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 Portraits of Honor is a learning tool about the lives of Survivors through their photographs, biographies, and historical references.
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Ayala Jedwab
Michael Fordonski
Isadore Ciesla
Jacob Reisman
Ruth Ross
Rosa Grunfeld
Tobi Roth
Rose Guttman
Mordechai Mertz
Fani Adelsberg
Irene Schwartz
"Uncle" Sam Chesla
Jacob Flam
Regina Muskovitz
Robert Devries
Rosa Rusoinik
Esther Halpern
Brandla Small
Rabbi Moshe Polter
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 Portraits of Honor is a learning tool about the lives of Survivors through their photographs, biographies, and historical references.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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