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PAGE 16 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE March 28, 1986
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l Chaim
People doing unto others
League; and the list goes on
Whether she’s stuffing envelopes
or making telephone calls, she’s
happy to be needed. She believes
it’s a privilege to be of service.
At the V.A. Hospital where she
volunteers weekly from two davs
to sometimes five. Ginger pushes
wheelchairs, escorts patients, or
any job they request of her. And
what do people at the V.A. Hospi
tal think about Ginger? They miss
her when she isn’t there and feel the
hospital isn’t the same on her days
off. Yes, Ginger is a goer and a
doer. When she was diagnosed as
having cancer, she said that at first
she cried, but then decided she was
not going to feel sorry for herself.
She leaned over and looked me
right in the eyes and said, “Darling,
a person has two choices. You can
do nothing and sit at home or you
can go on and act like normal"
She added: “There are so many
people who are really ill at the V.A.
Hospital and I consider myself
fairly lucky.”
And speaking of lucky, that's
how 1 Ginger's friends have felt to
know her. One wrote, “God sent
Ginger to my life when ! needed a
guide and a friend.” Another
friend who was ill in the hospital
couldn’t afford a nurse. Ginger
stayed there for three nights just to
hold her hand and to be there for
her.
Ginger’s friends and family,
though, range from near to far
She still has family in Hungary
who cannot leave and she often
sends packages of clothing to them
and constantly keeps in touch.
Ginger was born in Hungary in
1906. In 1918 her country was
taken over by Czechs and in 1923
she went to Vienna, Austria, to
visit relatives. She met her late
husband Egon J. Goldhammer who
was an American doctor. In 1938,
when Hitler came, her husband
w as in Buchenwald. He was able to
get out and left for China. Ginger
followed him to Shanghai where
they lived seven years. They moved
to the United States and in 1952,
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A “call girl.” That’s what she
calls herself...because “when peo
ple call, she goes.”
Ginger Goldhammer, a young
ster at age 80, is a professional
volunteer. For the past 15 years,
three days a week, she has helped
in any way she can at the Veterans
Administration Hospital as well as
other organizations. When Kim
Cohen nominated Ginger for
L’Chaim she wrote: “I met Ginger
on a cold Saturday night at the
Shearith Israel night shelter. To
my surprise my partner that even
ing was none other than a small
Hungarian woman named Ginger.
She touched my heart that night
with her spirit and stories and
inspired me.”
Ginger’s abundance of inspira
tion is clear for I, too, was inspired
during our interview. What a-
mazed me most about Ginger was
her willingness to help others. In
fact, she only wished that she
would be called more often. As she
told me about her volunteerism she
always added, “I help them when
they let me.” This is a woman who
welcomes any opportunity to help
her community.
Those who have “let” Ginger
help include the Cancer Society,
Planned Parenthood, the Blood
Bank, ORT, the Anti-Defamation
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