Obituaries

His Love Survived

GLATT KOSHER

The brothers had an
unexpected, joyous
reunion in a hayloft
near the village of
urviving the Holocaust and
Krzemnica.
the loss of his parents and
"Sol said he was
seven siblings didn't embitter
meeting
our father
Salek "Sol" Allweiss. He continued
that evening in the
to smile and express love for people
field," Zygie said.
and every living being.
Jacob Allweiss, a
Mr. Allweiss, 78, the retired owner
horse trader, had
of Sol's Complete Car Care in
Berkley, succumbed to complications returned to help his
family. On June 6,
from diabetes on Aug. 1, 2004. He
1944, D-Day, the
and brother Zyga "Zygie" Allweiss
Sol Allweiss
three
were ambushed
were partners for 22 years in several
in a field by 150
Sol & Zygie's gas stations — a
police, all Nazi sympathizers. With
Standard Oil on Dexter at Waverly
guns in hand, the Allweisses scat-
in Detroit, a Mobil on Six Mile at
tered. Sol and Zygie learned later
Stoepel in Detroit and two more in
that their father had been tortured
Southfield on 10 Mile at Greenfield
and killed. The older brothers are
and 13 Mile at Southfield Road.
believed to have perished as well.
A talented mechanic who loved
During these desperate
working, Sol found some
times of survival, the boys
of his greatest pleasure in
traded an accordion to a
maintaining a beautiful
thief to get a French gun.
garden. His little piece of
Using that gun and a flash-
heaven, shared with wife,
light, they robbed a Nazi
Frieda, was their backyard
on a motorcycle of his uni-
farm alongside woods in
form and Mauser weapon.
West Bloomfield, com-
Dressed in the Gestapo
plete with chicken coops
uniform and wielding his
and ponds for fish and
gun, the boys relieved
ducks.
some traveling Volks
As niece Jann Allweiss
Deutsch (Nazi sympathiz-
Young noted, "I never saw
ers) of their suitcases, luck-
such a kissing man. He
ily
filled
with
kielbasa.
even kissed his chickens." Sol's
Toward
the
end of the war, the
"farm" made the local news in 1993
Dudziks, a Polish Catholic family
when a chicken he owned became
their father trusted, sheltered the
"mother" to nine ducklings hatched
brothers in the town of Chajkowa.
from eggs she warmed.
Being outdoors brought him closer Decades later, an Internet search
brought them together with daugh-
to his rural boyhood in Jaslany,
Poland. When Sol and Zygie debated ters from this family. Sol and Zygie
whose vegetables were best — one of arranged for the Holocaust Memorial
Museum to honor the Dudziks as
the simple joys of suburbia — it
reflected how far the teenage orphans Righteous Gentiles in 1999. Sol was
able to communicate easily in Polish
had come in achieving the American
with one of the daughters, Anya
.
dream.
Olszewska of Hamtramck, who
Sol was nearly 14 and Zygie 12
became the brothers' long lost "sis-
when Germany invaded Poland in
ter."
September 1939. The boys were
Sol and Zygie and their older
taken with their mother and sisters
cousins Zygmunt and Sallah
to a labor camp, Biesiatka, 50 miles
away. Their father and older brothers Muhlbauer took the S.S. Marine
Flasher to New York in 1947. From
already ,had fled to Russia. When
there, the brothers journeyed to
their mother, Esther Heller Allweiss,
Detroit, where Sol studied at Cass
died of typhus in the camp, Sol
Technical
High School. He was a
helped bury her beside a large tree.
mechanic
at
Grand River Chevrolet
The Allweiss sisters were eventually
and briefly designed "cars of the
shot and killed in 1943 with the
future" for Chevrolet Experimental.
camp's 600 Jews, but Zygie managed
In 1949, Sol met his future wife,
to escape. So did Sol, but earlier.

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16-year-old Frieda
Schiller, a war refugee
born in Chortkow,
Poland. He was visit-
ing a friend, Fred
Ferber, on Gladstone
Street when Fred's
mother hosted new-
comers Frieda and her
family for lunch.
Sol was drafted into
the U.S. Army in
1950. Eight months
later, just before the
unit shipped out to
Korea, Frieda said the
commanding officer learned Sol's
history and issued him an honorable
discharge, saying, "Allweiss, you've
done your fighting for a lifetime."
Sol and Frieda were happily mar-
ried since 1951 and took their four
children on camper vacations. In
retirement, when growing season was
over, they visited nearly every state.
"Sol loved the United States," said
Frieda. The couple belonged to
Temple Beth El and attended Torah
study.
Ben Allweiss remembers a loving
father helping him and brother Jack
launch rockets in a field and build-
ing a table for their model trains.
Before becoming ill, Sol liked play-
ing harmonica and singing songs
from his youth.
His wife was a constant visitor to
him in the convalescent center as
was Zygie. "Very few brothers could
be that devoted," said Frieda. "Sol
loved having him there every day."
Sol would have done the same for
Zygie. Their bond was deep.
Mr. Allweiss is survived by his
wife, Frieda; sons and daughters-in-
law Jack and Patty Allweiss, Ben
Allweiss, Phil and Katherine
Allweiss; daughter Ilana "Tammy"
Moss; grandchildren David and
Jonathan Allweiss, Erin Moss; broth-
er and sister-in-law Zyga and Irma
Allweiss; and brother-in-law and sis-
ter-in-law Goldy and Steven
Kriseman.
He was the beloved grandfather of
the late Sara Sophia Allweiss.
Interment was at Adat Shalom
Memorial Park. Contributions may
be made to the American Diabetes
Association, 30300 Telegraph, Suite
117, Bingham Farms, MI 48025 or a
charity of one's choice. Arrangements
by Dorfman Chapel.

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