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HAIR & SKIN CENTER 30150 Telegraph Road, Suite 173 • Bingham Farms BBB 877-723-0020, toll-free • 248-723-NewU (6398) Renewhs.com 22 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.