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	THE LEGACY "May Knowledge lead to Tolerance and effect Courage in Face of Injustice"
TEVES 5763 - February 2003

MY TRUE HERO

Note: As this newsletter went into print we learned of the tragic loss of the space shuttle Columbia with its seven astronauts on their final few minutes of the mission. We wish to express our deep condolences to the families.

	I don't think there was a person in Israel who didn't watch the Shuttle Columbia blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, yesterday. We watched with trepidation and anxiety, but most of all with pride as the graceful white shuttle lifted off into the blue Florida sky, trailing a white plume behind it. For us Israelis, it was a special flight, because our own astronaut, Colonel Ilan Ramon was among the crew, the first Israeli to enter space. For a short while we allowed ourselves to forget our problems, our differences, even the coming elections. We were united in hailing Colonel Illan Ramon as our hero.
But for me, there was another hero: someone that was hardly mentioned in the Israeli media. If it was not for an American TV station, which briefly stated that Colonel Illan Ramon's mother was an Auschwitz survivor, I too would have been ignorant of the fact. To most of us, the fact that his mother was a Holocaust survivor from Auschwitz, would be baffling that is why I would call her a hero. I will tell you why. After the collapse of Hitler's Reich and our liberation in the beginning of May, 1945, I served in the US army as an interpreter. I was fortunate enough to have learned English during the war, a language that very few survivors spoke. I served in a unit that was attached to the CIC, (Army Intelligence). We were eleven men, all of them, beside myself, American service men, who knew a second language besides their native English. Our job was to find Nazis hiding among the displaced persons in the DP camps. However, we also visited camps were only Jews lived, such as Feldafing, Fherenwald and more. For a while I was the interpreter for a Colonel Woodhouse, who for some reason was attached to our unit. Colonel Wood-house was an English psychiatrist who was sent to evaluate the mental state of the Jewish concentration camp survivors. I will never forget his official evaluation. He didn't keep it a secret and I was able to read it. "I came to the conclusion that the trauma caused to Jewish inmates of camps was unprecedented in its severity and that they would never be able to live normal lives, get married and have children. I have known patients who were subjected to trauma that weren't even a fraction of the trauma the Jews were subjected to and they were psychologically disabled for life. Therefore, I see no hope for them." Well, Colonel Woodhouse, allow me to introduce you to Mrs. Ramon, an Auschwitz survivor, who not only got married and brought children to this world, but brought up a son that anyone in the world would be proud of to call as his own, despite your prognosis. Perhaps, from the medical point of view he was right, but he didn't count on the spirit of the survivors. When we were liberated we were almost naked, bereft of all possessions, clad in a prisoner's striped uniform and wooden clogs. We owned nothing, not even underwear, socks or a handkerchief. We were like walking skeletons, all skin and bones. My schooling was interrupted when I was twelve, and I was subjected to brutalities that mankind has never known. I was liberated from the Nazis, but what next? So I stood before a world, I considered hostile, age seventeen, and I had to make my way through it. And yet I did it and I did it well. I don't know Mrs. Ramon, but today when I watched her son taking off into space, I am sure she did wonderfully well. Therefore, Mrs. Ramon, I salute you. You too are my hero. Solly Ganor, Student, Hertzeliah, Israel

PROMOTING TOLERANCE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Rabbi Solomon Schiff (center) with: Hovhannes Igityan (Armenia), Goran Kurevija (Croatia), Rebeka Srbinovic (Yugoslavia), Daniel Svorc (Slovakia), Walter Klitz (Naumann Foundation).	In November, 2002, the American Jewish Committee (AJC), in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation of Germany sponsored "Promoting Tolerance in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)" for the tenth consecutive year. Fourteen representatives of various republics in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS participated in the program, held here in Miami Beach. The geographic areas represented range from the Baltics to the Balkans, and Central Europe to Central Asia.
"Promoting Tolerance" endeavors to identify emerging leaders and opinion-shapers in the new democracies of Europe and Eurasia. The program’s objective is to introduce the participants to American initiatives aimed at fostering pluralism and respect for diversity in the United States. This way, the program could perhaps inspire similar efforts in the participants’ respective countries. This year’s delegation is comprised of political operative and activists, so a major focus of the program is to promote tolerance through political parties. The two sponsoring organizations contributed to the planning and implementation of the program according to their respective strengths. The Friedrich Naumann Foundation, a German political organization with offices and activities throughout Central and Eastern Europe and part of the former Soviet Union, played the principal role in identifying potential participants and provided the first orientation to the program. AJC, long-studied in inter-group relations and possessing a network of offices and membership chapters throughout America, was responsible for planning and organizing the program events here in the United States. On November 8, 2002 Participants of "Promoting Tolerance in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS" visited the Holocaust Memorial and met with Rabbi Solomon Schiff, a founding member of the Memorial, and Executive VP of the Rabbinical Association of Greater Miami.
"THE BOYS OF BUCHENWALD"
On Thursday, December 5th, 2002, our community was invited to hear Dr. Robert Krell tell the inspiring story of the 1,000 remaining Jewish boys found barely alive, by the Americans soldiers who liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. Dr. Krell’s lecture was based on the English version of his book "The Children of Buchenwald". Prior to the beginning of the lecture, the 12 survivors of Buchenwald in the audience, were called to light the Chanukah Menorah on the 7th night of Chanukah. Among them were George Goldbloom and David Schaecter, both founding members of the Holocaust Memorial, as well as other survivors in the audience.	Standing from R-L: Joe Sachs, David Meremelstein, David Schaecter, George Goldbloom, Joe Dziubak, Dr. Robert Krell, Lou Scott and Herby Karliner (sitting)
Dr. Krell, Professor Emeritus, at the University of British Colombia, unfolded an amazing story of this unique group of teenage survivors and what they accomplished in their lives since they were liberated. Included in the group of boys are Eli Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner for 1986, and Rabbi Israel Meir Lau (Lulek), currently the Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel.
EDUCATION DIRECTOR’S REPORT By Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff
Holocaust study is a growing priority and mandate in many states across the country. In Florida, the study of the Holocaust is mandated for all public schools grades K-12. Our Center, the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, assists in the teachers’ efforts to comply with this mandate by offering one of the best educational programs in the state. During the school year we host 10,000-12,000 students at the Memorial and already this school year over 50 schools have made reservations for field trips to the Holocaust Memorial. In addition to the school tours, we offer extensive teacher training seminars. Last April 24, 2002, we hosted over 100 teachers who had an opportunity to hear our guest speaker, Dr. Michael Berenbaum, speak on the "Lessons of the Holocaust and Post September 11, 2001" On November 1, 2002, the Memorial co-sponsored the "Teaching the Holocaust" seminar for 75 public and Jewish Day School teachers at the Dave and Mary Alper Jewish Community Center. The guest presenters were Dr. Robert Jan Van Pelt and Dr. William Meinecke, from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Teachers received Holocaust curriculum materials and in-service certification credit. The teacher seminar was funded in part by a grant from The David and Regina Weinberg Family Foundation. The Holocaust Education Week held from October 29th - November 8th, 2002 is a new initiative for the Holocaust Memorial. This year we brought to the community in Miami an array of programs on subjects of the Holocaust particularly expressed through the arts. It is our plan to make Holocaust Education Week an annual program and we thank the community for its support. As we are well into the academic school year of 2003, it is our goal at the Memorial to provide the teachers and students of Miami Dade County with as much information and guidance as they need in order to continue their study of the Holocaust. Our goal is for our students to learn that it is up to them and their generation that this tragic history shall never happen again to any people, anywhere.

"Murderers Among Us: Investigating and Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals"
On Thursday, January 9th, 2003, the Holocaust Memorial hosted as part of our annual lecture series, one of the best United States Justice Department’s Investigator and Prosecutor. Mr. Eli M. Rosenbaum, Director of the Office of Special Investigation (OSI), gave an intriguing and moving presentation to over four hundred people who attended that evening. Mr. Rosenbaum is the longest serving Director of OSI (14 years) and was involved in many cases of investigating, and deporting Nazi war criminals who managed to immigrate to the US after the war and obtained a status of US citizens using false documents and false identities. We bring you some of his opening remarks: "It is a pleasure to address you this evening, especially as I get to do so under the sponsorship of Miami Beach’s magnificent Holocaust Memorial - a memorial and a teaching center that has gained great renown not just around the country, but internationally, for its educational, architectural and artistic excellence, and particularly for its stellar success in reaching young people. The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial teaches, with extraordinary power and sensitivity, a lesson that, in this terrible new world of mass casualty terrorism directed against Americans, Israelis, Jews, Christians and the West generally, cannot possibly be more timely. That lesson is that hatred kills. Hitler and his minions laid the foundation for the mass murder of the Jews by propagating a nearly endless stream of hate propaganda (in today’s parlance we would call it "hate speech"). Year after year, the Jews were depicted as the cause of Germany’s troubles, the root of all the evil in the world, and finally as the equivalent of vermin, to be exterminated. Many thousands of people were thereby conditioned to participate in the annihilation process, and many millions were induced to stand idly by while their Jewish neighbors - men, women and children - were hauled off to the killing pits and concentration camps. Today, we hear echoes of these vile incitements in the grotesque pronouncements of Al Qaeda and similar groups, which openly incite hatred and unabashedly call for mass murder. Every day, the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial reminds us where such hatred can lead: to the abyss of genocide. This city’s unique Holocaust Memorial is thus far more than a historical remembrance, a history lesson, or a shrine to the victims. It is, as was so movingly explained to me today, a living memorial, one that seeks to preserve and protect life, by reminding us daily of the importance and potential of each and every innocent human life, and of the potential that humankind still has to object to evil, to fight evil, and ultimately, we hope, to prevail over evil. So it is, as I mentioned, a very special privilege for me to speak tonight under the Memorial’s kind sponsorship. For me, any discussion of the Holocaust and Nazi criminals must begin not with the perpetrators, but with the victims. Among the victims, I think especially of the survivors. They are the heroes of OSI’s prosecutions. They reopen old wounds that have never completely healed when they bravely recount for American judges - not one of whom, thank goodness, has ever personally experienced anything even remotely comparable to the Holocaust -- their ghastly experiences of victimization at the hands of the Nazis."
LETTERS FROM SCHOOL AND STUDENTS
CARROLLTON GIRL HIGH SCHOOL 03/07/2002 9th Grade After reading Night (Eli Weisel) and watching Schindler’s List the girls were very interested in learning more about the Holocaust. Having Ms. Ann Rosenheck speak to the girls really brought the "reality" to the situation. First-hand accounts are so important, and we realize how lucky we are to have heard it. Additionally, it was great for the girls to hear a female perspective, since most often history is from a male perspective. We are extremely grateful for the opportunity to hear your stories. MIAMI SHORES ELEMENTARY: 10/11/2002 5th Grade Our students learned so much from this visit. After visiting the Bass Museum (exhibit on Martin Luther King, Jr.) and coming to the Holocaust Memorial, our students could compare the prejudice and hatred shown to groups of people for being different either by religion, color, race, etc. Our students will come away with a sense of fairness and how all people must be accepted, given rights that are universal: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. HIALEAH MIDDLE SCHOOL: 05/28/2002 8th Grade The presentation was incredible and memorable. Having the speaker (Joe Dziubak) tell us his story, took us back in time and allowed us to feel the atrocity that the poor Jewish victims felt. The kids were moved by the entire experience. Joe’s experience and personal stories moved us to tears, but at the same time taught us the value of education, so that history will never repeat itself. Joe’s emphasis on accepting people for who they are helped reinforce what we teach them in school, which is to judge people for who they are and not how they look. Overall, everyone was very kind and informative. A special thank you to Joe, we understand how the memories must be hard to live with. Thank you, Avi Mizrachi, for allowing us to experience the Holocaust Memorial. THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL 05/10/2002 8th Grade My students are predominantly Haitian-American and have never been exposed to the atrocities of the Holocaust of World War II. We just completed a unit on the Holocaust where we read Night by Elie Wiesel and The Diary of Anne Frank. I was happy to see the recognition on my students’ faces as Mr. Henry Frydman spoke. My students understood what he was saying, because this was all covered in our unit. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for accommodating all 102 of my students. This is one day that I’m sure they will never forget, nor will I. BAY POINT SCHOOL 12/18/2002 11th Grade This experience was more than we could have anticipated. Our speaker (Nat Glass) expressed himself in a manner that captured our students’ attention. Moreover, the experiential knowledge that was given was invaluable. The enlightenment on prejudice and hatred was fabulous. To have an actual survivor speak to us is a life changing event. We would like to express our profound gratitude for you all opening up your hearts to us. Thank you! MIAMI HALFWAY HOUSE: DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE From a teenage boy in Juvenile Detention Dear Mr. Nat Glass, I really enjoyed the trip to the museum. I didn’t really think I could enjoy a place that seemed so morbid and eerie. I have to admit, you had and still have a lot of determination. That’s what I like about your story. How you persevered through such trials and tribulations. I honestly don’t know how you made it. We call people like you soldiers; people who always seem to make it through the worst times. You are someone who took on everything and in the end you made it, and you learned something from it. Now you have more wisdom, which can help change someone else’s life. I never knew the difference between knowledge and wisdom, but I learned today. I really admire how you treat others the way you want to be treated. A lot of people are hypocrites. They say one thing and do another. But you seem different. I know if you made it through the Holocaust I can sure make it through this program. Thank you for showing me what real courage is, and how to have the strength to make it through the most difficult times in my life.
VOLUNTEER PROFILE: Henry and Sabina Frydman
	When you visit the Holocaust Memorial on Friday morning you most likely will meet a wonderful couple in the information office. Since opening day in 1990, Henry Frydman and his lovely wife, Sabina, arrive at the Holocaust Memorial every Friday at 9:00 am. They welcome visitors from all over the world, and are guides for the group of students scheduled to visit the Memorial on that day. Both of them teach and share their experiences of living and surviving through this darkest period of history. Both Henry and Sabina were born in Czenstohova, Poland of Orthodox Families. Sabina is the youngest of 10 children, whose father was a merchant, and Henry is the oldest of 6 children, whose father was a Kosher Butcher. Sabina was active in the Girl Scouts and an Israel Organization. At the age of 14, Henry began to work in a Textile Store.
In September 1939, life for all citizens of the city of Czenstohova, known as the "Holy City" of Poland, was disrupted. Being near the German border it only took the German Army four hours to occupy the city once they had entered Poland. It was a Friday, Sabina remembers, and the soldiers walked around calmly giving candy to the children. But on Monday, while Sabina was out on an errand, the trucks stormed through the city telling everyone to lay down in the streets. Those who did not understand and obeyed the order were shot. Many Poles and Jews were killed on that day, which is referred to as "Bloody Monday", simply because they did not understand German. Then they arrested everyone on the streets and held them for three days. Everyone except the intellectuals of the city returned home and life went back to normal for about six weeks. In December the Nazis rounded up all the Jews and forced them into Ghettos where Sabina and Henry’s families lived for three years. Sabina was forced to work in an ammunition factory and Henry worked as a "Ball Boy" at the Elite Gestapo Officers Tennis Courts. The liquidation of the Ghetto which held 30,000 Jews began in September 22, 1942. Both Henry (20 years old) and Sabina (16 years old) were the only ones in their respective families left behind. The rest of their families were taken away to Treblinka and they never saw them again. The Nazis kept 2500 others relocated in a smaller ghetto, to continue to work in the factories and clean up the larger ghetto. Henry was then working in the Steel Mill and Sabina continued in the ammunition factory. During this eight month period, Henry joined a resistance group which hid itself inside the small ghetto. When the group was caught most of his comrades were shot and killed. Henry was spared. Eventually he was moved to the ammunition factory, where Henry and Sabina met each other and fell in love. They worked in the same area for 14 months. Then in December 1944 Henry was taken away to Buchenwald and Sabina to Bergin Belsin. Henry was transferred to Dora and then to Bergen Belsen, but Sabina was transferred to Dachau concentration camp. In January 1945 as the Allies started to approach, Dachau was cleared out and Sabina found herself in what is called the "Death March". They took all the prisoners and marched them back into Germany, when they didn’t know what to do with those who straggled behind, they locked them into a barn and burned the barn down. If anyone tried to escape they were shot down. One day an air raid flew over and Sabina noticed that it was an American plane. She told the 3 other women she was walking with that the next time they flew over she would run, "better I be shot than burn in a barn." The four women managed to run away from the Nazis the next time the airplanes flew overhead. They lived in hiding afraid of the German citizens, until they saw a US fleet of trucks and tanks. They ran to them. A Jewish-American soldier spoke a little Yiddish and told them that they were liberated and the US office in the nearby city would help them. Henry meanwhile in Bergen Belsen was liberated and he immediately went to search for Sabina. He traveled clear across Germany to a small town just outside of Munich where he had found out Sabina was in a Catholic Hospital where she was deathly ill. After she had regained her health, they both went to a DP (Displaced Persons) camp and married June 29, 1946. They moved to the United States in 1950 and have 2 children and 2 grandchildren. When their children were in high school in the late 60’s, their daughter came home one day in tears. Her teacher had said that the Holocaust had never happened and that the Jews were looking for sympathy. Up until then Sabina and Henry had not wanted to talk too much about their experiences. But they realized that they were obligated to their families and to all who perished that they should tell what happened and the outcome of prejudice. They are grateful for the Holocaust Memorial, because it graphically shows what happened and it gives them the opportunity to talk to many young people and share their love story in the midst of survival and teach the lessons of the Holocaust.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF RABBI MAURICE KLEIN
Rabbi Maurice Klein was a scholar, a Holocaust Survivor, a spiritual leader at five South Florida synagogues, including associate Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El on Miami Beach. He also was the father of the Holocaust Memorial Education Director, Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff and Committee Member, Hank Klein. On the eve of Rosh Hashana in September of 2002, Rabbi Maurice Klein died of heart failure at Mr. Sinai Medical Center. Rabbi Klein escaped from a Hungarian labor camp and shepherded his family through war-torn Europe as they fled Nazi persecution. Having come from a long line of rabbis, strengthened by his faith and will to fight, Rabbi Klein was a true survivor and has passed his strength of character on to his children. His oldest son, Ted, is an attorney who was nominated by President Clinton for a federal judgeship. Hank Klein is assistant to the chair of the Codina Group and a former business associate of Gov. Jeb Bush. Dr. Miriam Klein Kassenoff has been the one to preserve the stories of her father and family. As the the Holocaust Specialist for Miami Dade County Public Schools and the Director of Education at the Holocaust Memorial, Dr. Klein Kassenoff has shared the saga of her family’s survival with countless audiences. The story in brief is as follows: Maurice Klein was a young father of two living in the small Czech town of Kosice, when in 1939 he was sent to a Hungarian Labor camp. In 1940, he managed to escape and return to Kosice to gather his wife, Sara and daughter, Miriam, who was a toddler, and son, Ted, who was an infant. They lived in hiding for a year keeping on the move. Sometimes they would be separated and miraculously find each other again. Finally in 1941, they managed to get one of the last ships helping Jewish emigrants escape from Nazi Europe which sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, and then eventually on to the United States. The name of the ship was the Ciudad de Seville. Life in America was difficult since they arrived with 14 cents. Maurice Klein had graduated from the prestigious Yeshiva in Munkacs, Hungary, but here in his new homeland he had to establish himself as a rabbi. He was an esteemed rabbi who held pulpits in Cleveland, Ohio, Canton, Ohio and Nashville, Tennessee. Finally the family settled in Miami in 1958 where he had presided over the congregations of Temple Beth Tov, Temple Zamora, Temple Tifereth Israel, Temple Tifereth Jacob, and Temple Emanu-el. After suffering a stroke in 1992, he retired. His dear wife, Sara, tenderly cared for him before his death for ten years. Rabbi Klein left behind a valuable legacy to his wife, Sara, three children, four grand children and five great-grandchildren.
DEAR FRIENDS
Please remember to give your annual contribution to the Holocaust Memorial. With your commitment and support, the Holocaust Memorial has been able to provide quality programs to our community some of which are featured in this Newsletter. We are truly grateful for all your support. With my best regards, David Schaecter, Holocaust Survivor and Founding Member of the Holocaust Memorial
Special Programs for Schools: Bus Scholarship & Ann Frank Play
The Holocaust Memorial is initiating a new program, by providing Bus Scholarships, to assist schools and youth groups that would otherwise have difficulty visiting the Holocaust Memorial. Please note funds are limited and based on a first come, first serve basis. Schools and groups must make their request on school or organizational letter head, and will not be eligible unless they have written pre-approval from the Holocaust Memorial. The organizers of the field trips must make their own bus arrangements. On Monday, April 28, 2003 to commemorate Yom Hashoah (International Holocaust Remembrance Day) a play on the Life of Anne Frank will be performed for Public and Jewish Day School students. The play is sponsored by the Holocaust Memorial and co-sponsored by Temple Emanu-El, with Mrs. Sandra Muss as chairwoman. The program is free for all schools and will take in place at Temple Emanu-El, 1700 Washington Ave, Miami Beach. Reservations must be made in advance. For more information call and ask for Mary 305-538-1663.
IN MEMORY
Donations were given to the Holocaust Memorial in loving Memory from friends and family to those who passed away this year, 2002: JACK WACHER . MOSHE BERKOVITZ STUART SHEPHERD . GERALDINE CAPLAN LILLIAN RYAVE . DIANA MATZ . GAYLE ROSS HERBERT YOUTIE . BEATRICE LEVY JULIUS LEVINE . DR. LEO BRODIE PHYLLIS MILLER . HERB WERTH ROBERT CAINE . DANIEL BARKLEY CLAIRE DESKIN . MR. SIMEON SPEAR BELOVED MOTHER OF DAVID GOLDMAN LILLY JACOBS HACK . MADELIN JACOBS ISRAEL KUCZYNSKI . LEONARD MILLER ERNEST EISLER . JOSEPH FEINGOLD NEAL AMDUR . ELZIE KLEIN . PETER SEGAL JOYCE BRAMAN . MIRIAM STERNSON BELOVED BROTHER OF EVELYN GOLDBLOOM BELOVED WIFE OF MANNY TAICH BEATRICE GRAY . MIRIAM STERNSON ELSIE BINSTOK . GEDALYA HILLEL BELOVED MOTHER OF MIRIAM WIENER BELOVED FATHER OF BRIAN DANIELS JON HENNING . LEONARD NEWMARK BELOVED MOTHER OF GARY YARUS BELOVED HUSBAND OF MAGDA BADER JOSEPH A. NEVEL . SIDNEY WOLRICH LILLIAN ROBBINS . HOWARD LOEWENSTEIN DAVID A. ROBINS . DORA & NAT FEINBERG SALLY STOCK HYMAN . JACK POLLACK DOROTHY KAPLAN . HENRY COHEN IRVING & ELEANOR WEISS . ANN GLADSDEN ALFREDO BERLSEIN . ROSE STROCHLITZ BELOVED WIFE OF BENJAMIN WISHNEWITZ ALBERT PARISH . HILDA FRIEDMAN SIDNEY ZIMMY . ISAAC SADOVNIK MURIEL ALTSHULER . MORRIS JUKEL SHARON NORRY SEIDMAN . KURT KOHORN CHARLES SEGAL . MANNY PAPPER . KENNETH ROBINSON RABBI MAURICE KLEIN (BELOVED FATHER OF DR. MIRIAM KLEIN KASSENOFF

"And Let Their Souls Be Bound In the Bond of Eternal Life"

Also Congratulations and Best Wishes to those who had their Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah or in celebration of their Birthday or Anniversary this year. The Holocaust Memorial Committee, the volunteers and staff wish to extend their deep gratitude for remembering the Holocaust Memorial during these special occasions with a thoughtful gift.

WAYS TO CONTINUE THE LEGACY...

You may chose how you wish to support the Holocaust Memorial. Make all donations to: HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139 Or Call: 305 538 1663 - Fax: 305 538 2423

FRIENDS OF THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL Friends contributions help perpetuate and maintain this important landmark and its Holocaust Educational and Cultural Programs. As the Memorial prepares for another year, we are asking you to again consider extending your support and keep the flame burning... we must never forget! All Friends of the Holocaust Memorial will also receive the LEGACY newsletter of the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach published in the fall and spring, plus additional gifts at each level.

GUARDIAN $1,800 GUARANTOR $1,000 PATRON $500 BENEFACTOR $250 SUSTAINOR $125 SUPPORTOR $50 PLEDGE TO THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL Pledges help to maintain and secure the Holocaust Memorial, which provides a physical place for survivors to remember their loved ones and where we can take our children and our grandchildren to learn the history of the Jewish people. A three year pledge drive is currently underway. $ __________________ (Total Pledge) Installments of $______________ a year (3 years) First payment to be paid (month) ____________ 2002. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL WALL Names of Holocaust victims, submitted by their loved ones, will be permanently etched into wall’s black granite, assuring that their martyred names and their memory can go on living forever. Each individual name inscribed is $36 per name. Click Here to see form! HONORARIUM or MEMORIAL GIFTS Gifts may be sent to the Memorial in Honor or in Memory of an individual. In addition to gifts made in Memory of loved ones who have passed away, many people use this opportunity for various life-cycle celebrations such as Bar Mitzvahs, birthdays and anniversaries. The individual or the family will receive a beautiful and thoughtful card appropriate for the occasion. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL ENDOWMENT FUND Contributors may chose to participate in the Holocaust Memorial Endowment Campaign which seeks to secure the future of the Memorial by establishing an Endowment Fund. Many Holocaust Survivors have considered including the Holocaust Memorial-Miami Beach in their wills/bequests.