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. - 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. Take a Bus Tour of Jewish Yesteryear with Jewish Historical Society of Michigan Sun, May 7, 2000 See where previous generations lived, shopped and Learn about Detroit's Jewish history from downtown to suburbs on a luxury air-conditioned bus. The tour is $15 for JHSM members, $18 for non- members. A light snack is offered. The tour meets at 12:15 pm at Temple Beth El's North parking lot. Please send check by May 1 to JHSM. c/o Adele Staller, 27056 Fairfax, Southfield, MI 48076, or for more info, call (248) 557-8315 18325 West Nine Mile Road, Southfield, MI 48075 -Telephone: 248-569-0020 • Toll Free: 800-325-7105 Please visit us at our web site: wwwiralcaufinan.com 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 182 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. 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