soul

Y OU ’ VE ALWAYS ANTICIPATED
EACH OTHER ’ S NEEDS .

of blessed memory

PAULA BALKIN,
93, of West
Bloomfield, died
Oct. 31, 2017.
She was born in
Leipzig, Germany.
to a close, lov-
ing family. After
Balkin
Kristallnacht,
she escaped to
England on the
Kinderstransport and lived there
until the end of the war, immigrat-
ing to the United States in 1947.
It was love at first sight when she
met her husband, Sam Thomas
Balkin, in May and got married that
July of 1948.
Paula and her husband were
founding members of Congregation
Beth Shalom in Oak Park, where
she was actively involved in the
sisterhood.
Soon after the wedding of their
daughter, they retired to San
Diego. Paula loved to attend her
synagogue, Ner Tamid, and never
missed a gathering of her current
events group. A few years after her
husband’s death, she returned to
Oakland County, residing at the
Jewish Senior Life campus in West
Bloomfield and attending B’nai
Israel.
Having survived the Holocaust,
Paula strove to honor the memory
of her family who perished by
instilling in her children and grand-
children strong Jewish values and a
love for Israel.
She was a loving wife, mother,
grandmother, great-grandmother,
sister, aunt and cousin. Mrs.
Balkin is survived by her children,
Herschel (Karen) Balkin, Michael
(Deborah) Balkin, and Trudy
(Howard) Jacobson; her grandchil-
dren, Ethan (Marcia) Balkin and
Eli Balkin, Elana Balkin (Gonzalo
Jusid) and Aaron (Hannah) Balkin,
Avi Jacobson (Rachel Roth), Jeremy
Jacobson and Shira (Ross) Broms;
great-grandchildren, Sam and Adira
Jacobson, Aliza Broms and Olivia
Balkin; her sister, Edith Maniker.
The family is most appreciative of
the loving attention she received
over the past several years from her
many dedicated caregivers.
Interment was at Greenwood
Memorial Park Cemetery in San
Diego, Calif. Contributions may
be made to the Joint Distribution
Committee, 711 Third Ave., New
York, N.Y. 10017, jdc.org; or Jewish
Senior Life Foundation, 6710 W.
Maple Road, West Bloomfield,
MI 48322, www.jslmi.org.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman
Chapel.

D ON ’ T STOP NOW .

By now, you know each other so well you feel you’re
part of each other (and you are). You know exactly
what each other is thinking before it’s said.

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