The SRCM is pleased to announce that Miriam Brysk will be our guest, along with Hank Greenspan, at this years Shoah Commemoration Service April 25 at 3:30 pm, Samuel Lutheran Church (corner of 8th Street and Muskegon Ave).
Miriam Brysk (Miriam Miasnik) was born in 1935 in Warsaw, Poland. She and her parents were interned in the Lida ghetto and survived the ghetto massacre of May 1942, after having been selected to die (the Nazis still needed her father’s surgical skills). The Miasnik family escaped the ghetto and joined the Russian partisans in December 1942. Her father ran a forest hospital staffed by Jewish doctors and nurses; he was later awarded the Order of Lenin for his work in the partisans. After liberation in 1944, the family first lived in Belarus then escaped to central Poland. They traversed most of central Europe and came to America in February 1947. Miriam earned a Ph.D. in Biological Sciences from Columbia University. She is an artist and speaker on the Holocaust. The mother of daughters Judy and Havi, and grandmother of five, Miriam now lives with her husband Henry in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she is an artist, writer, and lecturer on the Holocaust; she also has recorded the songs of the Holocaust for Michigan Media.
Dr. Hank Greenspan has worked with and interviewed survivors, is an author and playwright.
Hank will be interviewing Miriam so as to help us listen more clearly to a story which begins before the Holocaust and is still being lived today.
The music for the service will by various artists in our community.