I sadly inform you of the death of my grandfather Marcus Halpern, born in Czernowitz on July, 25, 1921. He was 98 years old. He was a soccer player before the war started. He also helped his father Yacov, who was a waiter at the restaurant Palazzo Nationale. By the end of the war he returned from Transnistria and married my grandmother Giza Wolfer (she died in August 2018). Together they travelled to Yugoslavia to try to get to Palestine aboard the Knesset Israel ship ( Aliah Bet), but they were trapped by the British and sent to the refugees camp in Cyprus. About a year later they were finally transferred to Palestine, in June 1947, aboard the Runnymede Park ship, and my father Arie was born during the trip, aboard the ship. Marcus fought in the Independence War and helped create our State of Israel. Unfortunately they were very poor in Israel and wanted to go to New York, where my great grandmother Miriam Gusta Halpern was already living since before the war. In 1952 my grandparents and my father left to France, and they were supposed to get the American visas there, but Roosevelt’s politics was stopping people from communist countries to enter the USA, so as Roumanians they didn’t get the visas and ended up coming to Brazil with some Czernowitz friends they met in France. They established in São Paulo, where he lived until today. He was a very nice man, with the nicest sense of humor, and lived happily. Marcus and Giza had two sons, nine grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren, who are now living in São Paulo, Miami, Los Angeles, New York and Toronto. We are all very proud of our Czernowitz heritage.
Baruch Dayan Haemet
Marcus Halpern
07/25/1971 - 02/11/2020
Ilana Halpern
São Paulo, Brasil
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