Obituaries
hen Herb Kaufrnan's daughters Ilene and Patty were old enough to type, they
hand typed yahrzeit notices and envelopes on an IBM Selectric typewriter.
Knowing Ira Kaufman's great grandson Chad and great granddaughter Stephanie were
monitoring the chapel's Web site and answering e-mail inquires, we don't have to imagine
the smile on Ira's face, we just look
at Grandpa Herbie.
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THE IRA. KAUFMAN CHAPEL
Bringing Together Family, Faith & Community
went to shule on a 4-hour bus
THE KAUFMAN
tour of Detroit's Jewish
COMMUNITY CORNER yesteryear, Sun, May 7, 2000.
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Jewish Yesteryear with
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Sun, May 7, 2000
See where previous
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Learn about Detroit's
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The tour meets at 12:15 pm
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The Board of Directors, Administration
and
The entire Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit Family
deeply mourns the passing
of our friend
Sadie Cohn (el)
May the Cohn/Haddow family find comfort
among the mourners of
Zion and Jerusalem.
Dr. Mark Smiley
Headmaster
Ail
4/14
2000
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CPR
can keep your love alive
Fred Blechman
President
American Heart
Association.
Fighting Head Disease
and Stroke
Ghetto Library. After the ghetto was
liquidated, she escaped from a
deportation train and fought in the
Resistance.
In 1946, when she immigrated to
the United States, she was reunited
with her father.
Abramowicz joined YIVO in
1947. In 1962, she was named head
librarian at YIVO, a library and
archive of Jewish life in Eastern
Europe, overseeing the library's
acquisition of major collections. In
1987, she became the institute's
research librarian.
In 1999, her father's book,
Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of
East European Jewish Life Before
World War II, was published in
English.
Abramowicz was a film, theater
and opera buff who enjoyed walks
through Central Park — but it was
her commitment to her work that
friends and colleagues remember.
Service Recalls
Grandmaster Of Chess
San Francisco — George
Koltanowski, a chess legend who
credited the game with saving him
from the Nazis, was remembered as
a "real king."
The San Francisco resident died
Feb. 5 at the age of 96.
His memorial service took place
March 26 at the Cathedral Hill
Hotel in San Francisco. More than
120 people attended to celebrate a
man known around the world for
both his record-setting blindfold
chess games and his lifelong promo-
tion of the game.
For more than half a century,
Koltanowski was the chess editor at
the San Francisco Chronicle, where
he published more than 19,000 con-
secutive columns starting in 1948
the longest-running column in
the paper's history. For 52 years, not
a single day went by without his col-
umn, which also had appeared in
other papers.
Koltanowski credits chess with
saving his life. He was heading to
Buenos Aires in 1940 for an inter-
national competition when his home
country of Belgium was invaded by
the Nazis. He found sanctuary first
in Guatemala and later Cuba, where
he caught the eye of a chess-playing
American consul, who aided his
immigration
to the United States. Several fam-
ily members died in the Holocaust.
Koltanowski is recognized by the
Guinness Book of World Records
for his - 1960 blindfold exhibition at
San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel,
where he played 56 consecutive
blindfold games for more than 13
hours. He won 50 games. The other
six were draws.
Unlike conventional chess, a
blindfold chess player keeps track of
each game in his mind without the
benefit of seeing the chess pieces on
a board, while the opponent plays
the game in the normal way.
Koltanowski was born in 1903 in
Antwerp. He started playing chess at
14, becoming Belgium's national
champion at age 17. -
He went on to become an inter-
national grandmaster, blindfold
chess champion of the world, presi-
dent of the U.S. Chess Federation
and author of more than 30 books.
He also hosted the PBS television
series "Koltanowski on Chess" and
founded the Kolty Chess for Youth
Foundation, which promotes chess
in schools.
Koltanowski is survived by his
wife, Leah, and nieces and nephews.
Contributions in his memory can
be sent to the Kolty Chess for Youth
Foundation, P.O. Box 7453, Menlo
Park, CA 94026.
—Jewish Bulletin of Northern California
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