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CYNTHIA WAGNER,
67, of West Bloomfield,
died Jan. 18, 2019.
She is survived by
her husband, Lewis
Wagner; children,
Stuart and Maggie
Wagner, Hilary Wagner and her boy-
friend, Michael Goldeen, and Justin
Wagner; parents, Donald and Esther
Simon; brother and sister-in-law,
Robert and Debbie Simon; sisters-
in-law and brothers-in-law, Judy and
Steve Rapp, Renee and David Silbert,
and Dr. Bruce and Sue Luria; moth-
er-in-law, Rose Wagner. She is also
survived by Maggie Wagner’
s par-
ents; Stuart Wagner’
s father-in-law
and mother-in-law, Frank and Karen
Hsu.
Mrs. Wagner was the loving sis-
ter of the late Barbara Simon Luria;
the dear daughter-in-law of the late
Julian Wagner; the cherished grand-
daughter of the late William and
the late Sophie Freed, and the late
Harold and the late Gladys Simon.
Interment was at Machpelah
Cemetery. Contributions may be
made to Ovarian Cancer Research
Fund Alliance-New York, 14
Pennsylvania Plaza, Suite 2110,
New York, NY 10122, ocrfa.org;
or Gilda’
s Club of Metro Detroit,
3517 Rochester Road, Royal Oak,
MI 48073, gildasclubdetroit.org.
Arrangements by Ira Kaufman
Chapel.
CORRECTION
The obituary for Joy Landau (Jan.
17) should have indicated that she is
survived by her sister-in-law, Marilyn
Crantz.
6 Unknown Holocaust Victims
Laid To Rest In Britain
MARCY OSTER JTA
M
ore than 1,200 people
attended a funeral near
London to bury the remains
of six unknown Jews who died in the
Holocaust.
Fifty Holocaust survivors escorted
a small coffin carrying the bones and
ashes of five adults and one child.
The remains were transferred ear-
lier this month to the office of the
chief rabbi from the United Kingdom’
s
Imperial War Museum, where they
had been held since 1997, part of a
collection of Holocaust-related items
said to have originated at Auschwitz.
“We don’
t know who you are, your
name, if you were male or female
or the details of your family. But we
do know you were Jewish. All of us
here feel a strong connection to you,”
British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis
said in his eulogy.
“Surrounding you right now are
Holocaust survivors, unlike you who
perished, they managed to survive,”
he also said. “
And since the end of
the Shoah they have been your prime
ambassadors, bringing a message of
peace, togetherness and unity to the
world, educating all of our societies
about what transpired to you, with
the hope that it would never happen
again.”
It was Britain’
s first public funeral
for Holocaust victims, the London-
based Jewish News website report-
ed. It was attended by dignitaries,
Parliament members, representatives
from the Imperial War Museum,
a representative of the Queen and
members of the Jewish community.
Prince Charles sent a personal let-
ter ahead of the funeral, in which he
wrote: “As patron of the Holocaust
Memorial Day Trust, I just wanted
to write and say how moved I was to
hear about the arrangements being
made to provide dignified and final
rest to six victims of the Holocaust.”
He offered his “most heartfelt con-
dolences” to the Jewish community.