Mazel Toy!

A Life Together

Holocaust survivors celebrate 60th anniversary.

Harry Kirsbaum

Staff Writer

I is been a little more than 60 years .
since a chance encounter through
a hospital window in Germany led
to rebuilding the lives of two Holocaust
survivors.
On Saturday, April 1, William Weiss,
82, of West Bloomfield will read from the
Torah during services at Temple Beth El
in Bloomfield Township to celebrate his
60th wedding anniversary with his wife,
Regina, 8L
They met in 1945 while both recover-
ing from injuries and illnesses suffered in
numerous Nazi Germany concentration
camps.
They were both liberated by American
troops — Bill while in Dachau, and
Regina, while on a death march in
Czechoslovakia.
Regina, who grew up near Krakow,

March 10
Rabbi Marc Israel and Abbey Frank of
Chevy Chase, Md., welcome with love the
birth of their son, Oren Nadiv Frank
Israel. Excited siblings are Elianna, 5,
Micah, 3. Sharing in their happiness are
proud grandparents Jerry and Carol Israel
of Bloomfield Hills and Jerry and Judy
Frank of Potomac, Md. Also sharing in
their joy are great-grandmothers Vera
Israel of Cleveland and Ruth Nagelbush of
Southfield.

Feb. 15

Yale and Lisa
(Tucker)
Goldis of San
Diego, Calif.,
are pleased
to announce
the birth of
their twins,
Joshua and Ronen
Joshua Asher
Goldis
and Ronen
Gabriel. Big
brother is Aaron Samuel. Proud grand-
parents are Judy and David Goldis of
Farmington Hills and Betty and Don
Place of San Diego. Excited great-grand-
parents are Ida and Bill Abrahams of
Boynton Beach, Fla. Joshua is named for
great-uncle Julius Wainer and great-great-
grandmother Celia Fish. Ronen is named
for cousin Ronald Fish.

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Poland, couldn't walk because her back
was crippled from her ordeal.
At first, she was in one hospital for six
months in Czechoslovakia.
"When the Russians took over [that
country], an American chaplain, a rabbi,
he said he didn't want to leave all the
Jewish girls with Russians, so he took us
all to Munich',' she said. They dropped
her off in a hotel that was converted to
a hospital near a big displaced persons
camp near Munich. She had a bed by a
street-side window so she could look out
the window.
Bill, who grew up in Lvov, Ukraine, was
"slowly" recovering from typhus for six
months at the same hospital.
"I didn't want to leave',' he said. "I had a
place to stay, and some food; and I had no
place to go."
"I was walking on the sidewalk and her
room was on the first floor, and she was
looking out the window. She saw a nice-
looking guy walking by with nice bushy

Jan. 20

Dana (Kutinsky) and Robert Gelick of Oak
Park, Calif., joyfully announce the birth of
their daughter, Leah Grace, sister of Ross
and Brent. Leah is lovingly welcomed by
her maternal grandparents Jay and Lesley
Kutinsky of Farmington -Hills, paternal
grandparents Eileen and Michael Gelick
of Chicago and her maternal great-grand-
parents Irene and Alvin Goodman of
Chicago. Leah was named after her pater-
nal grandmother Gertrude Grossman and
her maternal great-grandmother Lenore
Goodman.

Jan. 1

Renee (Rubenfaer) and Jay Wolgin of
West Bloomfield are
thrilled to announce
the birth of their
son, Alexander Sage
(Shai Aliyahu). Proud
first-time grandpar-
ents are Carol and
Bill Rubenfaer and
Beverley and Dennis
Wolgin
Wolgin, all of West
Bloomfield. Also sharing in their joy are
great-grandparents Babs Geller, Benny
Rubenfaer, Morris and Irene Harelik and
Edith Wolgin. Alex is named in loving
memory of his maternal great-grand-
mother Sarah Rubenfaer and his paternal
great-grandfather Albert Wolgin.

hair, and she just leaned
over and grabbed me by
the hair and pulled me in
the window',' he said. "And
Regina and
she's kept me for 60 years."
Bill and Regina, two
orphans who had lost every
member of their families to the Nazi
smokestacks, got married a year later and
started over again.
They moved to Munich; and Bill
worked in a small shop that fixed type-
writers, while Regina took care of their
son Sam.
On Aug. 14, 1949, they came to Detroit,
and they settled on Dexter Boulevard.
"We came on a Thursday; and on
Monday, Bill went to work," Regina said.
Bill worked in the clothing business for
Kern's department store in Detroit, then
for Hughes & Hatcher, then for Kosin's.
"It was a lot of struggle, and a lot of
sacrifices because you want to put the
kids through school and send them to

Bill Weiss

Chad Andrew Cutler will celebrate
his bar mitzvah
Saturday, April 1,
at Temple Israel
as he is called to
the bimah to read
from the Torah. His
parents are Gayle •
and Dr. Alan Cutler
and his sister is
Cutler
Samantha. Sharing
in the simchah
will be his grandparents Carol and Lewis
Moyer and Janice and Donald Cutler.
Chad is a student at West Hills Middle
School in Bloomfield Hills. He volunteered
at the Lighthouse Emergency Shelters
Holiday Drive and felt it was his most
meaningful mitzvah project.

Adam Mitchell Denenberg, son of
Jodi and Todd
Denenberg and
brother of Jamie,
will celebrate his bar
mitzvah as he reads
from the Torah,
Saturday, April 1, at
Temple Israel. His
grandparents are
Maxine and Herbert
Denenberg
Weinberg and Marge
and Julius Denenberg and his proud great-
grandfather is Lawrence Block. He is also

college said Regina, who stayed home
to raise the sons, Sam, now 59, of San
Diego; Fred, 56, of West Bloomfield; and
Michael, 53, of Troy.
Both Regina and Bill share their
survivor stories with students at
the Holocaust Memorial Center in
Farmington Hills.
Bill has been studying the Torah por-
tion for the past couple of months. "It's
a great honor, it's unbelievable he said.
"The kids will have aliyahs. And we'll
have an extended Kiddush for whoever
wants to come." 7_

the great-grandchild of the late Lenore
Block and the late Constance and Sydney
Weinberg.
Adam is a student at Hillel Day School
of Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington
Hills. His most meaningful mitzvah proj-
ect was volunteering in the Hillel School
JARC program, where he participated with
adults in a variety of activities.

Anna Lauren Eisenberg, daughter
of Robin and Leo Eisenberg, will be
called to the Torah
as a bat mitzvah
Saturday, April 1,
at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek
Southfield. She
is the sister of Max
and Louis. Proud
are grandparents
are Isidor Eisenberg,
Eisenberg
Norma and Allan
Sluizer and great-
grandmother Shirley Richmond. She is
also the granddaughter of the late Belle
Eisenberg and the late Harriet and Gilbert
Richmond.
Anna attends Hillel Day School of
Metropolitan Detroit in Farmington Hills.
One of her most meaningful mitzvah
projects has been volunteering time at the
Fleischman Residence in West Bloomfield.