Obituaries The Hebrew Benevolent Society (Chesed Shel Emes) will hold MEMORIAL DAY SERVICES Sunday, May 27 at 12:15 p.m. Obituaries from page 155 at the Veterans Section of their cemetery HEBREW MEMORIAL PARK Holocaust Survivor Affirmed Life Gratiot Avenue at 14 Mile Road with the participation of Jewish War Veterans Dept. of Michigan and Ladies Auxiliary. Families, Relatives and Friends are invited to attend. DR. SAUL WEINGARDEN President JOEY SELESNY Secretary DR. JEFFREY GOLDENBERG Vice President MARTIN LEDERMAN LAWRENCE TRAISON NORMAN LEVITIN Trustees HILLEL ABRAMS Vice President RABBI JOSEPH HIRSCH Treasurer RABBI BORUCH E. LEVIN Executive Director CHARLES SNOW Cemetery Chairman HARMON TRON J.W.V. Chairman GERALD ORDER J.W.V. Dept. Commander MYRA GROSS J.W.V.A. 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Square Lake Rd. 1262640 III Enter t e platin s um. giveaway A new winner every month! visit JNonline.us for details 156 May 24 • 2007 oby Dobkin (Chaja Tauba), 98, of Southfield, died May 7, 2007. She survived the Holocaust, but her brother Yitzchak Kesh Grabie, her par- ents, her husband, three chil- dren and a baby perished as a direct result of the Nazis' Final Solution in the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz. Toby turned over many leaves in her illustrious life — as a mother, wife and con- cerned, loving human being. What might have defeated others reflected her capacity to live life with a zest, passion, compassion and style that illuminated every- thing and everyone around her. She was a walking lesson of love, grace and style who, with her children, Barry, Hannah and Moses Ulrych, were described by Adat Shalom Synagogue Sisterhood as "royalty." Her personality and demeanor throughout life were les- sons of never giving up, of fighting for right and believing in a good tomorrow. Toby was born in Zdunska Wola, Poland, within the greater area of Lodz. Her father, Moishe Tovia Grabie, and mother, Machish Grabie, reflected the best of Alexander Chasidic lineage and devotion to the rebbes of Ger, Poland. Her father was a prominent, charitable textile manufacturer with mills in Lodz. She graduated gymnasium and even studied in Paris. She was fluent in English, Polish, German, Russian, and Yiddish. Her name Chaja (Chai, to life) reflected a personal blessing given to her by the Imrei Emes — rebbe of Ger. This blessing, as her positive attitude, followed her throughout her life despite her circumstances. Before being sent to Auschwitz, she was confined with her family to the Lodz Ghetto, where she was assigned to forced work stenciling airplane parts and forms for the German Luftwaffe. From the ghetto, she was put at the top of the trans- port list to go Auschwitz-Birkenau, where her children perished. Years later, another Holocaust survivor would describe Toby as someone who regularly saved an extra morsel of bread for her in their barracks at Auschwitz. Even amidst the desperate circumstances of the concentration camp, her demeanor was charitable. Many times, she hero- UST ically risked her life for Aron. others. Miraculous circumstanc- es, quick thinking and a deep desire to live account for her averting or surviving a number of brushes with death, including the gas chambers at Auschwitz. She escaped from a forced labor work detail as the Russians advanced. After The War Toby came back to her parents' home in Zdunska Wola, only to find the local townspeople already occu- pying her house. Sensing dangerous times, especially for survivors, she fled her hometown. Finding that her brother Majer Grabie, a textile businessman, had survived the war in Shanghai, China, she traveled to Shanghai and was reunited with him. There she met Rabbi Boruch Ulrych, scion of a great Warsaw rabbinic family, whom she married in 1948 in Shanghai. After arriving in San Francisco, she had the first of her three children. The family's travels took them to Chicago and ultimately to Detroit, where she and Rabbi Ulrych were confident that they could raise their children in a solid Jewish community. After Rabbi Ulrych of Adat Shalom Synagogue died in 1959, she again faced life's challenges as a widow and mother of young chil- dren. She became active with her children in Adat Shalom and in 1974 became the first woman to receive an award from its men's club. She was proud of being on the board of the Adat Shalom Sisterhood and chairing many charitable events. In 1970, she married Sam Dobkin.