Portraits of Honor: Our Michigan Holocaust Survivors is an interactive educational exhibit of the Program
for Holocaust Survivors and Families,
a service of Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit.
Portraits of Honor was developed in 1999 under the direction of Dr. Charles Silow, the son of Holocaust
Survivors.
Its purpose is to document the lives of Holocaust Survivors who have lived in Michigan for education and
for posterity.
Portraits of Honor is a learning tool about the lives of Survivors through their photographs, biographies,
and historical references.
Portraits of Honor: Our Michigan Holocaust Survivors
is an interactive educational exhibit of the
Program for Holocaust Survivors and Families, a service of Jewish Senior
Life of Metropolitan Detroit.
Portraits of Honor was developed in
1999
under the direction of Dr. Charles Silow, the son of Holocaust Survivors. Its purpose is to document the lives of Holocaust Survivors who have lived in Michigan for education and for posterity.
Portraits of Honor is a learning tool about the lives of Survivors through their photographs, biographies, and historical references.
As you look at the portraits of the Survivors, you will see faces of pain and suffering as
well as faces reflecting beauty, resilience, and the triumph of the human spirit.
survivors
Leon Greenbaum
Simon Tabachnik
Alice Kroh
Helene Aron
"This shouldn't be forgotten...It does make a person stronger to go though all kinds of perils like that."
Eva Rival
Lillian Wohl
Saul Muskovitz
Abraham Holcman
Rita Rozencweig
"I can't believe that human beings can kill other human beings."
Ernie Eick
Jacques Szafman
Henry Brysk
Belle Eisenberg
Isaac Besserman
"Albert told many stories about his experiences during the Holocaust. He was hopeful that such atrocities would never happen again."
Albert Cimmer
Isadore Ciesla
Ernst Conrad
Shoshana Winkler
Mina Martin
"Their bravery and their belief in G-d. They refused to wear their yellow armband and took great risks to save their baby daughter."
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World
War II.
Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews
across German-occupied Europe,
around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass
shootings; by a policy of extermination through work in concentration camps;
and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno,
Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland.
Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Adolf Hitler's appointment
as Chancellor on 30 January 1933, the regime built a network of concentration camps
in Germany for political opponents and those deemed "undesirable", starting with Dachau on 22 March 1933.
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Holocaust Survivors and Families
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