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and historical references.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Portraits of Honor is a learning tool about the lives of Survivors through their photographs, biographies, and historical references.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
Simon Tabachnik
Georgette Barouch
Richard Pergament
Albert Fein
"Do not let it happen again!!"
Bernard Klein
Hadasa Goldberg
Paula Marks-Bolton
Viola Kappy
Rose Bernbaum
"Don't give up hope; believe in G-d. Help those in need. When anyone ever needed anything I was there to help. That's how people are supposed act."
Fela Szymkowicz
Boris Broder
Bella Zarnowiecki
Hersz Nisenbaum
Martin Shlanger
"We must be vigilant. Evil starts with a few people and then grows like a cancer. Don't be complacent; speak up when you see injustice.
Each time I leave my house I think back on how wonderful my life is now. After the war I could never have believed that I would come to America and have my beautiful children and grandchildren. It was an impossible to even dream such a thing."
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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