Life After 60
BY MICHAEL WEISS
ira Linder is living proof that
life after 60 doesn't have to be
bleak. With a signature collec-
tion of health and beauty aids, an in-
ternational network of salons, and the
publication of her first book, Beauty
Begins at 60, this Polish-born sex-
tegenarian is anything but past her
prime.
"Women over 60 are the forgotten
ones," says Linder. "Many women in
their 60s may feel life is winding down.
They may be retired and restless. They
may be alone and recently widowed. I
want them to change their way of look-
ing at the next 25 years."
Linder is convinced that nothing is
impossible and with good reason. A
survivor of the Holocaust, she has been
beating the odds for most of her life.
As Poland became engulfed in war,
Linder fled from Warsaw to the Soviet
Union. Rather than solve her problems,
though, the move merely added to
them. Linder, considered an enemy
alien, was imprisoned in a Siberian
labor camp, where she remained for the
rest of the war. Meanwhile, her parents
in Warsaw were killed by the Nazis.
"The war years affected my character
and personality a great deal," says
Linder. "I think they made me a much
stronger person than I would have been
without it."
It was in the Soviet Union than she
met and married her first husband,
David, and gave birth to her daughter,
Lily. Soon after, the family left the
Soviet Union and made aliyah.
Linder lived in Israel for 14 years,
working in various jobs to supplement
her husband's income. In 1964, she
moved to the United States to be with
her daughter, who married a Detroiter.
"After living through such a tragedy
and being separated from my family
during the war, I thought it was very im-
portant that the family not be
separated. I wanted to be in touch with
my daughter, not just through letters,
but in person."
Linder, who then spoke Polish, Rus-
sian, French, German, Hebrew and Yid-
dish fluently, knew no English when she
arrived in the United States. In a short
time, though, she not only taught
herself English, but she also learned to
drive a car and opened her first salon
in Southfield.
With a flourishing career and a grow-
ing reputation it seemed as if the bad
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