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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
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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.