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22 Kislev
December 2, 2007
Samuel M. Benderoff
Harry S. Clayman
Isaac Dinkin
Julius Gold
Jacob Jeremias
Calvin Myers
Joyce Amhowitz
Anna Bonin
Anna Duchan
Sara Feiner
Fannie Goldberg
Magdalayna Kahan
Thelma Kaplan
Ida Kesselman
Esther Kirsh
Loretta Littman
Miriam Papelansky
Mary Peitz
Gloria Roggin
Dora Sokolsky
23 Kislev
December 3, 2007
Max Carp
Marcus Ginsberg
Michael Katz
Isaac Kelmanowitz
Nathan Marcus
Benjamin Mason
Benjamin Matz
David Morris
Gutman Prut
Max Rodin
Abraham C. Rosen
Samuel Scheinfield
Herman Seppen
Samuel Silverstein
Jacob Zitrine
Hinda Cohn
Elizabeth Fenyvesi
Sophie Gladstone
Pauline Golden
Gertrude Grunt
Rose Levy
Elizabeth Schottenfeld
24 Kislev
December 4, 2007
Louis !gnat Berger
Morris Feiner
Isadore Freedman
H. German
Lewis L Klein
Louis Stollman
Ira Wurm
Pauline Bell
Raizel Cohen
Tillie Cohen
Esther Lachover
Fleischman
Sadie Fredman
Emma Freedman
Nina Greenberg
Ida Kabaker
Mania Katzman
Erika Morgenroth
Agnes Sender
Golda Weisswasser
May Zuckerberg
25 Kislev
December 5, 2007
Benjamin Baum
Joseph Berger
Philip A Diskin
Aaron Jacobson
Robert R. Marwil
Arthur J. Osborne
Sam Polinsky
Samuel Schey
Charles Sperling
Carl Strauss
Meyer Watnick
Beatrice Borocoff
Rose Ferber
Belle Harris
Rebecca Pont
Esther Schlussel
Dora Zelichman
26 Kislev
December 6, 2007
Ben-zion Borkow
Hershel Gelernter
Joseph Gelernter
Isadore Jacob
Bernard Robert Katz
Carl J. Nelson
Benjamin Oppenheim
Gustave Pines
Joseph Yashenovsky
Rachel Alperin
Hattie Buch
Esther Gelernter
Rivky Gelernter
Josephine Gubin
Atta Matz
27 Kislev
December 7, 2007
Samuel Oventhal
Charles Smith
Nathan J. Wrubel
Ghana Yetta Brose
Ida Katz
Rose Litton
Bettie Rothenberg
Rose Tabock
Malka Wolsin
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Moshe Alperin
Max A. Bard
Craig Alan Bekatashi
Charles Berris
Allan E. Davis
Saul Charles Dorfman
Jacob Klainberg
Harry Lafer
Jack Osborne
Celia Ravin
Albert Allan Roggin
Morris Schneider
Allen Viedrah
Harry Wayne
Arthur Woll
Sara Ruth Cutler
Violet Vella Freedman
Ethel Liebergott
Esther Muskowitz
Sadie Rich
Annette Schulman
Pauline R Wasserman
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November 29 • 2007
'Affirmation Of Lit
H
degree from Wayne State University.
den Ciesla Covensky, 82,
Divorced in 1959, she married pro-
abstract expressionist art-
fessor of history Dr. Milton Covensky.
ist, died Nov. 20, 2007, of
Helen built an outstanding career as
heart failure.
an artist in Michigan, culminating
Born Hanka Ciesla in Kielce,
in a one-woman show at the Detroit
Poland, in 1925, she moved with her
Institute of Arts in 1983. Her work
family to Sosnowiec. Known as the
was shown in art galleries in New
prettiest girl in
York City, Michigan and Tel Aviv.
town, she enjoyed
Inspired by European and American
an idyllic child-
abstract expressionism, her "action"
hood until World
paintings were noted for their lush
War II broke out,
putting her family texture and strong, vibrant colors.
The paintings can be seen both in
in peril.
collections around the world and
Realizing that
locally, including at the Kreeger
her green eyes,
Museum in Washington, D.C. Helen
blond hair and
claimed that her paintings were "an
fluency in Polish
affirmation of life, as each stroke of
and German would allow her to
my paintings is in honor of the Six
pass as a Polish Catholic, her father
Million."
obtained false papers for Hanka.
"My mother's devotion to her
She and two other Jewish girls, also
painting for 40 years inspired my
with false papers, made their way
filmmaking and art collecting:' said
to Germany. They worked in a labor
her daughter Aviva. "Even with the
camp near Stuttgart. Every morn-
great tragedy of
ing Hanka lived
her youth, she
the ruse by pre-
focused on
tending to recite
teaching us les-
Catholic prayers.
sons about creat-
She also passed
ing beauty"
food clandestinely
Son Jonathan
to inmates in a
added,
"My
nearby Jewish con-
mother
had the
centration camp.
uncanny
ability
She was very
to
make
you
feel
proud to be lib-
Helen Covensky saw her art as a
good
about
your-
erated by the
testament to those who perished.
self. All whose
U.S. Army and
lives she touched
rode victori-
came
away
convinced
they were the
ously into Berlin on a tank. Good
most
intelligent,
the
most
insight-
at languages, Hanka started work-
ful,
the
most
attractive
persons
in
ing for the United Nations Relief
the
world.
She
told
you
so
with
such
Administration in Berlin. Her par-
conviction that you really believed
ents and sister died at Auschwitz,
you
could do anything"
but she was reunited in Berlin with
With
her husband, Milton, Helen
her brother David, who survived
moved
to
Bethesda, Md., in 1983 to
Auschwitz.
be
close
to
her daughter and son.
At the siblings' tearful reunion, a
Helen
is
also
survived by her daugh-
U.S. soldier, Chaim Kempner, wrote
ter-in-law,
Dr.
Lise Van Susteren;
their moving story for the Army
beloved
granddaughters,
Aliza,
newspaper. In 1946, she married
Delaney
and
Piera
Kempner;
brother,
the Lithuanian-born soldier; she
David
Chase
of
Hartford,
Conn.
wore a wedding dress made from a
The family asks that memorial
parachute. Her daughter, filmmaker
contributions
be made to the Helen
Aviva Kempner, was born in Berlin.
and
Milton
Covensky
Fund, do the
In 1949 the family moved to Detroit.
Washington
District
of
Columbia
Their son Jonathan, now president
Jewish
Community
Center,
1529-
and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers
16th
Street
N.W.,
Washington,
DC
Association, was born in 1951.
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In Detroit, Helen received an art