Obituaries
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PEARL WARHEIT, 93, of Farmington
Hills, died July 1, 2009.
She is survived by her daughter, Sharon
Padzensky; son and daughter-in-law, Phil
and Lynne Warheit; grandchildren, Marcy
and Tom Colton, Glenn and Felicia Warheit,
Lisa Padzensky, Lori Champagne, David
and Tina Padzensky; great-grandchildren,
Scott and Dayna Warheit, Michael and
Jennifer Colton; sister, Rose Sandler.
Mrs. Warheit was the beloved wife of the
late Jack Warheit; dear mother-in-law of
the late Ted Padzensky; loving sister of the
late Sarah Simons; dear sister-in-law of
the late Sam Sandler.
Interment at Adat Shalom Memorial
Park. Contributions may be made to the
Deaf Community Advocacy Network,
2111 Orchard Lake Road, Suite 101,
Sylvan Lake, MI 48320, www.deafcan.org.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.
Correction
• The obituary for Beverly Brawer
(July 2) should have indicated that she
is survived by her sisters-in-law, Bobbi
Markowitz and Joan Shifman.
Pianist Hero Honored
Berlin/JTA
The German soldier
whose acts of defiance in helping Jews
was made famous in The Pianist was
honored posthumously in Berlin.
Wilhelm Hosenfeld, who died in 1952
in a Soviet prison, was honored last
month in ceremonies hosted by the
Israeli Embassy and Jewish Museum.
Three of his five children attended the
presentation of the Righteous Among
the Nations award from Yad Vashem,
Israel's Holocaust memorial.
The Roman Polansky film about the
dramatic survival in hiding of Waldislaw
Szpilman in Nazi-occupied Warsaw spot-
lighted Hosenfeld's heroism. Szpilman's
son, Andrej, who was at the ceremony,
still speaks with amazement about
Hosenfeld's defiance of the authorities.
"It was winter, minus 20 degrees, and
he discovered my father in hiding and
helped him:' Szpilman said.
Hosenfeld, a Wehrmacht soldier, also
provided false identity papers and a
job to Leon Warm, a Jewish man who
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had escaped a deportation train to
Treblinka.
Based on testimony from the two
men, Hosenfeld was recognized last
November by Yad Vashem.
Although Hosenfeld had joined the
Nazi Party in 1935, he soon became
deeply critical of the regime and its
treatment of the Jews and Poles.
Following the brutal suppression of
the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, he wrote in
his diary that the "horrible mass mur-
der of the Jews" would end up being the
downfall of the Nazi regime.
Hosenfeld kept his treasonous diary
with him at all times, finally mailing it
home to Germany.
Andrej Szpilman, a doctor in Poland,
recalled that a patient once reported
that his "neighbor was in the Soviet
prison with Hosenfeld on the Volga
River. And he did not like [Hosenfeld]
because he helped Jews."
Some rescuers have never been rec-
ognized, Szpilman noted, because they
are still afraid to talk openly about what
they did.
Mass Grave Defiled?
Lausanne, Switzerland/JTA — A private
investigation suggests that the bones
of murdered Jews from a World War II
mass grave are being sold to medical
students.
In an e-mail to JTA, the Rabbinical
Centre of Europe said it had learned
that students at the University of Iasi in
Romania were buying parts of skeletons
from the site of a World War II massacre
of Jews in Podu Iloaiei.
Asher Gold, a spokesman for the
Brussels-based rabbinical group, said the
allegation came from an American Jew liv-
ing in Iasi.
Students at the University of Medicine
and Pharmacy GT Popa reportedly told
the visiting American that grave workers
would dig up bones and "cleaned them
up nicely" for the price of about $40 per
bone. Jewish students confirmed to the
rabbinical group that notices concern-
ing the sale of bones have circulated at
the university, but they could not name a
direct source for the purchase, Gold said.
worthy
A life well lived
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