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HOW TO REACH US - BY PHONE 860-442-8062 • BY FAX 860-443-4175 • BY EMAIL [email protected] • BY MAIL: 28 CHANNING STREET, NEW LONDON, CT 06320 Henny Simon tribute Israel Independence Day SEE AD ON PAGE 16 By Jerry Fischer, JFEC Executive Director Monday, May 1 ed by hearing the war th RayThese Gawendo are the names; these are the witness- stories, encouraged Come celebrate Israel’s 69 birthday on , es:Oleg Elperin Henny to speak. She hosted at Congregation Beth El, 660 Ocean Ave, New London Sigmund Strochlitz(January 4, 1915 - ) started locally, in the with Emissaries Tal and Guy5:45 who PM are with planning a Torch another Lighting “knock & (July 12, 1932st - ) Colchester schools, Ayour Little socks Something off” event Extra. for the community’s enjoyment. Eva Powell (1 night Chanukah and then, through the The evening kicks off at 1916 - August 12, 2006) z’l Strochlitz Holocaust Volunteers from our community will Rabbi Isidore(November Greengrass 1, 1925 - July 28, Resource Center, re- have the honor of lighting 12 candles representing the 12 tribes 2009) gionally, in just about of Israel.At around This 6:30custom an began Israeli in meal Israel following the birth of the Jacob Biber (December 12, every school district state. The Little Something Extra is a surprise, so don’t be late. 1912 – August 12, 2009) z’l in eastern Connecti- of falafel, shawarma, hum- Henry Drobiarz(March 15, 1915 – November cut, and in the State Capitol for the officlal State mus, Israeli salads and pizza will be available. The meal will con- 21, 2009) z’l Commemoration. She was a nervous wreck clude with a “homemade” parevecontact birthday Mimi at cake. the Jewish Federa- Ruth Vogel (June 1, 1919 – September for that speech, but Romana Strochlitz Primus tionThe food is always delicious and to be sure we prepare enough and set up enough tables, 9, 2010) z’l coached her through the writing and presenta- INDEPENDENCE DAY CONT. ON PG 12 Mira Kil (March 19, 1919 – December 10, tion of the speech, and she was exemplary. via phone or email (preferable) to let us know your plans by 2013) z’l Abram Markiewicz and Bob Simon were two Yom Hashoah commemoration Elie Wiesel(December 8, 1925 – April 28, of four loves that Henny had in her life. Her SEE AD ON PAGE 16 2014) z’l first love was a man who proposed to her in the Henny Rosenbaum(September Markiewicz 30, 1928 – Simon July 2, ghetto. The engagement ring is on display in On Sunday, April 23, at 3:30 pm 2016) z’l the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC. I do not know his name. I asked Henny about it a few the Community Holocaust (JulyWe 15, have 1925 two – Aprilleft… 4, 2017) z’l weeks ago, after we had taken all this year’s Commemoration Service will be held at the Zachs Hillel House Encountering Survivor students to the Museum on the campus of Connecticut College, 270 Mohegan Avenue in and I had shown them the ring. She flashed a New London. There are a few more survivors in our com- smile at me and just said “He was something. There will be a musical prelude, a responsive reading and a munity. One or two still living, most gone. They But he was killed, like most of the others taken Memorial Candle Lighting ceremony with survivors and children too were witnesses, but just to their family, and out of the ghetto.” of survivors lighting candles while students from the general even then, perhaps, grudgingly and sparingly And then, in the last years of her life she met and Jewish community and from the College will narrate a dedi- did they share their experiences. The pain was Ben Cooper. He had been a medic in WW II, and cation for each candle. “Defying too great. part of the army that liberated Dachau. They theFollowing Nazis: The the Sharps’ Commemoration War,” Service, we will adjourn to For Henny Simon the pain was also too great, met at a State Holocaust Commemoration ser- the Olin Science Center theater for a 4:30 screening of especially perhaps for her late husband Abram. vice, and were companions for the past seven with commentary by film maker He did not let her speak of her experiences dur- years, speaking jointly in schools and spending Artemis A. W. Joukowsky, grandson of the Sharps, and Helen R. ing their marriage. During the war Abram had time in each other’s homes. As Ben said, they Dewey, another Sharps family member and a 1969 graduate of lost a wife and child to the Nazi murder ma- were guardian angels for each other. Connecticut College. chine. He did not want to hear about the war. Ben called me at theSIMON Federation CONT. shortly ON afterPG 7 The Commemoration Service and Film are co-sponsored by When Henny remarried, her new husband, the JFEC, the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life and the Zachs withoutA anyreunion personal pain that would like be reignit- no other: welcomingHillel House of Connecticut Bar College. and May By Marcia Reinhard, JFEC Asst. Director ter proof of this than what was them. seen this past Sunday, April 16 May and Bar were a “dynamic duo” during their The Jewish Federation pro- between 5 and 7:30pm when year of service with us and not much has changed vides many programs and ser- approximately 70 to 80 people since then. They have stayed very close friends and vices to our Jewish and general converged at Temple Emanu- about halfway through the evening, made a presen- communities. However, there El for a reception being held tation for us sharing their lives and all that has hap- is no program quite like that of for May Abudraham and Bar pened since they left us almost three years ago. Their our Partnership 2000 and now Halgoa – Young Emissaries presentation included pictures of both of them be- Partnership2gether Young Em- from 2013-14. May and Bar ar- coming officers in the military, (Bar is now a Captain issary program. It has become rived separately, but managed in the Israeli Navy and May is a 1st Lieut. in the Intel- the “Jewel” of our community. to have their visits overlap. ligence Forces) attending one another’s ceremonies, The ties that are made dur- Bar and May with Tal and Guy. Since they were here together seeing people from our community whenever any ing the ten to twelve months and had made such a huge im- of us travel to Israel and sharing their own travels that our Israeli Young Emis- pact on so many people in our around their country together, sometimes with many saries are here are unbreak- community, (as so many of the other emissaries from their year. Their presentation able. The connections continue long after they return Young Emissaries do), we at the Federation in coop- even included their first encounter with Tal and Guy, home, join the military, leave the military, get mar- eration with their past host families, decided it would our current and very wonderfulREUNION Young CONT. Emissaries ON PG 10 ried and have children of their own. There is no bet- be fitting to have a “Welcome Home” reception for 2 THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017 and it appears the award is not given out ev- Secret tunnels helped Mention & Menschen ery year. The National Storytelling Network is Jews escape Vilna NADINE LIPMAN dedicated to advancing the art of storytell- By Curt Schleier, Forward [email protected] ing – as a performing art, a process of cul- - tural transformation, and more. Leaves Award is presented to those members theyHolocaust use the latest Escape ground Tunnel,” radar the techniques latest episode to re-discover in the PBS an sciim- of the storytelling community whoThe have Talking made enceportant series piece “Nova” of Jewish follows history a group in Vilna. of scholars and engineers as outstanding contributions to the literary body of storytelling as authors, editors or collectors. - Napoleon called Vilna (now officially Vilnius) the “Jerusalem- late Hazzan Samuel and Dora Manchester who ofist thewho North.” encouraged It was his home students to Elijah to study ben science.Solomon Jews Zalman, made bet up Peninnah, of course, is the daughter of the ter40% known of a city as thatthe Vilnaboasted Gaon, 100 the synagogues, Talmudic scholarsix newspapers and Kabbal and the largest Jewish library in the world. But then came the Nazis. residedin New London!in the Jewish Federation office before it - was the Federation office (at 28 Channing St.) sity of Hartford, led the group that went to Vilna. Three years ago,Dr. he Richard said in Freund,a telephone professor interview of Jewish with historyThe Forward at the Univerthat he was approached by Dr. Jon Seligman, a noted archeologist with the Antiquities Authority of Israel, who wanted to discover if any Family Bat Mitzvah photo! Judy, Kirk, Robyn, remnants of the Great Synagogue of Vilna might be found. Max, and David Engel, and Elsie Fetterman An architectural masterpiece built almost 400 years ago, the traveled to Israel to celebrate the Bat Mitzvah synagogue was destroyed by the Nazis and, after the war, the So- of Eden Gold, daughter of Bethami (yes, she did viets built a school on the site. go to Beth El Nursery School with many of our Freund was a logical choice for this assignment. His team had children!) and Ben Gold, granddaughter of Vita already completed about 30 similar projects around the world and Richard Goldstein formerly of New Lon- — in Israel, Greece and Spain and elsewhere — using new non- don and great granddaughter of Elsie Fetter- invasive technology for subsurface mapping originally devel- man and the great niece of Judy and Kirk En- oped for the oil and gas industry. gel of East Lyme. She is also the big sister to In 2015, Freund raised enough cash to do a preliminary sur- Yemima and Asaf. Eden read the megillah as vey, which revealed that part of the synagogue remained at a includes the extended. VILNA CONT. ON PG 4 they celebrated Purim with everyone. Picture Peninnah Schram Candle Lighting for Eastern CT area I was excited to hear from Peninnah Sch- that she is the recipient of the 2017 Na- Friday, April 21 • 7:17 pm ram Friday, April 28 • 7:25 pm - Friday, May 5 • 7:32 pm tional Storytelling Network’s TALKING LEAVES Award!focusing This on the award Jewish acknowledges oral tradition. the publica Friday, May 12 • 7:40 pm tion of her books of Jewish folktales and essays Ahavath Achim 2nd Seder reallyI tried esteemed to find company,more online, including but I guess some we of aremy Rabbi Ken Alter Allison Collins Matt Bureau at amongfavorite the children’s first to authors/storytellers:know...!!! But she is joiningJoseph second Seder Ahavath Achim with 50 in atten- Bruchac, Jane Yolen (another MOT), Fred and dance. - Donald. Last year’s winner was Linda Goss, Remember to send in your subscription National Award Winner of the Council of Jewish of Jewish Federations as the Outstanding Small Cities Jewish newspaper. 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SSA Students visit seniors at Passover

On April 4, 2017, Solomon Schechter Academy students sang Passover and other songs for se- niors in our com- munity at Harbor View North and Atria Crossroads Place; the children enjoyed making cards and distributing gift bags provided by the JFEC to the seniors.

Coast Guard Academy cadets, faculty, and staff, as well as mem- bers of the local community and Jewish War Veterans enjoy the Seder in the Officer’s Club. The Seder was organized by 3rd Class cadet Jill Friedman and professor Ian Frommer and led by Jewish Federation of Eastern Connecticut Executive Director Jerry Fischer. The Hagaddah used was The Thirty Minute Seder, and song leading was provided by reitred professor Faye Ringel. 4 THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017 Allies knew of Holocaust in 1942 UK, US, Russia were aware of millions killed by Nazis, new book says, shedding Eden said in the statement. damning light on refusal to take in intention to exterminate the Jewish people,” refugees or try to halt slaughter said the Allies presumably learned of Nazi Germany’sPlesch, aactions University “when of they London discovered researcher, the By Times of Israel Staff concentration camps, but they made this public Allied forces were aware of the scale of the Ho- locaustRecently some released two years documents earlier than show previously that the commentpowers did in very December little to 1942.” save the Jews. assumed. They did little to stop the deaths or PleschIn March reiterated 1943, based the charge on reports, that thethe AlliedArch- rescue the victims. bishop of Canterbury William Temple, head of the Church of England, pleaded with the Brit- - ish government to accept Jewish refugees who berThe 1942 unsealed that two United million Nations Jews hadfiles beenshow mas- that were in danger of being massacred. the US, UK and Russia knew as early as Decem “In view of the massacres and starvation of - Jews and others in enemy and enemy-occupied sacreded on April and 18.millions more were at risk of being killed, Britain’s Independent newspaper report- cept refugees or move to prevent the slaughter. - Despite“The major that powers knowledge, commented the Allies [on did the not mass ac countries,”port for immediate Temple wrote measures, to the House on the of largestLords, murder of Jews] two-and-a-half years before it theand government most generous should scale… offer for providingits “fullest help sup and temporary asylum to persons in danger of massacre who are able to leave enemy and isIndependent. generally assumed,” Dan Plesch, author of the new book “Human Rights After Hitler,” told the Yet Viscount Cranborne, a minister in prime Anthony Eden told the British parliament, in a enemy-occupiedminister Winston countries.” Churchill’s war cabinet, said In December 1942, UK Foreign Secretary that Britain was not in a position to accept Soviet governments, that the Nazis were in the large numbers of refugees, and that while the statementprocess of on exterminating behalf of the the UK, Jews. the US Eden and saidthe government sympathized with the situation, it The JFEC organized a security briefing led by Doug Pesce of the that a similar statement was also being read out Dept. of Homeland Security, top left, and attended by all the area in Moscow and Washington at the same time. synagogues and SSA. Also in attendance (l. to r.) were detective “The German authorities, not content with had to take care of its own citizens first. Richard Morgan of Waterford, Chief Tom Davoren, and Lt. Eric denying to persons of Jewish race in all the whichPlesch’s was sealed book is for based 70 years. on an He archive said that from it Jenkins of Groton City. Ed Goldberg of Eversource helped connect territories over which their barbarous rule ex- thewas now-defunct through the U.N. intervention War Crimes ofCommission, Samantha JFEC and Homeland Security. tends, the most elementary human rights, are Powers, former US ambassador to the UN, that JT’s All Seasons Landscaping now carrying into effect Hitler’s oft-repeated he CONT. accessed FROM the PAGEfiles. 2 ESCAPE FROM VILNA subterranean level. After additional fund rais- two levels, where it discovered what they be- Call Joel Tomsky @ 860-271-9549 ing, the project went ahead last spring. 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“So instead of building up, they built down. of the Holocaust.” theWhen highest you came church into steeple,” the Great Freund Synagogue, said. you times).“Holocaust Escape Tunnel” premiered on Wednesday, April 19 (check local listings for Curt Schleier writes about pop culture for the wentEventually down two the flights team wasof stair able and to dig that down is what the Forward. basically saved it.” THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017 5 A Shared tradition: TBI PS Seventh Annual Community Seder By Paula Rosenberg Bell of old and new friends received their name tags and readings sit together as brothers and sisters in unity. before sitting at their selected From Psalm 133: Behold how good and how pleasant it is to- seats ready for the start of the Seder heralded by the sound of Teamwork that ran like clockwork at 39 Killingly Drive, Dan ielson,their 7th CT Annualsmoothly Educational took place Community on Sunday, AprilSeder 2, to 2017. ensure Temple that shofar. Beth Israel Preservation Society members arrived hours before- JoelWhile Rosenberg’s this is the blowing 7th Educa- of the nut Hill, MA carefully counted out three matzohs for each table tional Community Seder that everythingbefore placing was them ready into for thea 2 foldsPM start: of each Glenna covering, Snyder Vinnie of Chest Lof- -

- TBIit be PStoo has long, hosted, too short? the butterDid we fredo of Middletown, CT aka the “Charoses King” was in the TBI flieshave were enough still desserts?present... Would kitchen creating yet another batch of his charoses, Naomi Wein er of Brooklyn, CT and Dora Glinn of Middletown, CT organized about the ancient traditions of coming together to learn, to the name tags and the reading assignments, Joel Rosenberg peopleand customs leave as knowingwell as the more newer contemporary ones (yes the (President Emeritus) of Brooklyn, CT and Norm Berman (TBI orange, olive, and banana)? As everyone settled in, Norm Ber- remember. PS2017 President) Haggadah of (compiled, Chestnut Hill, written, MA checked and edited the by sound Norm system Ber- man and Arthur Fox (Lexington, MA ) led participants (includ- ask, to seek, to share, and to- as Sheri Abrams, also of Chestnut Hill, placed a TBI PS Passover - theWhen desserts!) asked there what was partici a con- man) at each place setting. College students, Connor Rosenberg ingthroughout TBI founding the afternoon. member and The TBI Haggadah PS advisor blended 102 year traditional old Ray pantssensus liked that the they best enjoyed (other thanhav- and Molly Corvello, both of Brooklyn, CT worked rapidly, com Gawendo!)and contemporary in a Yiddish songs song, in Yiddish, the first Hebrew, of many Zulu/Xhosa songs sprinkled with ing the opportunity to learn, to pleting and checking off items needing to be done from the “To experience, and to participate. Do” list prepared by Paula Rosenberg Bell of Norwich, CT. Marty - And in response to the most Weiner of Brooklyn, CT prepped the coffee and double-checked folk songs, Black spirituals, songs about freedom, blessings, to be sure all the Passover desserts (including Vegan and Gluten poems, and stories into the telling of our shared history of Pe- Free)of horseradish, made by Naomisalted water,and Paula parsley, were endive, undercover. charoses set on each sach. The Four Questions were asked by students from Pomfret askedJoin us, question: you’ll learn Yes, why we we’ve will Tables set? Check! Seder plates filled and ready? Check! Bowls School (Pomfret, CT). As Albert Einstein said, “Question every beadded here a againbanana... for Pesach 2018! thing!” and so we did with sixteen more questions for which we Interested in visiting Tem- table? Check! Wine in carafes on each table? Check! Sparking yet have no answers but seek and strive to find... ple Beth Israel? Our next event grape juice on the tables? Check! Candles and matches? Check! Voices popped up around the room. Members of TBI PS joined- is on April 29. It is a Temple Miriam cups filled with water and set on each table? Check! Cups local clergy (Rev. Mary Apicella of the Federated Church of- - for Elijah filled with wine and set on each table? Check! Each- Christ, Brooklyn, CT, Rev. Jonathan Chapman of Westfield Con thingtable hadwas an ready orange, and banana, people andwere olive? beginning Check! to Whoa arrive. ~ orangesFriends gregationalChurch, Danielson, Church, CT)Danielson, and their CT, Rev. congregants, Jane Hale representativesof Trinity Epis BethMovie Israelnight. PreservationThe evening will So and olives OK ~ but bananas? Oh yes... bananas! By 1:30, every copal Church, Brooklyn, CT and Father John O’Neill of St. James- cietybegin Presents: at 6 p.m. Dinner with a and Yom a - fromlocal thecommunities Killingly-Brooklyn and guests Interfaith from around Council, New State England Representa in the tive Daniel Rovero and Mrs. Rovero along with residents of the HaShoahthe Holocaust Ve-Hagevurah and the Heroism Re membrance,followed by an Remembrance Italian (vegetar- of retellingbut we will of the all Passovershare the story. fundamental To quote teachings a line in thisabout year’s how TBI to ian with a GF/V option) dinner PS Haggadah: “Our journeys have taken us in different directions - treat each other and live together in peace.”Custom It was Tub &an Shower afternoon madein. Italian by chefs desserts Vinnie will Loffredo, com- Ruby Glass Enclosures Martyplete the Weiner, meal! andThe movieRich Dvor doc- CO., INC • Design & Installation umentary, My Italian Secret: • All-Glass Enclosures The Forgotten Heroes will SERVING SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT FOR OVER 60 YEARS follow dessert. The cost for the Expert Mirror Design & evening is $15/person. Seat- FULLSERVICE GLASS SPECIALISTS Installation ing IS limited, so reserve your • Visit Our Showroom seat April 20 by sending an email to Naomi 151 Jefferson Avenue • New London, CT 06320 WeinerNO ([email protected] THAN Phone (860) 442-0373 • Fax (860) 442-1356 com). She will give you infor- mation on how to submit your

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Saturday 10:00-4:00 6 THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017 Schechter Project Night By Laura Frommer, were surprised to learn that a special to the Leader ten-year-old plant might only Whether it be a life-sized be an inch and a half tall. Stu- camel created out of paper dents also investigated cam- mache and recycled materi- els of Middle Eastern deserts als, a beautiful desert mural, and learned that camels store a Bedouin tent, or a giant col- fat in their humps rather than orful green cactus, there were water. Grade 5 students compared Night at Solomon Schechter and contrasted desert charac- many highlights of Project teristics in the form of a wall Night focused on the desert size Venn Diagram. They stud- Academy.theme and Thisfamily year, and Projectfriends ied the climate, people and were amazed by the science culture, plants, animals and projects, social studies maps, physical features of deserts. Additionally, they graphed and more. weather temperatures across beautiful artwork displays, 24 world deserts. the Saguaro cactus and its life They compared these des- K-1 students learned about erts in terms of rain fall, tem- desert animals. The class peratures, and location. Stu- asconducted a “cactus experiments hotel” for many to dents created an oversized map demonstrate cactus adapta- tions such as water absorption and retention, and the role of the the world’s deserts. Fifth grad- anders also identified had fun the sharing location their of also focused on arachnids and compared their characteristics to desert inventions for the Con- spines in protecting it from animals, wind, and sun. K-1 students- necticut Invention Convention sults in both studies. with their friends and family. determineOur Grade similarities 3-4 students and examined differences. the extremeThey graphed harsh theirclimate re For Judaics, the children that can be found in North American deserts. They discovered learned about Bedouin cul- the unique ways that plants and animals have adapted to survive ture and tasted Bedouin foods, in the desert habitat. For example, plants that grow in a desert, store water in their stem and grow very spaced out so that their pillows, and created animals madeof the Bedouin deserts that blankets lined and the Temple Emanu-El them from being eaten by animals and their waxy outer covering wall before entering a large roots can extend to find water. Cacti have spines that protect- Bedouin tent. Religious School Seder ent desert plant and ani- By Barbara Kallan, special to the Leader keepsmal. Detailed moisture watercolor from escaping. Each student researched a differ - paintings depicted their plant while life size ani- mals were created out of On Sunday April 2, the students of Temple Emanu-El Reli recycled materials. Card- gious School celebrated the upcoming holiday of Passover. The board cacti were created Students in Grades K-2 had their Model Seder, conducted by the school and coordinated by Thea Johnson and Amy Orci. along with detailed mu- Rabbi Marc Ekstrand and Cantorial Soloist Sherry Barnes. The rals to show the desert Passover ingredients were provided by parents of students in Drum Tales program which was presented by Musical IQ Drum during the day as well as Tales from New Jersey. The school was divided into two groups at nighttime. All students had the opportunity to participate in a Passover Students also graphed the slow growth of the It was an interesting and exciting morning for both groups. This Saguaro cacti found in Pre-K-2 and grades 3-8 and each had a 45-minute interactive the Sonoran Desert. They program using drums as parts of the Passover story were retold. provides money for Cultural Events for our children. programPhotos was by Armi made Rowe. possible by the Ruth Joan Brody Fund which Centrally located at CAMP Williams School, New London ges 3-8 Boys & Girls a s ages 9-12 L neer E s Pio AN ISRA Girl G H uge Savin gs on ON THE BAY JULY 3-21, 2017 Tha tuitio nks to n the L Monday - Friday eiser Foun :30 datio 9:00-3:30 or 9:00-12 n FOR ALL YOUR REAL ESTATE NEEDS • • • • Best Camp! • • • • nd! • Arou Direct: 860-443-4400 Cell: 860-625-5255 chabadect.com/cgi Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.CallTheHausmann.com 860.437.8000 Blog: CTHouseMan.com THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017 7

Community remembers Henny Simon CONT. FROM PAGE 1 and moved her sister-in-law’s family into the house. around the city Henny would have the driver pull Abram and a German antique dealer opened a shop over and she would tell me about the families she theShannon car crash. Saglio, I was one up of in our the Encountering Holocaust Resource Survi- Center with Nickie Paddila, our Coordinator, and - The citizens of Hannover honestly and sin- - lyas partners received on word the thatground Henny’s floor of father the house. was alive, in knewcerely as wanted a child toand repent young for teenager. the treatment their vors teachers from East Lyme High School. I took Shanghai,They were and planning had gotten to go a visa to Palestine to America. but Theirfinal Jewish citizens had endured during the war. They the call downstairs at Mimi’s desk. Ben said “Jer plans changed and in November 1949 they departed built a major monument to the victims, inscribed ry,about you to had deliver. better sit down” and I leaned my hand on Mimi’s desk because I sensed the news he was would have preferred them to use the word “mur- for the US on the troop transport the names of those killed during the war (Henny thatI went they had back better up to sit the down HRC Generalgreeted byJ.H. her McRae, father. and arrived in - and told Nickie and Shannon NewIn May, York 1950 on Thanksgiving they bought a to farm be dered”),ful way. For and one they commemoration invited the survivors they lined back 1001 to told them and we all burst into in Colchester, CT, and moved with markyahrzeit significant candles anniversariesin the shape ofin a veryJewish meaning star in and Nickie cried “No!” Then - I Ludwig to the farm. They raised front of City Hall. ing. their family there, and that was For the 75th anniversary 1001 roses, each tears.Henny, I think and we allare otherstill weep sur- where Henny lived until she died. tagged with the name of one of the deportees vivors of the Holocaust, had Henny had several goals, and were placed in the shape of a Jewish star in the something stolen from them. she achieved them all. City Center, in front of the Opera House and next They had not lost their lives, She stayed alive although Hit- to the Memorial. The roses were placed by the but they had lost years of nor- ler tried to kill her. students of the local high school. mal routines, normal relation- She married, reunited with her Henny, during her trips, had grown very close ships, and normal develop- father, and raised a wonderful to many in the city, and in city and county gov- ment. They faced death every family in Colchester, CT. ernment, who strove to preserve the memory of day, and the only answer that She overcame tragedies: the murder of her mother, the untime- a Jewish community in Hannover. They too wept about how or why they sur- ly death of her first and second theat her Jews passing who were and killed,they published and to help notice reestablish of her they all offer when queried husbands, and the death of her death, translated in this edition of the Leader, in son Jacob “Jake” Markiewicz on their city newspaper. vived is “luck”. Henny Simon as a little girl in Han- July 25, 2016. HerWhile father, Henny Ludwig, did have had manluck,- nover She told her story so that oth- itaged was to notget alwaysa visa to good Shanghai luck. ers would learn the consequences andHenny’s the catharsis final of goal telling had her been story achieved. over and over She, and left immediately after being released from of hatred, bullying, and prejudice before they had throughto students the in efforts Connecticut of the and citizens in Germany, of was Hannover, jail. He had delayed leaving Germany sooner be- to experience them first hand. able to say to me as we left Hannover to return to cause, as a WW I German war hero (recipient of And she reclaimed her love for her home in the Iron Cross), he could not believe the Germans Hannover, Germany. would exterminate the Jews. He went to China via - America,can rest in “I peace. feel at home again in Hannover.” Italy, and his Italian visa is dated April 8, 1940. panied her to Hannover this past December to com- AndI think we shenow was have lucky, a goal: and to determined…shecarry on the sto- On December 4, 1941 Henny and her mother memorate...which isthe the 75 storyth anniversary I know best of thebecause round I accomup and ries of all those listed at the top of this essay, and expulsion of the Jews of that let the world always remember, passports to China. They would follow husband city. Six survivors of the 1001 and never forget the Shoah. wereand father called and to theescape police Germany. station Onto pick December up their 7 May we, and her companion alive, but only one, Henny Si- Ben Cooper, all have the strength war, and Hitler rescinded all visas. They were Jews deported to Riga remained and the courage to continue do- Japantrapped. attacked On December Pearl Harbor, 15, the 1001 America Jews declared remain- if she was escorted by a com- ing so. ing in Hannover were rounded up and deported mon,panion. was So able the toCity make and the County trip, - of Hannover paid for me to go with Henny to commemorate Henny’s final toand the buried ghetto in in a Riga. mass Henny’s grave there. mother Henny, was mur with that fateful day in 1941. goal had been dered in the Bikernieki Forest outside of Riga Hannover had been totally achieved. She, survived the war. destroyed by the Allied bomb- herAfter close the friend war each Margie of them Israel tried Strauss, to regain “Putti”, their ings, It had been an industrial through the ef- footing and the trajectory of their lives. And all center and important to the forts of the citi- the survivors in our community, the active wit- zens of Hannover, nesses and the private souls, did. But Henny was obliterated. When the Han- and the catharsis Germannoverians war contemplated effort, so how it to was Henny wanted to recapture her teenage years, rebuild the city they thought of of telling her sto- different.her happy childhood, and her home in Hannover. literally moving the city to the ry over and over The years after the war were not safe for her. side and building an entirely to students in new city. Instead they decided Connecticut and where she was right after the war. And she was a to rebuild as it was before the in Germany, was Jews were still being shot and killed in Poland,- war, preserving each street and ened several times with execution for trying to street name. able to say to me German Jew, spoke only German, and was threat When Henny returned to as we left Han- prisoner as a Nazi. nover to return “pass”Henny as a and Jew her while husband she was Abram mistakenly returned taken to around. There were plaques to America, “I feel Hannover she knew her way mother’s pre-war friend and cleaning woman, the homes owned and occu- at home again in Hannoverand began to in settle 1946, in found Hannover. Mrs. She Szamlevski, and her hus her- setpied in by the Jewish sidewalk Hannoverians in front of Hannover.” band bought a burned-out house in Hannover before the war. As we drove Henny Simon as a teenager in Han- nover. 8 THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017 ‘Am I My Brother’s Keeper?’ - Sister M. Michele Some stories need to be told. Some need to be - retold. This is one of those stories. It is not shared for sensational purposes, or for money, or for at- feredMrs. Simon remains will forever.” not be ableSur - vivorsto divorce of the themselves Holocaust from like the emotional wounds tention for attention’s sake. It is told for human ity’smany sake, lessons for justice’sabout the sake. preciousness History is of useless life, the to their pain is a light to all us if we refuse to learn from it. This story offers inflictedothers. Light upon give them, sight, but it - also gives warmth; read- significance of suffering, particularly in the light ofabout mystery. them, The less mystery do we have of life any and real suffering control soover of have their minds enlight- tenthem. leaves Life canus feeling be both helpless. strong andSo little fragile. do we know ersened of andstories their like hearts hers will - generate a tender compas- ishes in us a hope for things beyond what we pres- entlySuffering possess. can overwhelm and drain us, yet nour together to put forth all the The Shoah (Holocaust) is not one big tragic sion, and the two will work event in history. It is rather a host of millions of sure such events don’t hap- tragic events - real stories of real individuals: men, effortpen again. necessary to make women, children, each precious, each with a heart We, all of us, carry the and a soul. Each was reduced to a voiceless, power- responsibility. We are all potential victims of hatred and persecution. A lesson lessmade victim. voiceless. Now, and from this time on, stories like learned from the Holo- thisHenny one will Simon’s speak story out withfor those all the who pain were and once loss caust is that we are all vul- Henny Simon and Ben Cooper. photo by Tim Martin, The Day (with permission) and mystery which it enfolds, will be shared and

, and that the lessons learned from the Holocaust nerable if we don’t all work did during the Holocaust in Europe not that many repeatedare renewed to ensure in each that generation. the truth is always known to abolish even the first stirrings of hatred. Like the learned,years ago. death will not ever strike so cruelly as it blood sprinkled over the two doorposts and lintel of - everysign to house future at generations,the first Passover so that Ritual, with let the the lessons blood - Cardinal Raphael Merry del Val once wrote: of those who were sacrificed in the Shoah serve as a In 1987, Pope John Paul II addressed the Jewish “Suffering itself passes, but the fact of having suf Leadersitself at thein Warsaw, center ofPoland the attention saying: “Today of the thenations peo pleof the of Israel,world, perhapsabove all more because than of ever this before, terrible finds ex- perience, through which you have become a warn- ing voice for all humanity, for all nations, all the powers of the world, all systems and every person. More then anyone else, it is precisely you who have become this saving warning. - ticular vocation, showing yourselves to be still heirs of thatI think election that in to this which sense God you is faithful. continue This your is yourpar mission in the contemporary world before the peo- ples, the nations, all of humanity, the Church. And in the Church all peoples and nations feel united to

Henny Simon’s mission, our mission, is to re- youmember. in this We mission.” must not (June tire 14, in sharing1987). that remem-

the wounds of the Holocaust, must in charity, still brance.reach out We, and who have have a deep not and experienced sincere compassion first-hand

forand those ignorance who didis fertile suffer. ground Stories that like easilythis mustbreeds not Formal welcome growhatred. cold; The indifference memory of theis a painsymptom must burnof ignorance, in our hearts and be passed on in its fullness. Not a pain of for Henny self-pity or bitterness, but one that can help hearts Henny Simon in Hannover, Germany, December 2016. Above (center next to Henny) is High Mayor Stefan Schostok to heal, to feel love again, and to find peace. “Am I together with the entire group involved My Brother’s Keeper?” Love alwaysSr. M. answers Michele, “yes.”SCMC in organizing Henny’s last visit to Han- May 2002 nover. The entire group gathered in the City Hall’s reception chamber for coffee and cake and formal remarks Editor’s Note: This is the introduction to Henny’s by the mayor. Mayor Schostok spoke book, “Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” first published of the imperative to honestly confront in Spring 1985 and revised and republished by the and examine the Nazi period and to Strochlitz Holocaust Resource Center in January apologize for Hannover’s treatment of 2009, Linda Christensen, Coordinator its Jews before and during the war. THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017 9 Hannover, Germany mourns Henny The following appeared in the Hannoversche Al- dent legmeine Zeitung Neve Presse on April 8 and 9, 2017 Regional Capital Han- announcing the death of Henny Simon. nover, Stefan Schostock, Lead Mayor theRabbi German Susan for Schein,publication Director, in the Zachs Leader. Hillel House, 3. Mourning for Wit- Connecticut College was kind enough to translate ness to History Henny Si- 1. We mourn our dear friend Henny Simon mon In December, she once again had come to the city nee Rosenbaum born 7/15/25 in Hannover, died of her birth. Of the 1001 4/4/17Our thoughts in Colchester, are with CT (USA).her family. Jews of Hanover, who on OnHannover, behalf of April all who 6, 2017 knew her December 15, 1941, were

Simon was the only survi- 2. With great sorrow, we have learned that the deportedvor who could to Riga, still Henny travel to the commemoration. July 15, 1925 in Hannover died on April 4, 2017, in Holocaust survivor Henny Simon, born Rosenbaum Holocaust survivor even a car accident. Henny Simon was among the 69 sur- “It’sthen. a The farewell,” petite but said ener- the Colchester,vivors of the CT deportation (USA) at the of age 1001 of 91 Jewish as the men result and of women from Hannover on December 15, 1941, to among others, with young geticrefugees. woman Now, spokeat the age here, of Despite her unfortunate/sorrowful experienc- es,the HennyRiga ghetto. Simon devoted time to understanding/ where she had lived for de- education and reconciliation, especially with young 91, she has died in the USA, people. And third we send you a pretty photo. It’s a remi- The regional capital and Hannover region very cades.in dialogue: Regional “She did President an incredible amount for recon- niscence of our last visit in Colchester at Henny’s much will miss Henny Simon and her regular vis- Hauke Jager honored Henny’s willingness to engage farm. With this picture, we will remember our amaz- its to Hannover and will preserve her honorable ing friend Henny. memory. ciliation.”Below is an email that Anke & Jens sent to Jerry Best wishes for soon Pesach, Our condolences to her family. upon hearing of Henny’s death. Regards, Anke & Jens Hannover Region, Hauke Jagau, Regional Presi- Dear Jerry, Now we will send you our commemoration letter for PS. Please, send us your films and photos with Henny, perhaps you will print it. Henny from the December-trip to Hannover. We And we send the obituaries from missed them. us, Henny’s friends, and from the President of the Region Hannover, Hauke Jagau, and the Lord Mayor 1. of Hannover, Stefan Schostok, in Dr. Anke Sawahn & Dr. Jens Gundlach our newspapers too; besides a -Fon: Historikerin- +49 (0)0511-484119 short report on Henny. Wilhelm Raabe-Weg 7, D 30453 Hannover

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2. Stepping stones placed in front of Jewish homes in Hannover and other cities in Germany to mark where Jews once resided. 10 THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017

InspirationalCompiled by Matthew Shulman – orthoughts simply the well-being – of a community from is at stake, transcends Elie it. Suffering is Wieselnot something one chooses. neutrality is criminal, for it aids and abets the oppressor It is a persistent mystery and we therefore try to MEMORY and not his victim.” [From the Kingdom of Memory] make something of it. But, I repeat, it would be against tradition to choose suffering.” (Evil & Exile) “Remember: a conscience that does not speak up when “There is no memory without conscience, just as there injustices are being committed is betraying itself. A mute “When one ethnic group is humiliated, humanity is is no conscience without memory.” [Evil & Exile] conscience is a false conscience. [From the Kingdom of threatened.” [Evil & Exile] Memory] “In remembering (Jewish victims), we remember to- day’s victims, too. We remember our hunger so as to eliminate starvation. We remember our anguish so s EVIL to proclaim the right of men and women everywhere to SILENCE live without fear.” [From the Kingdom of Memory] “Hatred is Evil and Evil dwells in hatred. The two go “Everything raises the question of speech and silence. hand in hand. They partake of the same phenomenon. Inge: “It’s human nature to forget what hurts you, Whether we speak or remain silent is always a matter of (Yet) evil is sometimes done not in its own name but isn’t it? Without it life would be intolerable, wouldn’t choice. … The man who keeps silent is not really against in the name of love. … The first thing God did in Cre- it?” speech; he has simply chosen silence. … Speech alone can ation was to divide the higher from the lower waters. Let good be good and evil be evil; then we know that Malkiel: “Yes, but the Jews live by other rules. For a take a stand against speech.” [Evil & Exile] we must serve one and combat the other. So, it is very Jew, nothing is more important than memory. He is serious when evil takes on the appearance of good.” bound to his origins by his memory. It is memory that “How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent?” [Night [Evil & Exile] keeps him connected to Abraham, Moses and Rabbi Trilogy] Akiba. If he denies memory, he will have denied his “We have talked about war, hunger, sham, torture. own honor.” [The Forgotten] “The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it This is more than the mere absence of Good. It is is silence. It kills impulse and passion, it kills desire and Evil. Evil is not passive, but active. It is self-assertive, BEARING WITNESS the memory of desire. It invades, dominates and reduces and it strives to conquer. If it is not halted, if it is not man to slavery. And once a slave of silence, you are no vanquished, it can triumph, just as desert can triumph longer a man.” [The Testament] over fertile land, or the sea over a sandy beach.” [Exile “To be Jewish is to take up the burden of the past and & Evil] include it in our concerns … and our obligation in the present. … I love Passover because it remains for “Once evil is unleashed, anything is possible.” [Twi- me a cry against insensitivity” [From the Kingdom INDIFFERENCE light] of Memory] “No one has the right not to listen.” [The Forgotten] “When human lives are endangered, when human AM YISRAEL dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivi- “ … How (can) a human being remain indifferent(?) The ties become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are executioners I understood; also the victims, though with “(Being a Jew) means belonging to a culture, a tradi- persecuted because of their race, religion, or political more difficulty. But the others, all the others, those who tion, a religion, and above all to a collective memory. views, that place must—at that moment—become the were neither for nor against, those who sprawled in pas- To be a Jew is to participate in the collective destiny of center of the universe.” [Night Trilogy] sive patience … those who were permanently and merely Israel.” [Evil & Exile] spectators – all those were closed to me, incomprehen- “I had seen on television what the Cambodian sible. And, as often happens, I saw all those neutrals in “… To be a Jew, for me, is first to accept (his) destiny as refugees looked like when they arrived in Thailand – a single face: the spectator across from the synagogue. a Jew, and then to choose it. … He is characterized as walking skeletons with somber eyes, crazy with fear. The others were only reflections of him. Copies.” [Town much by his quest as by his faith, his silence as much … How could a Jew like myself not go to the aid of an Beyond the Wall] as his outcry. He defines himself more by what troubles entire people? It is because nobody came forward to him than by what reassures him. … To me, the Jew help me that I felt it my duty to help these victims.” “To be indifferent – for whatever reason – is to deny not and his questioning are one. … To be a Jew, there- [From the Kingdom of Memory] only the validity of existence, but also its beauty. Betray, fore, is to ask a question – a thousand questions, yet and you are a man; torture your neighbor, you’re still a always the same – of society, of others, of oneself, of “Rejected by mankind, the condemned do not go so man. Evil is human, weakness is human; indifference is death, and of God. Why and how survive in a universe far as to reject it in turn. Their faith in history remains not.” [Town Beyond the Wall] which negates you?” [One Generation After] unshaken, and one may well wonder why. They do not despair. The proof: they persist in surviving – not only Indifference, then, is not only a sin, it is a punishment. “A Jew may be alone but never solitary, for he remains to survive, but to testify. The victims elect to become And this is one of the most important lessons of this integrated within a timeless community, however witnesses.” [One Generation After] outgoing century’s wide-ranging experiments in good invisible or without geographic or political reality. … and evil. [“Perils of Indifference”; Speech at White House, he expresses and identifies himself in historic terms. 1999] Jews help one another to prolong their common his- tory, to explore and enrich their common destiny, to CHOICE enlarge the domain of their collective memory.” [The SUFFERING Testament] “It is (the divine component within) man who must “Does suffering have any meaning? And if an individual’s save man. That is the price of the freedom God has To mark Yom Hashoah this year, given us. This freedom comes from God, but it is up suffering has meaning, would that imply that the suf- to man to lay claim to it.” [Evil & Exile] fering of a people, a community, has an even higher we have chosen to publish meaning? … The answer lies in the Jewish tradition quotes from Elie Wiesel who “At critical times, at moments of peril, no one has the which denies the value of suffering. We do not believe had ties to our community right to abstain, to be prudent. When the life or death that suffering can create or engender anything that THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017 11 against those forces? We are learning that we are I decided to sell my Possibility helpless in asserting our rights By Tammy Stoner Pinkerton in corporate America. Yes, the home – Part 3 media can provide some sup- By Geoff Hausmann, special to the Leader United Airlines port, but the media can also In the last article, you were informed on be bullied into staying quiet. Is how to prepare your home to sell it and how to prepare it for showings. In this article, you will learn some of the obstacles that you may needThe to recentfear next. spectacle The loss that of our occurred freedom on accompanied the United with Airlines po- Unitedgetting Airlinesa host of advertising free publicity. on or may not be able to overcome. flight,lice support. just demonstrated a tiny example of what American’s television?It’s negative United publicity airlines today, is - Zillow – when it forcibly removed a passenger from the plane due to home. They compare the Zestimate with the sales price. Zesti- mate is only Many a computer Buyers algorithm check out determining Zillow prior your to visiting home value your United Airlines established a horrific example for all of us, but turn it around, and Unit problem in many ways. It chose the worst. Images of a paying edprice won went a significantdown one percent. amount bathrooms. It may try to compare your home to a property that Unitedpassenger Airlines dragged overbooking with blood the running flight. It down could his have face, solved through the of free advertising. The stock the aisles by the police is a very bad public relations campaign. It The abused passenger runs by looking at the square footage and number of bedrooms and - is a horrid example of human and civil rights abuse. This citizen United can recover in a day. er hand, many Sellers value certain characteristics at a higher - practice from credibility at- is blocks away or even miles. The computer program is unable toworth know such if there as high are end granite appliances. countertops or laminate. On the oth putable fact. the risk of losing his medical paid for his flight. He had a right not to leave it. That is an indis- that in one day. He might not Tax Assessment – Your town compares your home to every rate America accompanied with full police support. 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course for youngster and tweens; Arts & Crafts; THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017 13 WILLIAM MANDELBAUM the Ahavath Chesed Cemetery, lege in Schnectady; and his - Bloomfield - ford. (Marci) Portny, Brian (Tanya) - 273 Boston Post Road, Water Portny,and 6 great-grandchildren; Elyse (Dan) Brocks, El- brotherews and Theodorenieces. Zabinsky of Hospital. William “Bill” Mandelbaum, 77, of in his memory may be made to Ben Atkind and Mikah Atkind- BocaSam Raton, was along a loving with and neph de- Bloomfield, passed away April 10, 2017, at Hartford CityIn Collegelieu of flowers, Alumni donations Associa- voted husband. He met Lillian of the late Herbert and Mary (Levine) Mandelbaum. tion, Temple Emanu-El in Wa- ena Portny, Jacob Portny, Cha HeBill was attended born Jan. The 5, School 1940, in of Brooklyn, Engineering N.Y., at the CCNY son terford, or to Hartford Hospi- lotte Portny, Zachary Portny, where he graduated with honors with a Bachelor of Madeline Brocks and Cooper at a Jewish dance in Brooklyn, Science in mechanical engineering. After graduation, (giving.harthosp.org/donate). Brocks.Helen was also predeceased by Newyears Yorklater on when June they 26, 1948, were he started his career at Hamilton Standard, then a divi- tal Kidney Transplant Services Besides her husband Ruddy, “justwhen kids.” he was They 20 andmarried she wastwo Sons Funeral Home, 12 Ocean her sister, Adele. 18. They shared 69 wonderful Obituaries in design for close to 48 years before retiring to do fur- Ave.,The New Thomas London L.assisted Neilan the & herGraveside son, Michael Services Atkind, will and be years together and were the sionther of consulting United Aircraft, at Hamilton during for which another time seven he worked years. family with the arrangements. held on Wednesday, April 19 world to each other. Lillian While at Hamilton, he helped to design many advanced Online condolences may be at 1pm at Hebrew Benevolent was the love of his life. systems used on present day aircraft. expressed by visiting www. Sam was a loving and de- He was awarded numerous patents related to his neilanfuneralhome.com voted father. His goal in life Cemetery #3 on Middle Rd., was providing for his fam- - HELEN ATKIND Preston, CT. ily. He thought of himself as field.ments. In He 1994, furthered he was his presented education withby receiving the United a Master’s Technologies Degree NORWICH – In lieu of flowers, please President’s Award in recognition of his lifelong career achieve makeCenter, contributions 8 Mahan Dr., in Norwich, Helen’s Frequently during his career, he used his expertise to moti- Helen Atkind, nameCT 06360. to the Rose City Senior “street smart” and a practical invate engineering middle school science and from high Rensselaer school students Polytechnic to advance University. their 95,on Saturday,wife of the April late 15,Rutherford 2017 in To leave an online condo- man.a business Sam worked that he as ran a furrier in his “Ruddy”Newton, MA. Atkind, passed away lence, please visit www.chur- in New York City and bought Helen was born in New Lon- chandallen.com to giving his family a good life. knowledgehis peers at in Hamilton science and and engineering by all that came through in contact the CPEP with Science him. don, CT on January 12, 1922 “free”When time. Sam He was was incommitted his 30’s, FairFive andyears Engineering ago he helped Day in Programs. starting a He CCNY was Alumni well respected Club for byall to the late Isadore and Sarah SAMUEL he lived out one of his dreams, alumni living in Connecticut. With his help, the club has grown living by the ocean. He moved from 13 members to 130. Bill was recently selected as the 2017 ZABINSKY from NYC to Lido Beach, New CCNY Alumni of the Year. (Kemper)April 4, 1948 Diamond. in New London, Helen Groton - marriedCT. Together her belovedthey raised Ruddy 3 chil- on 89, died peacefully on Friday, mother and sister’s and broth- dren. Samuel Zabinsky,- York.er’s families Shortly moved thereafter, nearby, his An active member of the Bloomfield community, he was the Helen was a stay at home pital in New London, CT after with the other four brothers past president of the Bloomfield Dance Club, the past treasurer mom tending to a meticulous Aprila year 14, of 2017medical at issues L&M Hos and not more than an hour away. ofserved the Indian as president Guides and and as Indian a referee, Princess an assistant Long House, coach one with of the house and providing a loving challenges. He was born on After retiring from the fur co-founders of the Bloomfield Jr. Soccer Association where he nurturing environment for her business, Sam needed to stay - NY, the son of Harry and Anna Bloomfield Little League, and he served as treasurer, producer, June 15, 1927 in Brooklyn, heading up maintenance at andyears cameraman of community for service. Bloomfield Access Television. In 1987, he family.her strudel An avid and baker, mandelbread. her fam Sam is survived by his lov- active. He went back to work, wasHe awarded was always the Bloomfield fond of saying Home “One Town wife, Hero one award job, and for one his ily Helen always is looked survived forward by her to (Levinson)ing wife, Lillian Zabinsky. (Singer) Zabin- until the age of 75. Besides the Baldwin Public Library, NY,- his wife June of Waltham, MA Arlene Bohn and her husband ple, Sam enjoyed travel, dining house”.Mandelbaum; a son, Evan Mandelbaum; a daughter, Jennifer children; Richard Atkind and sky;Gary Bohn his children,of Ledyard, daughter CT and workingout, playing and pinochle, being with support- peo Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Ruthann (Friedman) ing Special Olympics for his anda brother; Donna Burton Portny Diamond and her CT; his grandson Simon Bohn, Rock;A graveside a sister, service Isabell was Mandelbaum; held at 1 p.m. and Thursday, four grandchildren, April 13 at husbandand his wife Stan Florence of Randolph, of NY, NY,NJ; son Neil Zabinsky of Groton,- zabinsky CONT. ON PG 14 Hunter and Marnie Rock, Sara and Max Mandelbaum. and 5 grandchildren; Jonathan who is studying at Union Col Byles-MacDougall THOMAS L. NEILAN & SONS Funeral Service, Inc (860) 442-0343 Funeral Directors Dr. Brian G. Mann & (888) 736-7036 Associates, Optometrists Complete Eye Care Daniel W. Byles Reid B. Burdick 12 Ocean Avenue 48 Grand Street BY APPOINTMENT OR John D. MacDougall New London, CT 06320 Niantic, CT 06357 WALK-INS WELCOME Anthem BCBS, Mohegan Sun, Byles Memorial Home Byles-Groton Memorial Home 860-443-1871 860-739-6112 99 Huntington Street 310 Thames Street HealthNet, Foxwoods, Tricare, New London, Conn. 06320 Groton, Conn. 06340 Aetna, Eyemed, ConnectiCare, & other insurances accepted. Norwich Hebrew Benevolent 860.442.0380 Association Waterford Commons, Waterford CT P.O. Box 663 Jewett City, CT 06351 (across from Best Buy) Our Services Include: Hebrew Cemeteries #1, #2, and #3 Comprehensive Eye Exams, 136 Sachem Street Interfaith Cemetery #4 Extensive Range of Frames, Norwich CT 06360 Lenses & Contact Lenses Memorial Cremains Cemetery 860-889-2374 Evaluation & Treatment of: Synagogue Affiliation Not Required Adult & Pediatric Functional Vision, Fax 860-886-2396 Vision Related Reading Problems, 860-887-0896 Complete Ocular Health 14 THE JEWISH LEADER, APRIL 21, 2017 HENNY SIMON, SURVIVOR, ADVANCED HOLOCAUST EDUCATION Colchester - In addition to and companion, Ben Cooper and his family. away tragically on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 4, 2017, from sharing her story, In addition to her parents, spouses and son; injuries sustained Henny in a motor(Rosenbaum vehicle ) accident. Markiewicz Simon, passed Henny volun- she was predeceased by her brother, Hans Born July 15, 1925, and raised in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Ger- teered for Meals on many, she was the daughter of the late Ludwig and Jenny (Jaco- Wheels, American - - Rosenbaumwicz. in 1940; and her brother-in-law mobiles, was a Life andFuneral sister-in-law, services Leonard were held and Friday, Greta April Markie 7, in bowitz) Rosenbaum.of being Jewish, she and her mother were deported by RedMember Cross of Hadas- Blood the Sanctuary of Congregation Ahavath Achim, After the outbreak of World War II for only the sake sah, the Sisterhood Colchester. Burial followed in Ahavath Achim she and her mother were imprisoned until being moved of the Congregation the Nazis and sent to the Ghetto in Riga, Latvia, were Ahavath Achim, - 1941. From November of 1943 through January 1945, and the Board of Memorialcouraged toPark, consider Taintor a contributionHill Road, Colchester. in Henny’s toshe the endured Strasdenhof the atrocities Work Camp of the in RigaStutthof in December Concentra- of the Strochlitz Ho- memoryIn lieu and of flowers,honor to thoseone of who the following wish are enor- ganizations that were so very dear to her: the - She leaves her daughter and son-in-law, Jen- tionother Camp transfer (near commenced Gdanzk) and but Korben she and Work many Camp others (a locaust Research Center in New London. branch of K.Z. Stutthof). On January 20, 1945, yet an - UnitedDC 20024-2126 States Holocaust (www.ushmm.org); Memorial the Museum, Simon Army. ny and Stuart Rabinowitz of Glastonbury; her 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington,

Obituaries were liberated in Koronowo, Poland by the Russian daughter-in-law,of Manchester (and Paula her Markiewicz son) great-grandson, of Lake Ka Angeles, CA 90035 (www.wiesenthal.com); the trine, N.Y.; granddaughter, Michelle Rabinowitz Wiesenthal Center, 1399 South Roxbury, Los- Auschwitz.It was while The two in Poland,were married she met on Aug. (the 25, late) 1945 Abram and ning St., New London, CT 06320; Congrega- Markiewicz, a survivor of the concentration work camp Ethan; grandson, Aaron Rabinowitz of East Strochlitz Holocaust Resource Center, 28 Chan Hampton and his fiancée, Kira Shin St. Denis; 06415; or to the charity of one’s choice . her dear mother.left Poland together to return to Germany in the hopes grandson, Lee Markiewicz and his wife, Amy, of tionMay Ahavath her memory Achim, truly P.O. Boxbe for 5, aColchester, blessing! CT of finding any of her surviving family members - in particular, Cypress,children), Texas; great-grandson, grandson, Asa Abram and great-grand- Markiewicz Care of arrangements were entrusted to the anddaughter, his wife, Ani. Alexa, She also of Kingston,leaves a niece, N.Y. (anda nephew their Aurora-McCarthy Funeral Home of Colchester. Henny and Abram welcomed their first child (the late) Jacob and his family, as well as her very dear friend www.auroramccarthyfuneralhome.com. Markiewicz, in Germany in 1946. On Thanksgiving 1949, the youngShanghai, family China. emigrated to the United States to be reunited with ZABINSKY CONT. FROM PAGE 13 herHenny father, and who her had husband arrived purchasedin the United a poultry/dairy States in 1948 farm from in was proud of his grandson’s academic achieve- Colchester and shortly thereafter, in 1951, came the birth of of his life, Sam lived in Groton, CT with his wife ments. Most of all, he loved and cherished his their second child, Jenny. sonand andson, “kibbutzing.”close to his daughter During andthe lasther tenfamily. years wife. Abram died suddenly in December of 1976. Neither he nor Sam especially enjoyed spending time with Henny had ever revealed many details of their experiences dur- his grandson, Simon; be- did enough in his life, that we were very proud ing the war. ing active in his upbring- of himIn his and last his days, accomplishments, Sam needed to know and that that his he In January of 1981, Henny had again found love and married ing, social development, education and Jewish de- him. He was particularly proud of his heritage Colchester. Only with Bob’s encouragement, love and support, velopment. familyand Jewish would identity. be okay He andwas carrya giver on to withoutall from (the late) Robert Simon. The couple remained on the farm in- Sam was very active at heart and soul. Solomon Schechter Acad- We were blessed to have him in our lives and shepeople recorded in schools her and story at at other the Yalevenues University relaying Archiveher story for from Ho emy during Simon’s years grateful for all he did and who he was. Sam was locaustbefore, duringTestimonies. and after In 1986, the Holocaust. Henny began In their speaking free time, to young they there and enthusiastically, loved and he will be missed. He will never be forgotten. - promotions and soccer A graveside service was be held April 16 at enjoyed boating, fishing and travel. - attendedgames. Simon Simon’s brought karate per,Robert a WWII Simon medic died who in wasMay with of 2001. Eisenhower’s Over the course troops ofand count wit- a joy to Sam that he never imagined, and from lessnessed talks, the she liberation had become of Dachau. very close At the friends time with they Benjamin met, Ben Cooalso Sam to Simon. NHBAByles MemorialCemetery #3 Home, Preston. New Calling London hours assisted were - Sam was proud as a father that his daughter atwith the the Bohn’s arrangements. home at 11 York Court, Ledyard. ing the war. They became fast friends and nearly inseparable. graduated from The Wharton School. He was hadTogether, been speaking she and to Ben schoolchildren continued their about educational his experiences mission dur by proud of his special needs son’s athletic abilities - - In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to riences; he as a soldier and she as a survivor. ductive and meaningful place in this world. He Special Olympics, 27 Spicer Avenue, Noank, CT speaking jointly at schools about their closely related war expe through Special Olympics and his finding a pro 06340 on behalf of the Zabinsky family. told she could not accomplish something, she embraced it as a Whenever Henny was faced with a difficult situation or was Energy Saving challenge andMELVIN took great satisfaction GOLDBLATTT in proving otherwise. 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YOM HA’ATZAMUT / ISRAEL INDEPENDENCE DAY Mon., May 1, 2017 @ 5:45 PM Congregation Beth El 660 Ocean Ave., New London 5:45 Torch Lighting & a Little Something Extra — Volunteers from our community will have the honor of lighting 12 candles representing the 12 tribes of Israel. This custom began in Israel following the birth of the state. 6:30 Israeli Meal — Falafel, Shawarma, hummus, Israeli salads, hot dogs, and pareve birthday cake will highlight the supper. After you eat — Israeli Shuk (market) with affordable items to purchase/ Moon Bounce / Backgammon / Obstacle course for youngsters and ‘tweens / Cotton Candy / Israeli stations will include arts and crafts, face painting, make your own pita with toppings, and so much more. Adults will be able to watch a short movie and listen to a talk by Daniel Robinson Israel’s Economic Miracle. Adults will also be able to enjoy a complimentary wine-tasting offered by Paul Agranovitch of Universal Discount Package Store and Ed Cramer of Gordon’s Yellow Front Wines and Liquors. The Beth El Gift Shop will be open and offering up a wide assortment of Judaica for purchase. Israeli Goldstar beer will be available at a nominal cost.

If you plan to go. . .Checks/cash accepted at the door or credit cards over the Sponsored by the phone in advance. Make checks payable to ‘JFEC.’ Jewish Federation of Eastern CT Admission: $15/adult, $10/student 13-20, & Produced by our $5/student 5-12. No one will be turned away. Young Emissaries Let us know your attendance plans by Wed., Tal Gilboa & Guy Carmi April 26 so we can prepare plenty of food and set up enough tables — Contact Mimi at 860-442-8062 or [email protected]