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‘Bookkeeper O f Auschwitz’ Dies

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MARSHALL L. KELLER, 96, of West
Bloomfield, died March 15, 2018.
He is survived by his sons and daughters-in-
law, Edward and Alene Keller, Daniel “Fuzzy”
and Norene Keller; daughter, Nancy Keller;
grandchildren, Rachel (Jeff) Morton, Rebecca
(Mark) Stouffer, Shana (Andrew) Neeson and
Danielle Keller; great-grandchildren, Samantha
(Travis), Alexis, Mackenzie, Eliana, Owen,
Callen, Henry and Reid; great-great-grandchild,
Easton; many loving nieces, nephews, other
family members and friends.
Mr. Keller was the beloved husband of the late
Ruth D. Keller; brother of the late Ruth “Bunny”
Bernstein.
Interment was held at Beth El Cemetery in
Livonia. Contributions may be made to a char-
ity of one’s choice. Arrangements by Dorfman
Chapel.

Mark

MARISSA LEIGH MARK, 59,
of West Bloomfield, died
March 11, 2018.
She is survived by her
daughters, Ilyse Mark, Alex
Mark and Brianna Mark;
brothers and sister-in-law,
Wayne and Andrea Miller,
Darryl Miller and Lorne Tobin
Miller; many other loving fam-

ily members and friends.
Contributions may be made to Jewish Family
Services or the Friendship Circle. Arrangements
by Dorfman Chapel.

DR. BERNARD “BUDDY”
SHINDLER, 81, of Northbrook,
Ill., and Delray Beach, Fla., for-
merly of Detroit, died March 9,
2018. A respected chiropractor
for more than 50 years, he was
loved by all he encountered.
Dr. Shindler is survived by
Shindler
his cherished partner, Doris
Kaplan; loving children, Rob
(Andi), Keith (Sharel) and
David (Cari); adoring grand-
children, Emily, Isabella, Oliver, Simon, Dylan,
Sage, Samantha and Grant; treasured brother,
Arnold (Sherry) of West Bloomfield; fond neph-
ews, Eric (Ashley) and Daniel; dear sister-in-law,
Beverly (Ralph) Wallace.
Dr. Shindler was the beloved husband of the
late Gloria; devoted son of the late Morris and
the late Sarah Shindler.
Graveside services were held in Arlington
Heights, Ill. Memorial service was held in
Glencoe, Ill. Contributions to the Buddy
Shindler Memorial Fund may be made www.
amshalom.com.

Oskar Groening, the
former Auschwitz
guard convicted in
his 90s for his role in
the murder of 300,000
Hungarian Jews at the
concentration camp,
has died in Germany.
Groening
He was 96.
Groening, who was
sentenced to four years
in prison for his crimes, died
without spending a day serving
his term. The man known as the
“Bookkeeper of Auschwitz” was
convicted in July 2015.
He had been expected to enter
prison at the end of January, but
the continued wrangling over the
state of his health kept him from
beginning to serve his sentence.
“The death of Oskar Groening
just before he was scheduled to
begin to serve his sentence in a
German jail following his convic-
tion three years ago for acces-
sory to murder is quite unfor-
tunate, at least on a symbolic
level,” Efraim Zuroff, director
of the Israel office of the Simon
Wiesenthal Center and an expert
in Nazi war criminals, said in a
statement issued last week.
Zuroff pointed out that two
other Nazi war criminals — John
Demjanjuk, who was convicted

in 2011, and Reinhold
Hanning, who was con-
victed in 2016 — also died
while awaiting decisions
on their appeals.
“As fate would have it,
[Groening] too has now
escaped justice, casting
a shadow of sorts on the
judicial processes,” he
said. “Without at least
symbolic justice, these trials, as
important as they are, lose an
important part of their signifi-
cance. Their victims never had
any appeals, nor did their tor-
mentors have any mercy; conse-
quently, these perpetrators don’t
deserve either.”
Groening had admitted to
being tasked with gathering the
money and valuables found in
the baggage of murdered Jews
and handing it over to his superi-
ors for transfer to Berlin. He said
he had guarded luggage on the
Auschwitz arrival and selection
ramp two or three times in the
summer of 1944.
During the trial, Groening
asked for forgiveness while
acknowledging that only the
courts could decide when it
came to criminal guilt. •

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