YESHIVA BETH YEHUDAH School for Boys • Beth Jacob School for Girls • Early Childhood Development Center 5751 W. Lincoln Drive • Southfield, MI 48076 • (248) 557-6750 . "The entire world is sustained by the Torah study of young children" 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. 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We deliver and offer full service. per PergOn SHIVA MENU: Garlic, lemon & herb roasted chicken, grilled salmon, chargrilled vegetables, roasted potatoes, caesar or mixed greens with cherries and walnut salad. inside the JN every 4th week of the month 74 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. Ho S u 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 Chapel. I 1