Rose Barbara Kamin

Rose Kamin, age 101, passed away on Thursday, December 15, 2022, at her home in San Antonio, after a long and valiant battle with Alzheimer's Disease.She was born on January 30, 1921, in Geneva, Ohio, to parents Wolf and Lillie Brownfield Solomon. Her father had received Rabbinical and Cantorial training in Austria before coming to the United States. From this background Rose took her Judaism very seriously and she enjoyed providing the holidays for her family. There were 10 siblings of brothers and sisters, and they eventually settled in the Trenton area of New Jersey. She was an excellent young student and skipped several grades, loving school all the way. Rose took nursing training at the prestigious Bellevue School of Nursing in New York City, and it was during that time that she met her future husband, Peter B. Kamin, who was up in that area for a portion of his medical training to become a fine pediatrician in the city of his birth, Galveston, Texas. They were married in Galveston by the well-known Rabbi Henry Cohen in the home of Peter's mother, where Rose lived during the war. WWII took Peter away to Europe where he served in an Army Mobile Surgical Unit which provided urgently needed medical care at the liberation of several concentration camps. In fact, Peter had photographed several horrific scenes in the camps which today are on permanent display online via the USHMM.org National Holocaust Museum. Being a Jewish physician, he found it necessary to do anything within his power to see that the world found out about the conditions and resulting horror in the camps. While he was away for the war, Rose volunteered in Galveston in a community nursing program, providing house-to-house medical care. Rose was very proud and supportive of her husband in those humanitarian acts as well as others such as when Peter purchased a small medical office in Galveston which had two entrances, one with the sign 'Whites' and the other door sign saying 'Colored'. Rose remembered the day she helped Peter rip off those appalling signs and replaced them with 'Patients' and ‘Deliveries.' But that resulted in a short-lived boycott of pediatric referrals from other Galveston doctors to Peter. Fortunately, it lasted only a few months, and Rose assisted Peter in his office as a Nurse, and she was very proud to do it.Rose, Peter and their two sons, Wayne and Roy, eventually settled in San Antonio around 1960 where Peter began a successful medical practice of Pediatric Allergy. Along the way she had enjoyed symphonic and operatic music, tennis and dancing with Peter.Rose was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Peter B. Kamin. Rose is survived by her sons, Wayne Kamin of Austin and Roy Kamin of San Antonio.A private interment will take place in Temple Beth-El Memorial Park.In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Temple Beth-El's Rabbi Stahl Discretionary Fund.