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Mark your calendars for April 7-14 as
Bookstock returns to Livonia’
s Laurel
Park Place where bargains abound on
used books and media. Proceeds from
the sale benefit literacy and educa-
tion projects throughout Detroit and
Oakland, Wayne, Benzie, Washtenaw
and Grand Traverse counties.
JVS Human Services serves as the
institutional home of Bookstock.
Detroit News columnist Neal Rubin
is Honorary Chairperson, and Alycia
Meriweather, deputy superintendent
of Detroit Public Schools Community
District, is Bookstock’
s Honorary
Chancellor. The presenting sponsor is
the Mike Morse Law Firm.
Bookstock’
s pre-sale will kick-off
on Sunday, April 7, at 8:15 a.m. There
is a $20 admission charge for the
pre-sale only, which runs through 11
a.m. Hours for the sale are Sundays
11 a.m.-6 p.m. and Monday through
Saturday 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. New stock is
added to the floor daily.
Special events include “Monday
Madness,” with spectacular giveaways,
Teacher Appreciation days, a student
essay competition, “Cookstock” and
other special sales and drawings.
For more information about
Bookstook or a complete schedule,
call (248) 645-7840, ext. 365, or visit
bookstockmi.org. ■
Bookstock Is Back
Holocaust Film Foundation Launches
Assuring that the painful legacy of the
Holocaust and its survivors is never
forgotten, the Holocaust Education Film
Foundation (HEFF), a nonprofit organi-
zation, was recently launched.
Aimed at preserving the impactful
stories of Holocaust survivors through
film, an interactive online community
and educational programs, HEFF seeks
to educate people at a time when recent
polls show many millennials know little
about one of the most horrific chapters
in modern history.
HEFF’
s main objective will be to
produce full-length documentaries
with Holocaust survivors from around
the world, sharing their impactful and
astounding stories through the medium
of film.
The first documentary, released in
2018, was To Auschwitz & Back: The
Joe Engel Story, a riveting recounting
of faith, renewal, inner strength and
redemption following the story of Engel,
91, who was taken by the Nazis at age
14 and never saw his family again. From
his experiences in the Warsaw Ghetto
and the notorious concentration camps
Auschwitz and Birkenau to his incredi-
ble escape from a death train at 17, The
Joe Engel Story vividly brings to life one
man’
s journey to hell and back.
This May, HEFF will release Surviving
Birkenau: The Dr. Susan Spatz Story.
Born in Vienna in 1922, Spatz was an
only child who lived a life of privilege
until the Nazis invaded Austria, and
she and her mother found themselves
deported to Theresienstadt. Ultimately,
they were separated, and Susan was
interned at the notorious Birkenau death
camp, where she survived an astonishing
two years before a long and brutal death
march led her instead to liberation.
“
At a time when anti-Semitism is on
the rise around the world, we’
re looking
to both educate and inspire,
” says Small,
also the filmmaker behind the Joe Engel
and Susan Spatz stories.
Additional full-length survivor docu-
mentaries to follow in 2019 include From
the Holocaust to Hollywood: The Robert
Clary Story, the real-life story of the
Hogan’
s Heroes star who was liberated
from Buchenwald in 1945, and I Ride For
The Living: The Marcel Zielinski Story,
which follows the story of Zielinski, who
was liberated from Birkenau/Auschwitz
at 10 years old and now keeps mem-
ories alive through the Ride for the
Living, a 60-mile cycling event between
Auschwitz and the JCC Krakow where
the ride was created.
All HEFF documentaries will be
released worldwide through Dreamscape
Media. ■
Woll Garden
Welcome spring with a visit to Beth Ahm’
s Louis and Fay Woll Memorial
Bible Garden.
Located at 5075 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, on the campus of
Congregation Beth Ahm, the garden will soon be in full spring bloom, and
people of all faiths are welcome to visit for learning and reflection. The gar-
den is available for group tours as well as for informal individual visitation.
The garden is open in the summer, fall and spring, from sunrise to sunset.
There is no charge to visit the Woll Memorial Bible Garden, but donations
are welcome. For more information, visit wollbiblegarden.org. ■
Hadassah Greater Detroit’
s Nurses Council Program
The Hadassah Greater Detroit’
s Nurses Council will hold its spring CEU pro-
gram at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in the demonstration kitchen at Henry Ford
Hospital, 688 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield. The program is open to the pub-
lic.
The program “Death Café,” aims to increase awareness of death with a view
to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives. The speaker will be
Merilynne Rush, MS, RB, BSN, founder of Ann Arbor Death Café and end-of-
life doula educator.
Cost of the program is $10 for members/$15 for non-members. RSVP by April
9 to Bonnie Topper-Bricker, (248) 320-6288 or bonnie.topper@gmail.com, or
visit Hadassah.org/Detroit. ■
Urban Kibbutz Social Change
Ameinu, in cooperation with Dror
Israel, the largest urban kibbutz move-
ment in Israel, is launching a new
Israel program called Urban Kibbutz
Social Change. The first cohort of
the five-month program will begin in
September and is recognized by Masa
Israel Journey.
Participants will live communally
in Haifa, volunteer in a range of social
action settings alongside their Israeli
counterparts, study Hebrew and tour
around Israel.
Ameinu President Kenneth Bob said,
“The distancing of young American
Jews from Israel is well documented,
and this program addresses that issue
head on. By living and working side by
side with progressive Israelis who are
making a difference in their society,
young liberal American Jews will expe-
rience Israel with all its challenges and
complexities. This will help the partici-
pants develop their own connection to
Israel and the people.
”
Program and registration informa-
tion available at kibbutzprogramcenter.
net,or contact Miki Golod, national
program director, at (212) 366-1194 or
mail@kibbutzprogramcenter.org. ■
Holocaust Survivor Care
Jewish Family Service received a
grant from the Jewish Federations of
North America’
s Center for Advancing
Holocaust Survivor Care. When
combined with matching funds, this
award will enable $140,000 in addi-
tional funding to continue innovative
person-centered, trauma-informed
programming for Holocaust survi-
vors in partnership with Flint Jewish
Community Services, Jewish Senior
Life and Jewish Family Services of
Washtenaw County.
The focus of this innovative proj-
ect is on enhancing quality of life for
Holocaust survivors through technol-
ogy.
Jewish Family Service serves more
than 500 Holocaust survivors in Metro
Detroit per year. ■