Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The Farmington Hills museum offers free admission and parking for the day.
This Sunday, April 7, will mark the Metro Detroit Jewish community's annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration Day, punctuated by a special event at the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills. The event begins at noon and will include volunteers from both the Great Lakes Region B’nai B’rith and the Holocaust Memorial Center, who will read aloud of the names of some of the 6 million that died in the Holocaust. The formal program starts at 1 p.m. with the Posting of the Colors by members of the Jewish War Veterans, United States of America. An original Kaddish (Hebrew prayer) led by Holocaust Memorial Center Executive Director Stephen M. Goldman will follow, and the traditional candle lighting will be led by Holocaust…
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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
“I found it disturbing,” Metro Detroit resident David Schulman said. “It’s a form of hate speech.”
An iconic slogan used at Auschwitz and other concentration camps during the Holocaust has been put up in large red letters at the Packard Automotive Plant in Detroit. The German words “Arbeit Macht Frei” – “Work Will Make You Free” – could be seen this week on an overpass at the vacant, crumbling plant's entrance, according to the Detroit Free Press. It is unclear who put the slogan up, The Detroit News reports. Jewish prisoners entering the infamous Nazi concentration camp in Poland during World War II saw the slogan as they passed through a metal gate in which the words were wrought. _____________________ Of Interest: Special Event Marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day __________________ “I found it disturbing,” Huntington …
Monday, January 28, 2013
The Holocaust Memorial Center hosted a museum tour and program featuring survivor Fred Findling.
The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus hosted a special event Sunday to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. A special museum tour walked attendees through the nation's first freestanding museum dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust. Among the stops was The Henrietta and Alvin Weisberg Gallery, the Holocaust Memorial Center’s newest permanent gallery, which houses an authentic World War II-era boxcar. The exhibit was funded by the Weisbergs, Holocaust survivors that live in Bloomfield Hills. Visitors also visited the popular Time Line, a circular exhibit that tracks the history of the Jewish people against major events in world history over a period of 4,000 years, a news release stated. Additionally, the …
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Saturday, December 29, 2012
'Lives of the Great Patriotic War' remains on display through Jan. 27 at the Farmington Hills museum.
Learn the stories of Soviety Jewish soliders who served during World War II in a new exhibit on display at the Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in Farmington Hills. Open now through Jan. 27, 2013 “Lives of the Great Patriotic War" details the largely unknown chapter of Jewish history – the participation of 500,000 Soviet Jewish soldiers in the fight against the Nazis. According to an HMC press release, the exhibit is presented in cooperation with The Michigan Association of Russian Speaking Jewry in America. The soldiers' stories are told through wartime diary and letter excerpts, reproductions of archival photographs and documents and oral testimonies. The free standing exhibit details the overall story of Soviet Jewish participation in …
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Docents now begin tours of the museum, including the World War II boxcar exhibit, which is named for Bloomfield Hills residents Henrietta and Alvin Weisberg.
The dedication Tuesday night of a new World War II-era boxcar exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in Farmington Hills marked "a new chapter in the history of this institution," museum president Gary Karp said. The Henrietta and Alvin Weisberg Gallery houses the artifact in a setting that resembles the places where Jews gathered before boarding the cars that took them to concentration camps, where 6 million perished. Extended family and more than 150 friends and museum supporters joined the Weisbergs at the event. Of Interest: Holocaust Survivor Funds New Boxcar Exhibit in Farmington Hills Executive director Stephen Goldman said while other museums house World War II boxcars, the HMC's positioning of it as an embarcation point …
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Jewish Senior Life program includes voice-over narratives of each survivor’s personal story, plus links to maps, history, and other educational sites.
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
(Source: Your People) This fall, Portraits of Honor: Our Michigan Holocaust Survivors launches two new components to the exhibit of 400 Michigan survivors: an online, comprehensive, interactive exhibit (portraitsofhonor.org), and the Passports program for exhibit visitors to connect one-to-one with a survivor’s story and journey. The exhibit, under the direction of Dr. Charles Silow, is an interactive, electronic Holocaust educational exhibit of the Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families, a service of Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit. The online version includes voice-over narratives of each survivor’s personal story, plus links to maps, history, and other educational sites. “Despite all the horrors they went through, the …
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Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The World War II-era relic is lifted by crane over the trees at the Holocaust Memorial Center on Orchard Lake Road.
Alexander Karp watched Monday morning as crews moved a World War II-era boxcar into its new space at the Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills. A Holocaust survivor and West Bloomfield resident, Karp said the boxcar is "approximately the same size" as the one that carried him and 20 of his family members to Birkenau concentration camp in 1944. Only he and an uncle survived. While some may want to block from their minds the horrific loss of more than six million Jews and other non-Aryans, Karp said he will not. "It's something we cannot forget," he said. The center's executive director Stephen Goldman said while other Holocaust museums have boxcars, the location of the HMC's exhibit, near the building'…
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Henrietta and Alvin Weisberg of Bloomfield Hills will fund construction of the new gallery at the Holocaust Memorial Center.
Bloomfield Hills resident Henrietta Weisberg seemed in awe of the moment Wednesday night, as more than 50 guests gathered to break ground for the new Henrietta and Alvin Weisberg Gallery at the Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in Farmington Hills. The next exhibit is a permanent outdoor structure that will house an authentic World War II-era boxcar, like those used by Nazis to transport millions of European Jews to death camps during the Holocaust. "I never expected to be able to do something so wonderful," said Weisberg, who survived the Holocaust. She said she came to the U.S. 65 years ago "with only a Kleenex in my pocket". HMC president Gary Karp said the exhibit represents "an exciting new chapter" in the museum's history. The …
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Henrietta and Alvin Weisberg of Bloomfield Hills will fund construction of the gallery at the Holocaust Memorial Center.
Bloomfield Hills resident Henrietta Weisberg seemed in awe of the moment Wednesday night, as more than 50 guests gathered to break ground for the new Henrietta and Alvin Weisberg Gallery at the Holocaust Memorial Center (HMC) in Farmington Hills. The next exhibit is a permanent outdoor structure that will house an authentic World War II-era boxcar, like those used by Nazis to transport millions of European Jews to death camps during the Holocaust. "I never expected to be able to do something so wonderful," said Weisberg, who survived the Holocaust. She said she came to the U.S. 65 years ago "with only a Kleenex in my pocket". HMC president Gary Karp said the exhibit represents "an exciting new chapter" in the museum's history. The …
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
'Courage and Compassion: The Legacy of the Bielski Brothers' remains on display at the Farmington Hills museum through Nov. 4.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
An exhibit that details a resistance group operating against the Nazis during the occupation of Poland and Belarus opened Sunday at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills. “Courage and Compassion: The Legacy of the Bielski Brothers” shares a story made famous in the 2008 movie, Defiance, with Daniel Craig portraying Tuvia Bielski, the group’s leader. Bielski's granddaughter, award-winning independent filmmaker and television editor Sharon Rennert delivered the keynote address at the opening ceremony. The exhibit, which will be on display through Nov. 4, begins with life in Belarus, accounts of escape and the formation of probably the most famous partisan detachment. Through panels, artifacts and interactive displays, the …
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