Regina Blank

REGINA BLANK (nee Menczel), age 102. Beloved wife of the late Jacob. Loving mother of the late Judith (Steve) Ganz. Devoted and adored grandmother of Amy Ganz and the late Norman Ganz. Graveside services will be held Monday, Sept. 10 at 11 A.M. at the Zion Memorial Park. Family will receive friends at The Montefiore Home, FOLLOWING SERVICES UNTIL 4 P.M. A Holocaust survivor from Grzymalow, Poland, Regina survived the ghetto, slave labor, and a year of hiding in the forest. She was a remarkably strong, righteous women, a women of valor and loved by all who knew her. After the war she lived in Warsaw until 1957, when she emigrated to Cleveland with her husband and daughter. Regina worked as a seamstress at May Co. After losing her daughter, Regina raised her grandchildren and became their mother and grandmother. Regina retired to Florida in 1976 and moved to Surprise, AZ., at the age of 95, where she enjoyed many new friends and received devoted care from her family, including her niece Joan and husband Lou Gross. Regina was a lifetime member of Hadassah and active in many Holocaust survivor and history organizations. Friends who wish may contribute to the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History L.A. CA. or the Yiddish Book Center, Amherst, MA.

Arrangements under the direction of Berkowitz-Kumin-Bookatz, Cleveland Heights, OH.