EXHIBIT OPENING PROGRAM FOR

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Anne Frank: A History for Today

ON EXHIBIT JANUARY 20 – JUNE 4

of blessed memory

Thursday, January 19

A Girl Who
Never Was

She Excelled At Living

Featuring Dr. Rolf Wolfswinkel

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as Anne Frank a
typical Holocaust
victim? Should her diary
be used to introduce
people to the Holocaust?
Dr. Wolfswinkel, NYU Professor of
Modern History, will answer these
questions and more. He is a noted
scholar in the areas of World War II,
Anne Frank and the Holocaust. He
is on the board of The Anne Frank
Center for Mutual Respect.

Q Dessert reception to follow presentation
Q $10 admission, free to members
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or RSVP@holocaustcenter.org

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January 12 • 2017

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inda Tilchin, 64, of
Huntington Woods, died
Jan. 7, 2017.
Minda worked for the Royal Oak
School System from 1990 until her
retirement in 2010, serving as the
preschool coordinator for special
education from 1994
onward. When par-
ents of children with
special needs came to
the Royal Oak Schools,
they had an effec-
tive and unstoppable
advocate in Minda.
After leaving the
Royal Oak Schools,
she served as a
clinical social worker
for Counseling
Minda Tilchin
Associates of West
Bloomfield. She had
worked previously
for Jewish Family Service and
Counseling Associates, and also as
an elementary school teacher in
the Clarkston Community School
District.
Minda was a graduate of the
West Bloomfield Schools, the
University of Michigan and the
Wayne State School of Social Work,
where she earned her M.S.W.
degree. She was a licensed master
social worker and a member of
the Academy of Certified Social
Workers. She excelled in many
areas and was a champion speller,
winning school and district spelling
bee competitions while in elemen-
tary school.
Minda was a pioneer in creating
wilderness camping experiences
and teaching outdoor camping and
leadership skills to young women.
She served as the first female coun-
selor and then assistant director at
Camp Tamarack’s Agree Outpost
Camp and led teens on backcoun-
try trips to the mountain ranges of
the American West.
She loved the outdoors and that
remained an essential part of her
life; she spent as much time as she
could at her rustic cabin in North
Ontario. She was an accomplished
handywoman, comfortable with
a wrench, drill, saw or hammer
in her hand and eager to take on
home repair projects. She also
loved cooking, especially baking,
and she excelled at it. She loved
teaching her children, nieces,

nephews and young cousins how to
succeed in the kitchen. Preparing
delicious and beautiful meals for
her large extended family for sim-
chot and other life-cycle events was
her forte. Dinner for 150 was not
unheard of.
Mrs. Tilchin was a
lifelong member of
Congregation Beth
Shalom and was the
first bat mitzvah when
the new sanctuary
opened in 1965.
She was the devot-
ed daughter of the late
Jeannette Katz Tilchin
and Asher Norton
Tilchin; loving step-
daughter of Arlene
Tilchin; beloved moth-
er of Bethany (Schaer)
Higa and Justin
Higa of Portland, Ore., and Aaron
Schaer and Keren Thoms of Seattle,
Wash.; adoring grandmother of
Ethan Higa; loving and support-
ive sister of William Tilchin and
Carol Giliberto of Providence R.I.,
Michael Tilchin and Linda Greer of
Bethesda, Md., and Marcia Tilchin
and Scott Spitzer of Tustin, Calif.;
caring and committed stepsister of
Robert and Nancy Schostak, David
and Elise Schostak, Ricky and Dorit
Schostak, and Mark and Lillian
Schostak. She was very close to
her many tens of nieces, nephews,
cousins and all of their families,
and was in every respect at the
center of her extended family.
Minda and Alan Katz, her former
husband, maintained a profoundly
caring relationship.
Interment was at Machpelah
Cemetery. Contributions may be
made to Tamarack Camps, 6735
Telegraph Road, #380, Bloomfield
Hills, MI 48301, tamarackcamps.
com/donate; Detroit Public
Television, Riley Broadcast Center,
1 Clover Ct., Wixom, MI 48393,
www.dptv.org/home; Congregation
Beth Shalom, Jeannette Tilchin
Memorial Fund, 14601 Lincoln,
Oak Park, MI 48237,
congbethshalom.org; or Jewish
Collaborative of Orange County,
2200 San Joaquin Hills Road,
Newport Beach, CA 92660,
jewishcollaborativeoc.org.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman
Chapel. •