The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus partnered with the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Chicago to open an exhibit on Sunday, Sept. 9, to honor the Polish Righteous Among the Nations, a group of men and women who rescued Jews from extermination by the Nazis.
Attorney Michael H. Traison (left), a partner with Miller Canfield, was among the speakers along with Paulina Kapuscinska (right), Polish consul general in Chicago.
“The exhibit that we are looking at today is an exhibit on a select number of righteous Polish gentiles who were awarded certificates by Yad Vashem in Israel for their heroism in saving Jews from the Germans during the Holocaust in Poland,” Traison noted.
“This group is representative of only one geographic region in Poland where the National Institute of Remembrance has sampled such recipients. We couldn’t possibly have all of them here because there are something like 6,500 such honored people and, by the way, that is one quarter of the total number that have ever been honored by Yad Vashem.”
The exhibit will be on display at the Holocaust Memorial Center located at 28123 Orchard Lake Road in Farmington Hills through Sunday, Oct. 7.
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