris Jewish Community
Center building in Oak Park.
The veterans had approached HMC
Executive Director Stephen Goldman
about moving the wall to the HMC
and, without a moment's hesitation,
Goldman was fully on board.
In his emotional remarks at the
ceremony, Goldman said of our ser-
vicemen: "When they got to the con-
centration camps, the Jews they liber-
ated knew only that here was 'Joe: the
American who answered the call, who
would never be able to get the smell of
death out of his nostrils nor forget the
sight that he beheld as he discovered
what the Nazis had done to his people
who, like him, were Jews."
Goldman also said we must not for-
get the sacrifices still "being made, even
as we speak, by brave men and women
who know ... that freedom is not free
To his point, the ceremony touched
the heart of a younger generation
of Jewish soldier who attended —
33-year-old Alan Kimmel, now retired
from the Army, who served in Kuwait
and Iraq. It was clear in my conversa-
tion with Alan that the wall represents
a place where legacies can be pre-
served and where future generations
can learn and never forget the sacri-
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fices that were made.
Individually framed photographs,
224 servicemen in
total, make up the
wall. Their portraits
are a haunting
reminder of just how
young these men
were when they were
asked to help save
the world and secure
Larry Berry,
our freedom. Of
JWV Michigan
their sacrifice, Larry
Department
Berry, JWV Michigan
Commander
Department
Commander, said,
"In a building dedicated to telling
the story of the attempt to annihilate
our people, it is most fitting that the
pictures of those who gave their lives
to end that dastardly effort be located
here
Prior to the dedication ceremony,
veterans Marc Manson, Art Fishman
and the HMC's Tim Zimmerman
placed the Ner Tamid (Eternal Light)
above the memorial wall.
The commemoration also included
a Jewish War Veterans Color Guard,
the singing of "Hatikvah" and the
national anthem led by Temple Shir
Shalom Cantor Penny Steyer and her
son, Matthew — and an invocation by
Rabbi Aaron Bergman and remarks
by JWV Chaplain Rabbi Herbert
Yoskowitz, both of Adat Shalom
Synagogue, and the reciting of the
Mourner's Kaddish.
After a camouflage netting was
removed to reveal the memorial wall,
the program concluded with the play-
ing of taps, followed by a moment
of silence. It was, to say the least, an
appropriate and meaningful way to
bring to a close a weekend dedicated
to giving thanks. *