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Love And Loss
Love letters and mementos tell the
tale of a marriage cut short by war.
Jan Durecki
Special to the Jewish News
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May 24 2012
is name was engraved
on a medal she did
not want to receive
and was later written into
a book she did not want to
read. These mementos were of
little solace to a young bride
named Sarah Friedman as she
mourned the loss of her dear
husband, Abraham.
The couple had been mar-
ried a little less than one year
Sarah and Abraham Friedman: Nazi sniper's
when a sniper's bullet ended
bullet ended their dreams for the future.
Abe's life on the battlefields
of France in December 1944.
Abe and Sarah first met at a Jewish
Their story might have quietly faded
War Veterans' dance sometime in 1942.
with her death in 2004 had it not been
On Dec. 20, 1943, they were married in
for Sarah's nephew, Larry Diamond.
Detroit by Rabbi Morris Adler. Among
Diamond was in Michigan to settle
the estate of Molly Diamond, his moth- the earliest dated documents in the
Friedman collection are the couple's
er and Sarah's sister. While doing so, he
ketubah, Jewish marriage contract,
came across a small cache of love let-
and a certified copy of their Record of
ters, photographs, military correspon-
Marriage.
dence and documents that detailed
On his wedding day, Abraham also
Sarah and Abraham's brief but loving
signed a get, a Jewish document of
relationship. On Jan. 5, 2012, Diamond
divorce. Temple Beth El's Rabbinic
donated this collection to the Jewish
War Veterans-Department of Michigan Associate Keren Alpert explained that
the get would protect Sarah if Abraham
Archives housed in Bloomfield
was killed in combat and his body was
Township-based Temple Beth El's
not recovered. Should Sarah desire to
Rabbi Leo M. Franklin Archives.
remarry, the get would prove, in the
Abraham was born in New York City
eyes of the Jewish faith, that she was
around 1910 to Russian immigrants
Samuel and Bertha (Raider) Friedman. free to do so.
By 1930, the Friedman family was
Off To War
living in Detroit and had grown to
Sarah kept 13 letters that Abe wrote
include two sons and three daughters.
to her between March and October
In that year's census records, Samuel is
of 1944. During this time, he was sta-
shown as owner of an interior decora-
tions store where both his sons worked. tioned at Camp Howze in Texas and
at an undisclosed location on the East
Sarah's parents also had emigrated
Coast. Abe wrote frequently of the
from Russia. At the turn of the cen-
weather, his training and army food.
tury, (David) Nathan Mailman left his
When in the field, Abe and his buddies
wife, Sadie, and children Bessie, Freda
supplemented their rations with eggs,
and Harry in Russia and came to the
bread and fresh biscuits purchased
United States. He brought his family
from local farmers. In August of 1944,
to the U.S. through Baltimore in April
1912. They eventually settled in Detroit Abe first mentions Sarah's "condition."
His mind was relieved knowing her
so Nathan could work on Ford Motor's
mother would be there to help when
assembly line for $5 a day.
their baby was born.
Sarah was born in Detroit in 1913,
At some point, Sarah wrote him con-
and her sister Molly followed in 1915.
cerning an inner-family squabble. Abe's
Because Nathan was an Orthodox Jew,
he was laid off because he was not able reply was haunting. He asked that she
not share the family's minor conflicts
to work on Saturdays. He then became
with him. If he were shipped to Europe,
a peddler, using a horse and wagon to
he would need a clear mind to concen-.
sell his wares. Sadie took in relatives
trate on the task at hand. Alas, Abe did
and boarders.