The Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills is offering free admission on Thursday in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, also known as Yom HaShoah.

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Each year on Holocaust Remembrance Day, the museum invites the community to take part in “Unto Every Person There Is a Name,” an international memorial project that pays tribute to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust by reading their names aloud.

Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld, CEO of the Holocaust Center

“There are millions of names that have been collected over the years of those who were murdered in the Holocaust,” said Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld, CEO of the Zekelman Holocaust Center. “Over the course of the day, we’ll read, really only a couple 1,000. I mean, it takes to read, you know, six million names would take a year more.”

The Holocaust Center will also host remembrance events on Sunday, April 27, including a commemoration attended by Holocaust survivors and World War II veterans, featuring candle lighting, poetry and prayers.

For more information about upcoming remembrance events, visit holocaustcenter.org/events.

Other headlines for Tuesday, April 22, 2025:

• The Detroit Department of Transportation announced Monday that it is expanding services including increasing frequency of buses on 13 routes and expanding weekend hours on 17 routes.
• Detroit’s Southeastern High School has been named one of three winners of the SME Education Foundation Bright Minds Student Summit, alongside Lincoln Senior High School in Ypsilanti and Hazel Park’s Roosevelt INVEST High School. 
• Tiff Massey’s “7 Mile and Livernois” exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Arts closes in just a few weeks. On May 9, the museum will host “7 Mile and Livernois After Dark,”a closing celebration featuring live performances from DJs KESSWA and Donavan Glover. 

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