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Every year, Dessa Stone of Lake
Orion and her husband, Jack
Kobliska, vacation at her family
home on the Greek island of Ikaria.
From their balcony, they have a
picturesque view of the island of
Samos in the Aegean Sea.
Last summer, the view some-
how felt tainted knowing that just
across the water, thousands of
war-weary refugees suffered.
“From our balcony, we saw para-
dise; but we knew that just over on
that island, people had escaped the
horrors of war and were sleeping out
in the open on pieces of cardboard,”
Stone said. “How could we enjoy this
place and not get involved helping
those refugees? To not do something
would be to ignore my own family’s
history and ignore our values as
human beings.”
Stone can relate to the plight
of the refugees personally. During
WWII, members of her extended
family boarded a leaky boat in
the middle of the night to escape
the Nazis who occupied Ikaria.
Ironically, their boat landed in Syria.
Last summer, Stone and her fam-
ily took action, spending time with
the refugees as volunteers and
learning about their many needs.
Now, with the help of the
Birmingham Temple, where Stone’s
daughter Amanda Rosman is a
board member, Stone raised $5,000
ABOVE: Jack Kobliska and Dessa Stone, at their
home in Greece, volunteered on Samos last
summer to help Syrian refugees.
through GoFundMe and secured
nonprofit status with Foundation
Beyond Belief, a humanist relief
organization, to encourage larger
donations to more easily transfer
funds to the island to purchase
school, medical and personal
hygiene supplies.
Rabbi Jeff Falick said his
Birmingham Temple congrega-
tion is happy to coordinate these
efforts.
“The United States played no
small role in destabilizing that
entire region,” Falick said. “Now
Syrian families are fleeing from
that horror. We know from our
Jewish experience that through-
out history Jews have been on the
run. My Humanistic Jewish values
dictate my actions and that means
reaching out to people as good
American citizens and neighbors.”
Stone’s next step is to bring a
multimedia exhibit to the area
by the end of the summer that
features Pulitzer-prize winning
photographs of the Samos refugees
plus recorded interviews of their
harrowing experiences. She hopes
the exhibit will “open up hearts
and then wallets” for relief.
“Philoxenia is a Greek expression
that means ‘welcome in the strang-
er,’” Stone said. “It is the same as
the Jewish value of remembering
the stranger at one’s gates.” •
Those interested in helping the Alasad family
can contact Doug Ross at (248) 705-9790
or doug42ross@gmail.com. (See a story on
a Wayne State University study of trauma on
Syrian refugees, page 67.)