ELAINE GOLDMAN,

80, of West Bloomfield,
died April 20, 2012.
She is survived
by her husband of
54 years, Dr. Robert
Goldman; daughter,
Leslie
O'Neill of West
Goldman
Bloomfield; son and
daughter-in-law, David
and Laurie Goldman of Birmingham;
grandchildren, Dana O'Neill, Arlo and
Robin Goldman; sisters-in-law, Gail
Goldrath, Sandra Nathanson and Eleanor
Cohen; nieces and nephews.
Mrs. Goldman was the loving sister of
the late Dr. Milton Goldrath and the late
Dr. Milton Nathanson; the dear sister-in-
law of the late Joan Goldrath and the late
Myron Cohen.
Interment was at Clover Hill Park
Cemetery. Contributions may be made to
the Anti-Defamation League Michigan
Office, 25800 Northwestern Highway, Suite
980, Southfield, MI 48075; www.adl.org.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman Chapel.

They were
wonderful':

YOSEF LIS, of Haifa, Israel, died April 11,

2012.
Mr. Lis was born in the Warsaw Ghetto
and, at age 14, escaped with two siblings
to Russia, unwittingly leaving his parents
and three older siblings behind to eventu-
ally lose their lives to the Germans. The
Russians sentenced him to hard labor in
a work camp in Siberia for his continued
commitment to Zionism.
After Poland was liberated in late 1944,
Mr. Lis was released and traveled back
to Warsaw in search of his family only
to find the horrors. There he realized his
future lay in building a Jewish state. He
traveled to Italy and joined the Irgun
(Etzel, the Zionist underground move-
ment fighting to establish a Jewish home-
land). He worked to smuggle death camp
survivors into Palestine before boarding
a ship himself. His ship was intercepted
by the British navy, and he was sent to an
internment camp on the island of Cyprus.
There he trained, played soccer and met
his future wife, Ester.
In early 1948, they were smuggled into
Palestine, which was about to gain inde-
pendence as a sovereign Jewish nation. As
a young IDF solider, he fought bravely
in the War of Independence, driving
armored trucks into besieged Jerusalem.
He continued as a driver for the national
Egged Bus Company; as a reservist, he
participated in the wars of 1956 (Sinai
Campaign) and 1967 (Six-Day War).
He was the beloved husband of the
late Ester Lis; father of Hannan (Lisa) Lis
and Yehoshua (Anat) Lis; grandfather of
Ariella (Tzvi) Raviv, Liat Lis, Mataan Lis,
Aviv Lis, Orly (Gil) Leor and Michal Lis.
The funeral was held in Israel on April
15, 2012.

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