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Obituaries
During the coming 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.
27 Nisan
April 15, 2007
Philip Aaron
Ben Bloom
Adolph Levinson
Phillip Silbert
Samuel Herman Singer
Abe Slotnick
Refael Yosef Weingarden
Fayga Berger
Rosabelle Berman
Chaya Sara Blotnick
Dolores Fox
Ethel Gladstone
Esther T. Haas
Rose Komisar
Fannie Litmak
Sarah Roslyn Smith
Sadie Spiegelman
Norma Sthal
Edith Wineman
28 Nisan
April 16, 2007
Jacob Buehler
Harry Cohen
Jack Freeman
Eliyahu Greenbaum
Morley Kessler
Abraham Lang
Sam Miller
Louis Modell
Abraham Rubin
Dr. Herbert Waldman
Dora Lipman
Johanna Newberger
Lila Robbins
Gertrude Schecter
Rachel Irene Wohl
Jeannette Lewis Kirsnianski
Rose Nathanson
Rose Weider
Robert Rubin
Simeon Saulson
Mark Steven Sklar
Rose Aronson
Sarah Chernoff
Anna D. Friedman
Antonia Heisler
Bella Henigman
Ruth Kieran
Becky Krivetsky
Ida Zorn
29 Nisan
April 17, 2007
Morris Alter
Kurt Ehrlich
Hyman Feldman
Morris Freedman
Zalman Raimi
Mendel Rosenzweig
David Ryke
Joseph Schmitz
George Sofferin
Isaac Jack Zuckerman
Helen Glass
Evelyn Kunin
Pasha Poster
01 Iyar
April 19, 2007
Louis Cohen
Jack Cwajgenberg
George Louis Gibson
Mordechai Wolf Kirsnianski
Morris Klein
Abraham Leibowitz
Louis Litwak
Manuel Mackie
Paul Shulman
Dr. Joseph Weber
Samuel Yura
Mindel Bas Shlomo
Ethel Borison
Beatrice Falick
Bertha Goodman
Dora Gore
Helen Hess
Myra Hoffman
30 Nisan
April 18, 2007
Harry Engel
Harold Fredman
David Friedman
Max Gellman
Albert Gerson
Samuel Kurnetz
H Rottenberg
02 Iyar
April 20, 2007
Benjamin Appel
David E. Barack
Louis Feld
Reuben Himelhoch
Mark Kniasik
Herbert C. Kohn
Mr. Neuhaus
Bertha Backhaut
Rebecca Beckman
Rose Eve Lerman
Rose Matenky
03 Iyar
April 21, 2007
Nathan Alpiner
Samuel Fine
Abraham Guttenberg
Chaim Kransberg
Samuel Leiderman
David Abraham Levine
Steve Harold Lewkowicz
Herman Moerman
Celia Brady
Rebecca Faintuck
Rose Gendelman
Esther Kea Rosengarten
Bella Stein
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April 12 • 2007
'Protector And Hero'
iliam Schon, 93, of
Farmington Hills, died
March 30, 2007.
He was born in Eastern Europe,
in a city known today as Kralovsky
Chlmec, Slovakia.
As a young man, he
had great physical
strength and moral
character. He worked
hard to help in the
family's transporta-
tion service. Alex
Hermann, an old
friend of Viliam's, said
that the entire Jewish
community looked up
Viliam Schon
to him as a "protec-
tor and hero" because
he would stand up to those who
might attack the Jewish resi-
dents.
Once in Viliam's late teens,
a traveling circus came to
town and offered 100 crowns
to anyone who could
defeat its wrestling
bear. To the crowd's
amazement, he defeated
the bear. Afterwards,
Viliam took the reward and gave it
to his mother, who severely admon-
ished him for this dangerous act.
Eastern Europe was soon struck
by blatant anti-Semitism that over-
took Kralovsky Chlmec's vibrant
Jewish community. The Holocaust
years tested Viliam's strength
and courage. After being arrested
by the Hungarian Nazis, he was
chained and thrown into a truck to
be taken to prison. In transit, he
managed to jump from the moving
vehicle, breaking the chains that
bound his hands and ran off into
the forest to save his life.
Viliam met his beloved wife,
Erna Riegler from Austria, in
Theresienstadt, a ghetto where the
Nazis would place the Jews before
they were sent to concentration
camps. Viliam spared what little
food rations he would receive for
Erna's survival. Working as a forced
laborer, he used his strength to
allow him to survive the harsh con-
ditions in the sewers of the ghetto.
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Following the war, Viliam and
Erna married and returned to his
hometown, where they raised their
family.
Working for many years as a
successful roofing
contractor, he was also
blessed with a great
mechanical mind and
could reproduce and
repair any machine
without blueprints.
Jews and gentiles
alike in the vicinity
would come to Villy
Bachi (Uncle Willy) if
they had any problems
or needs. He would
often interrupt his
dinner if a neighbor or friend
called with an emergency
problem.
In the 1980s under
Communism, Viliam fought
the local regime to protect
and rebuild the Jewish
usT cemetery. He personally
restored and maintained
+MR the
gravesites, around
which he built a metal
gate with Magen David, the Star
of David. He was later honored for
his mitzvot at a ceremony at the
Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in
Israel.
There is no greater mitzvah in
life than to selflessly serve others.
Viliam's strong character, sense of
humor, wisdom, kindness and advo-
cacy will never be forgotten.
Viliam Schon is survived by
his wife, Erna Schon; daughters
and son-in-law, Greta and Jerry
Hoffman of Farmington Hills; Eva
Schon of Slovakia; brother, Martin
Schoen of Southfield; sister and
brother-in-law, Jennie and Nate
Hoffman of California; grandchil-
dren, Jessica Hoffman, Norbert
Gati; great-grandchild, Nichole
Gati.
Interment at Adat Shalom
Memorial Park. Contributions may
be made to Holocaust Memorial
Center or the Jewish National Fund.
Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial
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