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Toledo, Ohio, died Aug. 31, 2009.
She was a life member of
Hadassah.
Mrs. Wittenberg is survived
by her son and daughter-in-law,
Larry and Carol Wittenberg of West
Bloomfield; grandchildren, Stacey
and Marc Wittenberg, Alan and
Lisa Wittenberg, Harry and Jen
Trattner, Linda and Arnie Winston,
Judy and Scott Hubacek, Julie and
Justin Hirsch, Nathan Wolfe; great-
grandchildren, Dylan, Max, Elle,
Sam, Zach and Jonah Wittenberg,
Phillip and Anna, Chris and Stefanie
Winston, Sarah Hubacek, Taylor and
Mason Hirsch; great-great-grand-
son, Conner Winston; great-great-
granddaughters, Apryl and Meghan
Winston.
She was the beloved wife of the
late Dave Wittenberg; mother of the
late Joyce Trattner.
Contributions may be made to the
Bill Sloman and Dave Wittenberg
Project Green Fund of JARC.
Arrangements by Wick V\risniewski
of Toledo.

Holocaust Victims' Burial
An international
New York/JTA
initiative to give Holocaust victims
interred in mass graves a proper
Jewish burial will be launched in
Eastern Europe.
The Dignity Return project is being
organized by Yuri Kanner, president
of the Russian Jewish Congress, in
cooperation \vith Rabbi Marc Schneier,
chairman of the World Jewish
Congress American Section.
The project's mission is to bury the
remains of victims of mass execu-
tion from Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania,
Moldova, Russia, Ukraine and Estonia
in a manner acceptable under Jewish
law.
"As we move further away from
the Shoah, the number of those who
can share a personal experience from
this atrocity grows smaller," Schneier
said. "As a result, it is increasingly
up to those who were born after the
Holocaust to preserve and protect
their stories and these sites so that
Holocaust revisionists will be unable
to change history, and our call of
`never again' will continue to resonate
from one generation to the next."
The founders of the Dignity Return
initiative will present details of the
project on International Holocaust
Remembrance Day, Jan. 27.

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No Although the Orthodox
Community by and large conies
to us because they trust our
religious preparations, our
Orthodox services represent less
than 10% of total flinerah.

FRIEDA METH
ZAJDNER, 93, of

ESTELLE WITTENBERG, 103, of

Ontario, Canada,
died Sept. 7, 2009.
She is survived
by her daughter,
Goldalee (the late
Duane) Geisz of
Zajdner
Bloomfield Hills;
grandchildren, Kim (John) Hart, Rick
(Elisa) Geisz; great-grandchildren,
Matthew Geisz, John Jacob Hart and
Jenna Hart; stepchildren, Nina Gawza,
Arnie (Ruth) Zajdner; their children
and great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Zajdner was the beloved wife
of the late Nathan Zajdner; mother of
the late Edward Meth.
Interment at Machpelah Cemetery
in Ferndale. Contributions may be
made to Gilda's Club of Metro-Detroit,
to the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
or to a charity of one's choice.
Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

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Correction

• The obituary for Norman Schwartz
(Aug. 27) should have indicated that
he is survived by grandchildren Risa
and Ian Flashner.

Poet-Composer Polonsky
Dmitry Polonsky,
Kiev, Ukraine/JTA
a Ukrainian Jewish composer, cellist
and poet, has died.
Polonsky, a founder and leader of
the Ancient Kiev musical salon, died
in late August in the Ukrainian capital.
He was 71.
He initiated the Ancient Kiev musi-
cal salon in 1988 and wrote numerous
musical compositions, many with
Jewish themes. He was a laureate of a
number of international contests.
Polonsky, a graduate of the
Belarussian Conservatory, worked as
a soloist at the Bolshoi Belorussian
Theatre of Opera and Ballet. Later he
moved with his family to Kiev and
worked as a teacher in music schools
and gave concerts.
He also was the author of acrostics
and fables.

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Former Rite Aid CEO
Alex Grass, the
New York/JTA
founder of the Rite Aid pharmacy
chain and a prominent Jewish philan-
thropist, has died.
Grass died Aug. 27 of respira-
tory failure at his family home in
Harrisburg, Pa. He was 82.
Grass turned a discount store in

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