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Available from Austin Macauley 
Publishers, Amazon, and Barnes and 
Noble, this book is about growing 
up in Detroit enduring family 
violence, poverty, and antisemitism. 
Despite these sad themes, the 
book is strongly positive. Its goal is 
to show, through lived experience, 
how a child can survive a very 
difficult childhood to become a 
productive and happy adult.

DEFIANCE

RESCUING THE SELF AFTER SOUL MURDER

Published by Austin Macauley Publishers

RESCUING THE SELF AFTER SOUL MURDER

In Defiance, witness how a Jewish child subjected to 
profound distress can evolve and rise as a Woman of Valor.

Janet 
Abramson

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www.hfldetroit.org • 248.723.8184

Hebrew Free Loan Detroit

6735 TELEGRAPH ROAD, SUITE 300 • BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN 48301

@HFLDetroit

Community donations help Hebrew Free Loan give 
interest-free loans to local Jews for a variety of personal, 
health, educational and small business needs.

STORY
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wo social meetings with friends brought Merle 
and Ron Schwartz to focus on Hebrew Free 
Loan as a place to establish a fund to honor the 
memory of Merle’s parents. Over drinks and 
again at a lunch, HFL came up in conversation. 
Merle and Ron looked into it further, and found an 
area of need that spoke to them. 
“My father was the head of OB/GYN at Sinai 
Hospital,” Merle said. “He trained many doctors 
in the city, was very pro women’s health, and did 
a great deal to advance surrogacy, infertility and 
in-vitro fertilization. My mother also worked at 
Sinai, and was active in prenatal care and diabetic 
education. They both would have loved to know 
that we established the Sandra and Alfred Sherman 
Family IVF/Fertility/Adoption Loan Fund at Hebrew Free 
Loan to help grow Jewish families. The cost of 
testing, treatments and adoption fees can some-
times be a barrier for many Jewish couples. 
“What a satisfying thing, knowing that we 
could offer help in a real and substantive way, 
make a difference in people’s lives, and give 
them the happiness of family, just as we’ve had,” 
Merle said.

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