Anna Jacobs' Obituary
JACOBS, ANNA, of Aventura, passed away October 22, 2016. She was married for 68 years to her beloved husband Jack of blessed memory. The pride of her life was her family—3 children, six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Born in Wloclawek Poland on November 11, 1924, she was caught as a teenager in the maelstrom of the Holocaust, imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto as a teenager, and in the Nazi slave labor camps at Skarzysko and Czestochowa. She met her husband Jack in Skarzysko. They married in Wielun, Poland after liberation and eventually moved to the New York in 1951.
Her warmth and ability to love touched everyone she encountered. Her story is immortalized in The Memory Project Productions’ traveling museum exhibits, the award-winning film “Finding Kalman” and her memoir, “Finding Kalman: A Boy in Six Million.” Her story has inspired thousands of children to make portraits of Holocaust victims and survivors and to understand that we are all part of history. She is the mother of Harold, Fred and Rosalyn Jacobs, grandmother of Natalie, Libbie, Maya, Naomi, Eva and Reuben Jacobs, great-grandmother of Roy, Elie and Daria Gross, Itamar, Daniel and Shira Moyal. She is the beloved mother-in-law to Ariella, Karen and Laurie and sister-in-law to Henry, Gloria, and Stepha Jacobs, not to mention Tante to her many dear nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to The Memory Project Productions, Inc., a nonprofit that is keeping her story alive and honoring the memory of Holocaust survivors and victims. memoryprojectproductions.com. PO Box 20171, New York, NY 10014
Services will be held Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at 1p.m. at Levitt-Weinstein/Beth David. 3201 N. 72nd Avenue, Hollywood, FL 33024
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