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Obituaries
Mrs. Marjorie Kuniansky
Mrs. Marjorie Bleich Kunian
sky, 89, of Atlanta died Monday,
Feb. 10. Graveside service was
held Wednesday, Feb. 12, with
Rabbi Alvin Sugarman officiating.
Mrs. Kuniansky was born in
New York City. She came to At
lanta with her family at age 9. She
was a graduate of Girls High
School and Atlanta Normal Train
ing School where she received a
teaching degree. After additional
study at Columbia University, she
taught in the Atlanta F*ub 1 ic
School system for several years.
She was active in local and state
PTA work during the 1930s and
’40s. The former Gov. Ellis Arnall
awarded her a citation for her
tireless efforts in behalf of juvenile
delinquents and for being instrumen
tal in starting the first school in
Georgia for them.
Mrs. Kuniansky was an active mem
ber of The Temple Sisterhood. She
served as chairperson of a study
group at The Temple for several
years, until she was 86. She parti
cipated in the works of the Council
of Jewish Women, volunteering as
a teacher’s aide in an inner city
school, and helped B'nai B'rith
Women with its Cerebral Palsy
project. She was also a member of
Hadassah.
In 1980 she was recognized by
the Older Atlantans Task Force as
an Outstanding Older Atlantan for
her years of unselfish community
service.
She was the widow of Isadore
Kuniansky, an engineer with AT&T
for 40 years.
Survivors include daughters,
Mrs. Harriett Ross and Mrs. Esther
Rawn; sister, Mrs. Lillie Lustgar-
ten; brother, Dr. Jack Bleich, all of
Atlanta; grandchildren, Hugh Rawn
and Mrs. Marcia Miller, both of
Atlanta, Michael Rawn of Canton,
N.Y., and Albert Ross of Denver,
and six great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the
Robert Ross Fund at The Temple
or to the American Cancer
Society.
Mrs. Sadye Jacobs
Mrs. Sadye Saul Jacobs, 98, of
Atlanta died Tuesday, Feb. 11.
Graveside service was held
Thursday, Feb. 13, at Oakland
Cemetery, with Rabbi Harry H.
Epstein and Cantor Isaac Good-
friend officiating.
She was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harris Saul of the Bronx,
N.Y. She moved to Atlanta with
her parents when she was 18. Her
husband was the late Hyman-S.
Jacobs.
She was a past president of Hadas
sah and she was an lma with
Hadassah in Israel. She was also a
member of Mizrachi Women,
Pioneer Women, B’nai B’rith
Women, and the Ahavath Achim
Sisterhood. She was a member of
Ahavath Achim Synagogue for 80
years.
Survivors include her daughter,
Mrs. Sara Jacobs Bagen of At
lanta; brothers, David Saul of
Atlanta and Alvin Saul of Day
tona Beach, Fla.granddaughters,
Mrs. Renee Rinzler of Atlanta,
Mrs. Robyn Dempsey of Green
ville, S.C., Mrs. Andrea Williams
of Roswell, and Mrs. Marilyn Od-
gen of Columbia, Missouri; and
seven great-grandchildren.
Donations can be made to the
Jewish Family Services Adoption
Escrow, 1605 Peachtree Road,
Atlanta 30309.
Mrs. Pauline Marks
Mrs. Pauline Marks, 78, of
Atlanta, formerly of Miami, died
Tuesday, Feb. 11.
Graveside service was held Wednes
day, Feb. 12, at Greenwood Ceme
tery, with Rabbi Arnold Goodman
and Cantor Isaaac Goodfriend offici
ating.
Survivors include her sister, Mrs.
Libby Cooper of Miami, nieces
and nephews.
Marilyn Klinghoffer dies
NEW YORK (JTA) — Marilyn
Klinghoffer, the widow of Leon
Klinghoffer who was murdered by
Palestinian terrorists during the
sea-jacking of the Italian cruise
ship Achille Lauro last October,
died at Lenox Hill Hospital, re
portedly of cancer. She was 58
years old and lived in Manhattan.
Klinghoffer’s strength in the face
of the incident gained her national
attention. She recently sought to
sell the rights of her and Leon’s
story of the Achille Lauro hijack
ing to a production company tor a
television docu-drama.
Marilyn Klinghoffer worked since
1972 for Gralla Publications in
New York, beginning in the circu
lation department.
Shortly after the Achille Lauro
affair, the president and the First
Lady met with the entire Kling
hoffer family in New York. She
also appeared before the House
Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on
International Operations, where she
declared,
“I believe that my husband’s
death has made a difference in the
way that people now perceive their
vulnerability. I believe that what
happened to the passengers on the
Achille Lauro and to my family
can happen to anyone, at any time,
at any place.”
A spokesperson for the Kling
hoffer family said that Marilyn
Klinghoffer had been diagnosed as
having cancer in the fall of 1984.
She was in Lenox Hill hospital for
two weeks before her death.
The spokesperson said the Leon
Klinghoffer Memorial Foundation,
established after the Achille Lauro
incident, will change its name to
the Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer
Memorial Foundation, and that
the family intends to continue on
with the foundation’s work
-This year-
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But Shcharansky defended him
self, despite being convinced that
his was “ a hopeless case from the
very beginning — all the more so
since I was declared guilty by Iz-
vestia a full year-and-a-half before
my trial took place and even before
the case was opened and the investi
gation began.
“ My people,” Shcharansky contin
ued, “have been oppressed all over
the world for 2,000 years. Yet, in
every place in which they found
themselves, they said again and
again, 'Next year in Jerusalem.’
Now, when I am further then ever
from my people and my Avital,
When I face long, hard years of
imprisonment, 1 turn to my
people and my Avital and say:
'Next year in Jerusalem. Next year
in Jerusalem.'”
In March 1980, Shcharansky
was transferred from Chistopol to
the Perm Labor Camp in the Urals.
In April, his mother, Ida Milgrom,
and brother, Leonid, were per
mitted to visit him for 24 hourqjgr-
the first time since his initial im
prisonment in 1978 that he was
allowed visitors. The following
September, they were again
brief period under heavy guard.
But Shcharansky’s health began
to deteriorate. He wrote a letter
complaining of severe stomach
and back pains. In early 1981, he
was placed in solitary confinement
which, in addition to poor food
rations, led to a further deteri
oration in his health. All of his
scheduled meetings in 1981 with
family members were abruptly can
celled, and his letter writing
allotment was reduced.
In Nov. 1981, a surprise transfer
once again brought Shcharansky
back to Chistopol Prison. It was
here, in Sept. 1982, on the eve of
Yom Kippur, that Shcharansky
began a hunger strike that would
last 109 days.
The strike was to protest prison
officials’ confiscation of his mail
and the refusal to allow him to
receive visits from his family,
despite such allowances under the
Soviet penal system. At the same
time, international support for
Shcharansky’s release began to
gain momentum.
Shcharansky’s hunger strike led
to an unusual move by then Soviet
leader Yuri Andropov. He sent a
letter, dated Jan. 18, 1983, in which
he stated that Shcharansky “had
contact with his mother and
ceased his hunger strike” in
Chistopol and that “there is no
response to an inquiry from
French Communist Party leader
Georges Marchais.
The hunger strike left Shcha
ransky in critical condition, and
during a visit by his mother and
brother to Chistopol, he com
plained of being unable to sleep
because of chest pains. In Jan.
1984, he again went on a hunger
strike, though only for two days, to
protest the blocking of mail sent to
his wife, Avital.
In Oct. 1984, word was received
that Shcharansky had been sent
once again to the Perm Labor
Camp where he was immediately
hospitalized in a “pre-heart attack”
condition. He was given medical
treatment. Milgrom spent two
days with her son there on Jan. 14
and 15, 1985. In Jan. 1986, Avital
said her husband had been sen
tenced to a new six-month term
in a labor camp for going on still
another hunger strike, again pro
testing restricted mail privileges.
And then it happened — word
was out last week that Shcha
ransky would be released and al
lowed to go to Israel.
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