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…2018 Community Photo Album JAY DREIFUS Enjoy these photos of happy events from the Detroit Jewish community. The wedding of Aryeh and Aliza Bracha Klein, Dec. 17, 2017, at Burton Manor in Livonia LIEBERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY The bar mitzvah of Seth Goldstein May 6, 2017, at Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills Allison August and Andre Lofrano at Franklin Hills Country Club on Aug. 26, 2017 C44 celebrate! • 2018 jn Noah Yaker’s bar mit...…
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…jews d in the continued from page 10 Auschwitz, where, during the infamous selection, his mother, 24, was sent into forced hard labor and his grandmother, 55, was sent to the gas chamber. “My mother’s stories parallel that of other survi- vors,” Silow said. “My mother often discussed there was a great deal of anti-Semitism in Poland before the war. She said most Jews kept to themselves as much as possible. Many survivors talk about being bu...…
