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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. ■

