36 January 3 • 2019
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36 January 3 • 2019
jn

soul

of blessed memory

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MICHAEL 
WEISENFELD, 79, of 
Greensboro, N.C., died 
Dec. 22, 2018. 
He is survived by 
beloved wife of 53 
years, Susan Weisenfeld; 
sister and brother-in-law, Minna 
and Dr. Murray Kling; brother, Paul 
Weisenfeld; son, Marc Weisenfeld 
and fiancee, Hunter Wells; daughters 
and son-in-law, Amy Weisenfeld, and 
Stacey and Keith Goldstein; grandson, 
Joshua Benjamin Goldstein. He is 
also survived by Robert and Beverly 
Dovitz, their children, as well as many 
other loving family members and 
friends.
Interment took place at Clover 
Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham. 
Contributions may be made to Hebrew 
Free Loan or Hospice of Greensboro. 
Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

SYLVIA WOHLMAN, 
94, of West Bloomfield, 
died Dec. 25, 2018. 
She is survived by her 
daughters and son-in-
law, Anita and Sheldon 
Pastor, Ruth Wohlman; 
son, Barry Wohlman; brother and 
sister-in-law, Morris and Rita Levine; 
niece, Robin Levine; grandchildren, 
Shawna (Brian) Apple, Richard 
(MaJing) Pastor; great-grandchildren, 
Noa and Talya Apple, Mia Pastor; 
many other loving family members 
and friends. 
Mrs. Wohlman was the beloved wife 
of the late Morton Wohlman; Aunt of 
the late Ernest Ryan Levine. 
Contributions may be made to a 
charity of one’
s choice. Arrangements 
by Dorfman Chapel.

 
Last of Ghetto Survivors
T

he major warning to 
emerge from the Holocaust 
was “Never Forget.”
This becomes increasingly 
harder as the number of survivors 
decreases. The latest loss is that 
of Simcha Rotem, the last-known 
surviving Jewish fighter from the 
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943. 
According to a story from JTA, 
Rotem, known as Kazik, died in 
Jerusalem at age 94.
Yad Vashem Chairman Avner 
Shalev said in a statement to 
JTA, “He was a courageous and 
resourceful young fighter … 
not a political figure but a man 
who fought for the memory of 
the Holocaust in its purest form 
and did so as member of the 
Commission for the Designation 
of the Righteous Among the 
Nations.” 
Rotem was born in Warsaw 
in 1924 as Kazik Ratajzer; he 
joined the Zionist youth move-
ment Hanoar Hazioni at age 12. 
By 1942, he was a member of the 

Jewish Fighting Organization 
and during the Warsaw Ghetto 
Uprising fought and served as a 
liaison between the bunkers in the 
ghetto and the Aryan side of the 
city. 
According to JTA, Education 
Minister Naftali Bennett called 
on Israeli schools last Sunday to 
teach about Rotem’
s life and hero-
ism in his memory.
He is survived by two children 
and five grandchildren. ■

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