Most of our events take place at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan unless otherwise noted.
Join us as we hear the sucess stories of three of our members!
Alexandra Goldberg, VP of Programming
Recreating ancestors branch based on the databases of the Warsaw Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery, JRI Poland and Yad VaShem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names
Tentative: John Kovacs, Past President
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Samuel Brenner was born on June 2, 1922 in Montréal, Canada. He was 9 months old when his family moved to Detroit, Michigan where he was raised.
As the youngest of six children, ‘Sy’ (taken from his middle name, Seymour) was well-protected by his brothers, Saul and Myer. He was also doted on by his sisters, Fanny, Rae and Clara.
Sy’s father, Morris worked for a steel company during the depression and his mother, Rebecca was a devoted wife and mother. As you can imagine, Sy’s life was somewhat typical as the child of Austrian immigrants.
However, in 1942 his life entered a path that would change him forever. This is when he was drafted into WWII. Brenner went into the 410th Infantry regiment of the 103rd Division. He won a medal for Expert with the M1 rifle. Later he was transferred to the 2nd Battalion medical detachment. It was also during Basic Training that he received his United States Citizenship.
On the night of November 29, 1944, while serving in Southern France, Brenner was wounded and taken prisoner by the Nazis. He was involved in a two week death march from Nothalden, France, in the Vosges Mountains to Ludwigsberg, Germany at the height of the coldest winter in European History.
Sy Brenner will join us via Skype and speak about his experiences as told in his book, The Night I Got Killed. Mr. Brenner integrates humor thoughtfully to keep his audience seated comfortably with lessons of war, stress and the industry of his 43 year profession in sales.
Map to West Bloomfield Public Library
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AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER AT SAN FRANCISCO’S 16TH BERLIN & BEYOND FILM FESTIVAL, 2011
Inspired by actual events, REMEMBRANCE depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in 1944 in Poland. In a daring escape, Tomasz, a young Polish prisoner, rescues the life of his Jewish lover Hannah Silberstein. But during the chaos of the end of the war, they are forcibly separated and each is convinced that the other has died. More than thirty years later in New York City, the happily married Hannah believes to have seen her Tomasz in an interview on TV. And she begins to search for him again…
Germany 2011
In German and Polish with English subtitles
105 Minutes
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Family photos are your most valuable records. But sometimes either you are too close to the photos, or lack the time or expertise to detect and interpret the clues that can further your genealogy research.
Sherlock Cohn has the knowledge to interpret the clues for you.
Ava Cohn, aka Sherlock Cohn, The Photo Genealogist, brings a lifelong fascination with heirloom photographs and a multidisciplinary background to photo dating and interpretation. Read more »
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