By: Ruth Bergman, Director of Education – Do you shudder when you hear about today’s increase in antisemitism and then wonder how you can improve this terrible situation? You already are making a huge difference, through your support of the HMC. Your generosity makes it possible to fight the scourge of antisemitism from the ground… Continue Reading At the Forefront of Fighting Antisemitism in Michigan
By: HMC Editorial Staff – Marvin Zucker, son of Holocaust survivors, feels it’s his responsibility to fund an organization he believes in to make it stronger. As a loyal donor to the Holocaust Memorial Center, Marvin has done just that. Zucker’s parents, Channa and Nathan Zucker, were forcibly deported from Poland to a Russian… Continue Reading Family Spotlight: Keeping Memories Alive
By: HMC Editorial Staff – Like many of our wonderful volunteers, Clara Garbon-Radnoti is devoted and passionate about the Holocaust Memorial Center’s mission to engage, educate and empower by remembering the Holocaust. But she had no idea that her work as a volunteer would lead to a monumental discovery for Holocaust survivors and Hungarian Jews.… Continue Reading Translating Tragedy: Clara Garbon-Radnoti’s Deciphering of Hungarian Holocaust Records
By: Feiga Weiss, Head Librarian & Archivist – The Holocaust tragedy keeps resurfacing. In 2010, a gentleman with no foreign accent arrived in the Library and after mustering great courage, announced, “I am a Holocaust survivor.” He had come to the Library to see if he might find out about his background. He identified himself… Continue Reading No one knows what happened to six-year-old Rolf Hess
By: Gary Karp, President of the Board of Directors – As we commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of WWII, we are aware of the need to cultivate a new generation of storytellers. The personal stories of loss, survival and rebuilding must be told, and who better to tell… Continue Reading Children of Survivors are Stepping Up
By: HMC Editorial Staff – Vera Spitz Herz last saw her childhood friend Agnes Kohn in a Displaced Persons camp in 1947. They had been school chums in Debrecen, Hungary, when the Germans came and took them from their homes. Vera and her family had miraculously survived as slave laborers. Agnes had endured Auschwitz and… Continue Reading Searching For Agi
