Obituaries

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MANNY SEGEL, 84, of Farmington Hills,
died June 11, 2007.
He is survived by his beloved wife, Ethel
Segel; sons and daughters-in-law, David
and Robbie Segel of West Bloomfield, Jay
and Celine Segel of California; daughter
and son-in-law, Cheri and Don Pentzien of
West Bloomfield; brother, Harry Segel of
Lantana, Fla.; sister, Esther Felton of West
Bloomfield; grandchildren, Nicole (Todd)
Fink, Amanda Segel, Michael Shulman,
Matthew (Karen) Shulman, Kevin Segel,
Victoria Segel and Brad Segel; great-
grandchildren, Madelaine, Aerin, Andrew
and Tyler; many other loving family mem-
bers and friends.
Interment at the Clover Hill Park
Cemetery. Contributions may be made
to the Karmanos Cancer Institute.
Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

LEAH SHAPIRO, 82, of West Palm Beach,
Fla., died June 12, 2007. She and her
husband were the first wife and husband
C.P.A. team in Michigan.
An avid bridge player, she was active in
many bridge clubs and became a bronze

life master. She was a past member of Tam
O'Shanter Country Club, was active in
Hadassah and was a founder of N.O.W.
Mrs. Shapiro is survived by her husband
of 60 years, Alvin Shapiro of West Palm
Beach; daughter, Julia Shapiro of New
York City; son and daughter-in-law, Dr. Eli
Shapiro and Laura DiDonato-Shapiro of
Birmingham; grandchildren, Danielle and
Carly Shapiro, Nicole, Danielle and Melissa
DiDonato; brother, Mortimer Levin of
Southfield; sister, Devera Levin.
Interment at Clover Hill Park Cemetery.
Contributions may be made to Hadassah,
5030 Orchard Lake Rd., West Bloomfield,
MI 48323 or a charity of one's choice.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

PAULINE TACHNA, 97, of Farmington
Hills, died June 11, 2007.
She is survived by her daughter, Helene
Tachna of Farmington Hills; granddaugh-
ter, Nicole Tachna.
Mrs. Tachna was the beloved wife of the
late Maurice Tachna; loving mother of the
late Milford Tachna.
Contributions may be made to

American Diabetes Association, 30300
Telegraph, Suite 117, Bingham Farms,
MI 48025 or American Brain Tumor
Association, 2720 River Rd., Des Plaines,
IL 60018. Interment at Hebrew Memorial
Park. Arrangements by Hebrew Memorial
Chapel.

Baron Guy de Rothschild,
Led French Jews For Decades
Paris/JTA Baron Guy de Rothschild,
the patriarch of the French branch of the
famed Rothschild banking empire, was
a secular Jew but understood the needs
of the Jewish community. He founded
France's United Jewish Fund leading it for
more than three decades.
Rothschild died June 14, 2007, in Paris
at 98. The cause of death was not given.
He founded the fund, a federation of
some 200 social, educational and cultural
associations, in 1950 and guided it until
1982, when son David assumed leadership.
The fund helped to restructure the
community after the deportation of
75,000 French Jews by the collaboration-

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ist French government during World War
H and played a major role integrating
the Sephardim who came from Morocco,
Tunisia and Algeria in the 1950s and '60s
and now account for at least 70 percent of
the approximately 700,000 Jews in France.
While he worked on Jewish education in
France, his focus in Israel was secular.
The French government during the Nazi
occupation seized the Rothschilds' finan-
cial empire because the family was Jewish.
Rothschild fled to the United States and
then London, where he joined the resis-
tance force led by Gen. Charles de Gaulle.
Rothschild rebuilt the empire following
World War II and guided de Rothschild
Freres bank from 1967 to 1979. In 1981,
the bank was again taken away, this
time nationalized by the French govern-
ment under Socialist President Francois
Mitterrand. A bitter Rothschild wrote after
the seizure, "A Jew under Petain, a pariah
under Mitterrand — for me it's enough."
A few years later, his son David once
more began to piece together the family
banking network, which in 1987 became
the Rothschild and Company Bank. I I

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