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…Different Directions Conflicting timetables and priorities prompt Holocaust Memorial Center's pending move to Farmington Hills. Above: Rabbi Rosenzveig with informal drawings of the planned new Holocaust Memorial Center. Right: Orchard Grove Community Church now leases the former theater site. 6/29 2001 14 …
…HARRY KIRSBAUM Staff Writer E veryone agrees it shouldn't have come to this. Yet, after 12 years of hoping to expand ar its present building next to the Jewish Community Center on the Euge!.e and Marcia Applebaum Campus in West Bloomfield, the Holocaust Memorial Center is moving forward with its backup plan to build a new museum at a site in Farmington Hills. The 8.5-acre parcel is in a commercial section of Orchard Lake Road between a rest...…
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