-\ YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center 15751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, MI 48076 • (248) 557-6750 "The entire world is sustained by the Torah study of young ehildren w During the corning week, the students of Yeshiva Beth Yehudah will study in memory of the following departed friends. In addition, Kaddish will be said during the daily minyan. Adar I 28 / March 2 Good-Hearted Barber 1960s. In America, he resumed the bar- ber business he had started in Lithuania, Special to the Jewish News operating out of his home. Daughter - Hannah Blau said her father taught her ak Park's basement barber, the importance of succeeding, not just who cut his friends' and surviving, "in a world that is not always neighbors' hair in his • so friendly, compassionate or just." Westhampton Street home Mr. Silver was totally devoted to his for 40 years, died Feb. 19 at age 99. • family, cherishing the At his funeral, former cus- precious opportunity r ‘',! tomers of Samuel Silver he was given to build recounted how he had given a new life after the family mem- Holocaust. bers their first As Rabbi Shapiro haircut and noted: "Sam lived continued to humbly and frugally, cut their hair as denying himself the usT they grew up. OR benefit of his funds, Mr. Silver con- so he could concen- tinued to cut trate his immense love hair into his mid-90s. on [grandchildren] Mr. Silver's skill as a barber Ben and Tammy." was a constant element "He was always part throughout his life in the of our lives," Ben Blau Old Country and the United said. "We saw him States — and also during the Samuel Sil ver practically every day." dark days of the Holocaust. And, of course, Ben said he'd always Mr. Silver was born "Zelig Zilber" in remember the numerous haircuts his Vilna, Lithuania, and at age 20 opened grandfather gave him. his own barbershop there. Rabbi Avie Mr. Silver, who liked the give-and-take Shapiro of the Jewish Hospice and of opinionated conversation, had a repu- Chaplaincy Network, who spoke at the tation for kindness among his customers. funeral, said Mr. Silver was held in such He worked on a sliding scale and some- high regard in his hometown that Reb Chaim Lazer, the giant of the communi- one down on his luck could get a free haircut. He also made house calls. It is ty, would briefly remove his yarmulke no wonder that, as granddaughter only to let this barber. trim his hair. Tamara Hewiston said, "Everywhere we'd The young barber had three sons with go, somebody would say, 'your zaydie cut his wife, Masha, but with the Holocaust, my hair 40 years ago.'" all were tragically lost. Masha and their Rabbi Shapiro brought back a raft of youngest son perished in the ghetto; the condolences when he told the old-timers two oldest died in a German death camp. davening at the Kollel Institute in Oak Mr. Silver was imprisoned in the Park of Mr. Silver's death. Dachau and Stuttov concentration Tamara is saving her grandfather's bar- camps, and the only reason he was not ber chair for future generations to enjoy. slain was that he was needed to cut the Mr. Silver is survived by his daughter, hair of the German S.S. officers. Hannah Blau of West Bloomfield; After his liberation at the war's end, grandchildren, Ben and Alison Blau, Mr. Silver sometimes peddled apples in Tamara and Nicholas Hewitson and a displaced persons' camp in Germany. great-grandson, Drake. But he gave his fruit away to one special Mr. Silver was the beloved husband of woman who caught his eye. the late Rena Silver and also the late Mr. Silver and the former Rena Masha Silver, with whom he had three Silberfreund, whose husband and chil- sons who perished in the Holocaust. dren had also died in the Holocaust, Interment was at Machpelah were two people who wanted to start life Cemetery. Contributions may be made anew. They quickly decided to marry and their only child, Hannah, was born a to Yeshiva Beth Yehudah, P.O. Box 2044, Southfield, MI 48037; Holocaust year later. The marriage lasted over half a century, until Mrs. Silver's death in 1997. Memorial Center, 6602 W. Maple, West Bloomfield, MI 48322; or to a The Silvers lived in the 12th Street charity of one's choice. Arrangements and Dexter neighborhoods of Detroit by Hebrew Memorial Chapel. ❑ and moved to Oak Park in the early ESTHER ALLWEISS TSCHIRHART 0 . Adar II 1 / March 5 Sam Belkin Benjamin R. 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