Two days after the operation he had a heart attack at night while
asleep, and the staff did not notice it.
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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:37:51 -0400
To: lea@mycabin.com
From: Steven Fodor <sigmanet@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Zelik's farewell
Cc: constructorg@mail.matav.hu, Dvora Mencher
<dmencher@qef.pps.k12.or.us>,
Tzipporah Kleiner <zipkl@zahav.net.il>, Pnina Isseroff
<pnina@ibm.net>
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Dear Panni,

Yesterday, we had the funeral of Zelik who died peacefully on Aug 2,
2000 following a heart attack after his surgery.

We met a warm and friendly group of his friends. They were very
dignified people, and most of them used already to say goodbye to a
friend from the old world. One of them, Haim went to the same heder
with Zelik in the old Wollbrom near Krakow. They grew up and became
opera lovers together. Haim
even managed to learn Italian while in transit in Italy. They spoke
also Russian and Polish.

The grave is deep in New Jersey, where most of the friends from the
Wollbrom area are buried.

Zelik was eulogized by the head of the Wollbrom society, and the
Yiddish speech was so eloquent that it brought most people to tears.
Zelik was praised for his activity in breathing life into the
organization. He certainly had a talent for the Yiddish language.

Susan and Murray also spoke a few emotional words about their father.

All of us cried a little together with Nina and Anna.

The support of the Wollbrom friends for each other is admirable. They

all live in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn a little heaven
for the people who suffered a lot in their life.

His life was a stormy 82 years. Saved by Russia from the death,
working in the difficult America, and finally provided a comfortable
retirement period by the American Union of the Garment Workers and
the US Medicare/Social Security system.

So much from a bloomy Thursday - Aug. 3, 2000.

Love

Istvan