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| Ester Simiryan (click for Jewish Magazine) |
It is with the greatest sorrow we announce that Mama left the world 24 Adar I, 5768 (March
1, 2008).
Her obituary appeared as follows:
Obituary:
Ester
Simiryan
Ester bat Shmuel-Yosif Branah Simiryan, a resident
of Charleston
since 2002, left this world March 1, 2008. She was born in Bendery, Romania
(Moldava/USSR,) June 30, 1914.
Ester courageously survived the Holocaust, the Stalin years and various pogroms.
In times of great peril, her faith in God and humanity never wavered. Ester managed the Railroad Clinic in Bendery
as a nurse for 30 years, an accomplishment that brought her many memories and pride.
In 1992, Ester left the former Soviet
Union as a refugee with her son, Yosif, and husband, Haim, in search of freedom to worship as a Jew in the United States of America. In 2000, she celebrated becoming
an American citizen in Rochester, N.Y.,
by kissing the American Flag and voting in the first free election of her life.
Ester was a woman of principle and strength and took it upon herself to provide solace and kindness
to any soul in need of food, safety or the strength to continue in times of hardship.
She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Yosif and Tovli Simiryan of Charleston; grandson,
Illyah Simiryan of Moscow, Russia; granddaughter, Tahina Simiryan of Ahsdod, Israel; and great-grandson, Michael Simiryan
of Moscow.
Ester was preceded in death by her husband, Haim, in 1995.
Her family will miss her forever.
A graveside service will take place in Sarasota, Fla.
In her memory, donations may be made to B'nai
Jacob - Hevrah Kadisha Fund or Chabad of Sarasota, Attention: Rabbi Chayim Steinmetz, 7700
Beneva Road, Sarasota, FL 34238.
Barlow-Bonsall Funeral Home is handling the
arrangements.
Excerpt from Ester bat Shmuel Yosif v’ Branah—A Memoir
Rebbenu
( z”l) taught: “We are obligated as Jews to tell the world
about the Shoah (Holocaust). There are two ways of teaching about this sadness: one, the way the world likes, is to tell how bad the other side was to us; the other
way is to teach the world who the six million were.
Mama sits in her big chair, the one we bought at a garage sale because she would never have accepted a new one. “Money is for saving, you never know when we might be deported.” ………
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