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I am privilege to write two short stories about Rose Feld Rosman and Marion (Schlesinger) Intrator.
Rose was my wonderful dearest friend of mine and departed last year December 2001.
I have known Rose, since 1964 at Los Angeles for 37 years though Rose and I grew up separately, we seems to share common experience and mutual connection since we were young..
Nine children who evacuated from Germany and stayed at big Mansion convert to school at North England, Rose grow up with some of their parent's relative or older friends at East Berlin School for the deaf..
In 1946, at 10, Miss Ballinson, my favorite matron at Nightgale Lane Balham (London), put me in charged to take care of twelve years old deaf and partially blind who had evacuated from Poland. In 1920 at eleven, Rose was ordered by her headmaster of Israelite school for the deaf in East Berlin, to take care of 13 years old deaf and partially blind who had evacuated from Poland..
Both Rose and I volunteer in helping the deaf/blind. The Braille Institute Associate (BIA). Rose volunteered for 25 years. Together, we founded social club for the deaf/blind with BIA in 1981, where we would meet and worked with deaf/blind every week until 1990..
I greatly miss Rose. Because we share common life, I think of her as my lost sister, after the unforgettable war.
Addition another short story about Marion:
My husband Percy and I both attended the tombstone unveiling of Marion Intrator, that took place at Mount Sinai cemetery on Sunday July 14th, 2002. During the service I began to recall in our younger days going on a 4 hours journey by train to Havering House in Pewsey, Wiltshire. I was one of thousand children being evacuated to North of England during the WWII in 1939...
I remembered seeing Marion for the 1 st time, when I arrived our new school at 4 1/2 years old. Marion was the only girl at school with distinctive orange hair. She was known as a "Marmalade girl" to us. She also evacuated to our school with 8 others children from Germany in 1939. Before she was evacuated from another Jewish school for the deaf in East Berlin, her family had escaped from Germany to South of Spain and eventually settled in New York. Her family lost Marion for 4 years. Her family discovered Marion alive and staying at our school.
I remembered the day, when her older hearing brother with orange hair visited to our school to reunited and bring his sister back with the family living at New York. Everyone at school surrounded Marion and her brother. We all hugged, cried and laughed. Marion left our school and returned to her family with her brother, when she was fifteen and I was seven in 1943.
Years later, I saw Marion again at Los Angeles after my family immigrant in 1963. She gained respects and admiration for her proactive involvement with Temple Beth Solomon (TBS).
Ruth Morris - Los Angeles, CA
Dear Editor Sharon and JDA subscribers,
I got surprise, when I got a letter with prize for Jewish New Year card to design for the Jewish Deaf with art from Director Susan Cipin of Jewish Deaf Association in London, England. I am a joint winner together with Ruth Fallman (London) for artists competition. Interesting to get two same names of Ruth's on the card!
We enjoyed at your home for Rosh Hashanah on last Saturday, it was nice service with lovely lunch.. It was pretty crowd. Some of new faces... L' Shana Tova to you all, Todah and Shalom
Ruth Morris - Los Angeles, CA
Dear Sharon,
Thank you for writing the article on Jewish burial traditions at this web address: www.jdcc.org/sepoct97/docl.htm
My sister in law is Jewish and her mother passed away the day before yesterday (the graveside service is at 3:30pm today at Temple Beth El Cemetery in Livonia, Michigan). We had no idea about traditions of the Jewish faith during this time of mourning and found your article to be very enlightening. Thank you for taking the time to write and share it with the world! Thank you very much.
Jennifer Mielke - Canton, Michigan