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Flora Hommel
Meet Flora Hommel, a native Detroiter and founder of the Childbirth Without Pain Education Association (CWPEA)
Meet Flora Hommel, a native Detroiter and founder of the Childbirth Without Pain Education Association (CWPEA)
The flag of the city of Detroit was designed by David Heineman in 1907
Bottling, plastics and packaging visionary with a passion for the arts
First female intern at Hurley Hospital devoted life to aiding women and children
Textile design pioneer escaped Nazi Germany and fought gender discrimination
Lifelong educator taught generations in Michigan's western Upper Peninsula
WWII pilot with a love of flying and family
Helped lay the foundations for Jewish social services throughout Detroit.
In 1885, Congregation Beth El in Traverse City was formed. Traverse City’s early Jewish settlers came from Eastern Europe, largely from Russia and Poland.
In 1911, Aaron founded the Aaron DeRoy Car Co. and opened a Studebaker dealership, becoming the first Jewish auto-dealership owner.
David Emil Henieman, born in Detroit on October 17, 1865, was the son of Emil and Fanny Butzel Heineman, prominent Jewish Detroiters who ran a clothing store within Detroit’s Russell House on Campus Martius, and were very involved in the community.
She served as president for some thirty years of the Detroit Ladies' Society for the Support of Hebrew Widows and Orphans in the State of Michigan, popularly known as The Frauen Verein.
In 1861, the year the Civil War began, there were just 151 Jewish families in Michigan.
David Emil Henieman, born in Detroit on October 17, 1865, was the son of Emil and Fanny Butzel Heineman, prominent Jewish Detroiters who ran a clothing store within Detroit’s Russell House on Campus Martius, and were very involved in the community.
Ezekiel Solomon, a native of Berlin, Germany, who had served with the British army, arrived at Michilimackinac in the summer of 1761. He is Michigan’s first known resident of the Jewish faith.
Near this site, in 1850, a small group of German-Jewish immigrants gathered at the home of Isaac and Sarah Cozens and formed the Bet El Society. Here Marcus Cohen, a layman, conducted the first Jewish religious service in Detroit.
This half-acre cemetery, dedicated on January 1851, was known then as “The Champlain Street Cemetery of Temple Beth El” because Lafayette was formerly Champlain Street.
The Butzel company not only provided uniforms to the Union soldiers during the Civil War, but the brothers also helped provide safe passage for slaves making their way along the Underground Railroad.
