EDITORIAL: 'It is worth a visit to 5461 Northfield Road and the graveyard within which the nation’s first national Holocaust memorial lies, to reflect on the cost paid when we do not answer the dictates of conscience, faith, justice & our shared humanity.'
, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Matt Dolan of Chagrin Falls and Democratic state Sen. Kenny Yuko of Richmond Heights, called on Ohio’s congressional delegation to pass an act to designate the Kol Israel Holocaust Memorial – believed to be the first or among the first Holocaust memorials in the United States – as a national memorial.
and co-sponsored by the other three Ohio Democrats then in Congress and by five Ohio Republicans – U.S. Reps. Anthony Gonzalez, Dave Joyce, Mike Carey, Troy Balderson and Mike Turner -- as well as by both Sens. Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman in the Senate, the memorial At the memorial in Bedford Heights, a low black granite wall encircles the memorial, listing by name many of the lost family members of local survivors, sometimes noting where they died. Auschwitz. Minsk. Warsaw.
His father, Samuel Zelwin , was one of a long line of kosher butchers in Novogrudok, Poland, according to. Samuel managed to escape the Novogrudok Ghetto in 1941, joining the partisan Bielski brothers in fighting the Nazis and marrying another partisan, Chaike Duszkin. After the war, Sam and Ida immigrated to Northeast Ohio, helping to found the Kol Israel Foundation.
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