Our Michigan Holocaust Survivors is an interactive educational exhibit of the Program for Holocaust Survivors and families
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Add a survivorPortraits 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 Portraits of Honor is a learning tool about the lives of Survivors through their photographs, biographies, and historical references.
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Erna Staub
Hela Jutkiewicz
Arnold Troostwijk
Margot Massey
Wolf Sharansky
Henry Wormser
Rena Cohen
Naum Layer
Meta Wormser
Felicia Shloss
Asa Shapiro
Shari Weiss
Katherine "Kathy" Sattler
Berl Zicherman
Sabina Water
Fani Fischer
Sam Biegun
Mirel Rottersman
Charles Strassberg
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 Portraits of Honor is a learning tool about the lives of Survivors through their photographs, biographies, and historical references.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.
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