Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Women in Genocide: A Comparative Assessment. Don't miss this lecture
commemorating the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide on Sunday, April
15 @ 1:30 pm.

Join Helene Sinnreich, Henry Theriault, and
Wenona Rymond-Richmond in a discussion about the plight of women in
different genocides in the 20th century.

-Program is free and open to the public.
-Reservations are required by Monday, April 9, 2012. Call (313)577-2679 or email cohnhaddowcenter@wayne.edu
-Event at the Bernath Auditorium - Adamany Undergraduate Library, Wayne State University
-Light refreshments will be served

Co-sponsored by the Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, The Armenian Research Center, The Holocaust Memorial Center and the Cohn-Haddow Center 

On March 24, 2012, the Voice/Vision Archive Archive, along with the Jewish Gay Network is co-sponsoring " An Evening with Don Was" at the Stephen Gottlieb Music Festival at the JCC of Metropolitain Detroit.

More information on the event, including location, ticket prices and time can be found by clicking here.  

The Taubman Health Sciences Library at the University of Michigan will host the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition, Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race. The exhibition illustrates how Nazi leadership enlisted people in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, to legitimize persecution, murder and, ultimately, genocide. Deadly Medicine, which is cosponsored by the University of Michigan’s Center for the History of Medicine, will premiere on February 3, 2012 on the 4th floor of the Taubman Health Sciences Library and runs through April 13, 2012.

Accompanying the exhibition will be an opening reception and closing reflections panel discussion. Event details will be announced at a later date.

Taubman Health Sciences Library - 1135 E. Catherine St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (www.lib.umich.edu/thl)

Dates and Times: The exhibition will be viewable February 3 – April 13, 2012 during library hours.

This display is cosponsored by the U-M Taubman Health Sciences Library and the U-M Center for the History of Medicine.

Exhibition and events are free and open to the public.

Edith Kozlowski was born in 1922 in Radom, Poland. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Edith and her family were placed in the largest of the two ghettos in Radom. In the ghetto, Edith worked in the AVL factory, sewing German uniforms. In 1943, Edith and her sisters were sent to Blizyn, where Edith worked sorting clothes. In the summer of 1944, the sisters were transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In December 1944, Edith was sent to Bergen-Belsen where she was liberated in April, 1945.

Eric Rosenow was born in Berlin, Germany. Before the war, Eric was an actor in theater and cinema. After Hitler banned Jewish people from performing for Gentiles, he started an orchestra and performed for other Jews. In 1939, Eric and his brother decided to move to Shanghai. Their parents and other brother followed there shortly afterward. Eric and his family moved into the Jewish ghetto in Shanghai where Eric made a living performing in local night clubs. After the war, Eric was married and his family moved to Detroit. 

Miriam Biegun was born in White Russia. She and her family fled the ghetto for the Lipiczanska forest, joining the Lipiczanska Puszcza resistance when she was just four years old. In 1944, after living in the forest for three years, she and her siblings returned to Zhetl to find it in ruins. After a few months, they moved to Lódz', where her siblings went to a kibbutz and Miriam went on to Berlin by 1947. While in Germany, she was also with her aunts and uncles in Ziegenhain and Jäger-Kaserne before ultimately travelling to Israel with an aunt, uncle, and cousin and meeting her husband on the ship. The two were married in Israel before moving to Winnipeg and Windsor before finally settling down in Oak Park around 1970.