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Dutch Holocaust Hero Dies

of blessed memory

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DR. EUGENE A. SNIDER,
84, of Delray Beach, Fla., died
March 24, 2018.
Gene had a successful
30-year OBGyn medical
practice in the Detroit area
before retiring in 1995 to
spend more time with family
Snider
and travel the world.
He was an avid birder,
lover of crossword puzzles and always on the
cutting edge of new technology. His charis-
matic personality and wry sense of humor
touched all those who came in contact with
him. His greatest pleasure later in life were his
five grandchildren.
Dr. Snider is survived by his wife of 59
years, Kit Snider; sons, David Snider, Paul
(Stephanie) Snider, Eric (Kelly) Snider; grand-
children, Shelby, Leah, Jonah, Ari and Colin.
The funeral was held at Eternal Light Beth
Israel in Boyton Beach, Fla. It is suggested
that those who wish to further honor the
memory of Gene Snider may do so by making
a contribution to a charity of one’s choice.

ROSE ROTHBERG WEINSTEIN, 99, of West
Bloomfield, died March 15, 2018.
She is survived by her children, Lee Zeff
of San Mateo, Calif., and Dr. Alan Rothberg
of Denver, Colo.; grandchildren, James Zeff,

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David Zeff, Lauren Lutska, Victoria Rothberg,
Samantha Rothberg, Adam Rothberg and
Amy Rothberg; 11 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Weinstein was the beloved wife of the
late Victor Rothberg and the late Maj. Gen.
William J. Weinstein.
Interment was at Machpelah Cemetery.
Contributions may be made to Alzheimer’s
Association-Greater Michigan Chapter, 25200
Telegraph Road, Suite 100, Southfield, MI
48033, www.alz.org/gmc. Arrangements by Ira
Kaufman Chapel.

ANITA MIRIAM WEINER,
78, of West Bloomfield, died
March 19, 2018.
She is survived by
her sons and daughters-
in-law, Mark and Sharon
Weiner, Jeff and Lori
Weiner; daughter, Robyn
Weiner
Weiner; grandchildren,
Shayna, Aaron, Leah,
Michael, Taylor and Gaven; many other lov-
ing family members and friends.
Contributions may be made to Best
Friends Animal Society or to the Karmanos
Cancer Institute. Arrangements by Dorfman
Chapel. •

save Jews from the Holocaust.
In 2012, Israeli Prime Minister
ohan van Hulst, 107, a Dutch
Benjamin Netanyahu honored Van
seminary leader who saved
Hulst during a state visit to the
hundreds of Jewish children
Netherlands. That year, Van Hulst’s
during the Holocaust and later
heroism was immortalized
became a senator, died
in a film titled Sussman.
March 22, 2018.
“We say, those who save
Van Hulst and resistance
one life saves a universe.
activists smuggled the chil-
You saved hundreds of
dren to safety over several
universes. I want to thank
months. He was the direc-
you in the name of the
tor of a Protestant religious
Jewish people, but also in
seminary in Amsterdam
the name of humanity,”
with a yard that bordered
Netanyahu told Van Hulst.
on the nursery section of a Johan van Hulst
In 1943, a Dutch
facility in which the Nazis
c. 1980
Education Ministry offi-
and collaborators impris-
cial named Fieringa discovered
oned Jews before their dispatch to
several Jewish children at Van
concentration camps.
Hulst’s Hervormde Kweekschool
The late director hid in his
and asked for the meaning of their
school the children from the
presence there and whether they
nursery of the Hollandsche
were Jewish. In a 2012 interview,
Schouwburg, whom he and his
helpers would hoist over the hedge Van Hulst recalled telling him after
that separated the two yards. From a long silence: “You don’t really
expect me to answer that, do you?”
there, resistance activists would
Fieringa, an inspector, did not
smuggle the children to safehouses,
report back on what he had seen.
sometimes in laundry baskets and
The grounds of the Hervormde
other times on bicycles, pretending
Kweekschool currently houses the
the children were their own.
National Holocaust Museum of the
Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust
memorial and museum in 1973 rec- Netherlands. The joint wall car-
ries a permanent exhibition in his
ognized Van Hulst as a Righteous
honor.•
Among the Nations — a title for
non-Jews who risked their lives to

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