SUNDAY, APRIL 22

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THE JOURNEY
THAT SAVED

THE TRUE WARTIME ESCAPE
OF MARGRET & H.A. REY

featuring

Louise Borden

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njoy a presentation by Louise Borden, author of The Journey
that Saved Curious George, about the Jewish couple who
created the beloved children’s character and their escape from the
Nazis. Get a first look at our new exhibit The True Wartime Escape of Margret and
H.A. Rey, based on the book.

QAdmission is free with membership
Q Two seatings, at 12:30 and 3:30 PM , each followed by
a kosher dessert reception
Q Space is limited. RSVP required by April 17 to 248.536.9605
or rsvp@holocaustcenter.org
QThe program and exhibit are for ages 12+

)0-0$"645.&.03*"-$&/5&3tZEKELMAN FAMILY CAMPUS

28123 Orchard Lake Rd. t Farmington Hills, MI 48334 www.holocaustcenter.org

Understanding Bipolar Disorder

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 • 7-9 PM

Congregation Shaarey Zedek • 27375 Bell Rd, Southfield, MI

This free event is open to the public,
but pre-registration is required here: michmed.org/EDr7O

Join experts to learn more about the latest research
on the causes and treatments for bipolar disorder.

A presentation by the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program
at the University of Michigan, in collaboration with Kadima,
and a panel of experts to answer audience questions.

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or guard, who must watch the body until the time of
burial. (Today, funeral homes supervise preparations
and care of the body until burial, so there is no need for
a shomer at the chapel.) To access the room, you must
walk up a narrow set of stairs. Open the wooden door
and you arrive at an area, small and tidy, with a floor
made of thin, wooden slats. Two
antique chairs, with red fabric
A number of events are being planned
on the seats and backs, and
in celebration of the cemetery’s 100th
ornate carvings in the arm rests
anniversary, beginning Saturday, April 7,
and legs, are still here.
when Congregation Shaarey Zedek will hold
Downstairs again and to the
a commemorative service at 9 a.m., followed
right of the podium is an older
by a special Yizkor service at 11 a.m. The
office, complete with a desk that
has a spot just for a typewriter.
public is invited. Additional programs will
On the wall is a picture of what
include a history walk, a remembrance day
appears to be a long stretch of
to be held in the fall and a video that tells the
swamp, later developed into the
history of Clover Hill Park Cemetery.
cemetery’s charming pond.
On the left facing the podium
is another door, this one leading
to the basement. Watch your
step as you go down, then pause
at a room where the floor shows
tiny white tiles popular in the
early 20th century. Notice a win-
dow on your left; this is where,
so many years ago, each body
was brought into the building,
gently carried and taken into
the room at right. In this next
room, you’ll see a long table and
a sink, two opaque windows
and a concrete floor. This is
where tahara, preparation of the
body, took place.
Continue down the hall to a large room that has
TOP: The exterior of
served various purposes, from housing caskets to being
the Davidson/Hermelin
a lunchroom in the 1930s to a place for storage. The
Chapel.
original door of the chapel is here, as is the first table,
ABOVE: The old tahara
room in the basement made of marble, used for tahara.
“We’re very much preservationists,” Zuckman says.
of the chapel, where
preparation of the body He is careful about showing respect for everything
took place. Now this here, being a “keeper of history,” making certain all is
happens in funeral in order. “I have such affection for the cemetery that I
homes. want to make sure everything is done properly.”
Outside, the geese fly by, their sharp cries the only
thing to break the deep stillness of this basement.