Daniel DeVries
Daniel G. DeVries, 24, of Paramus, died on May 11.
He was a graduate of the Bergen County Academies and of Monmouth University.
Surviving are his parents, Andrea and Roger DeVries; a brother, Peter; his grandparents, Renee Wieselberg and Leonard DeVries; and his fiancée, Heather Miller of Morganville.
Contributions can be sent to Bergen County Academies, in memory of Daniel DeVries, attn: Peter Bellani, accounting manager, 327 E. Ridgewood Ave., Paramus, NJ 07652.
Arrangements were by Gutterman-Musicant Funeral Directors in Hackensack.
Mollie Grossman
Mollie Grossman, 91, a lifelong Bayonne resident, died on May 7 in Tuscan, Ariz., where she lived for the past three years.
One of 13 children, she worked in the Cancer Care Thrift Shop for 17 years.
Predeceased by two sons, Michael and David, she is survived by a sister, Irene Maher, and many nieces and nephews.
Graveside services were at Beth Israel Cemetery in Woodbridge; arrangements were by Gutterman Bros. in Bayonne.
Loretta Levine
Loretta Levine, 89, a lifelong Jersey City resident, died on May 12 at Morristown Memorial Hospital.
She was a social worker for the Jersey City Board of Education for 52 years and was active at Mt. Sinai Congregation on Sherman Avenue in Jersey City Heights.
She is survived by two sons, Dr. Yale and Abraham; a brother, Mordechai "Muttsie" Blaustein of Jersey City; a sister, Minerva Leonard of California; and seven grandchildren.
Graveside services were at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Fairview; arrangements were by Gutterman Bros. in Bayonne.
Rabbi Moses Mescheloff
Rabbi Moses Mescheloff, 98, died on May 9 at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago, Ill.
Born in New York City, he was the rabbi emeritus of the KINS Synagogue in Chicago.
He is survived by his wife, Magda, née Schonfeld; a daughter, Renah Bell, and her husband, Rabbi Alexander Bell; two sons, Rabbi Dr. Efraim and his wife, Felice, and Rabbi Dr. David and his wife, Irene; 16 grandchildren; and 55 great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels in Fort Lee.
Daniel Rakow
Daniel Rakow, 90, of Boynton Beach, Fla., formerly of North Bergen, died on May 9 at Heartland Health Care Center in Boynton Beach.
He was a retired postal worker and is survived by nieces and nephews.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels in Fort Lee.
Evelyn Straus
Evelyn Straus, née Schenkel, 92, of West Orange, formerly of Jersey City, died on May 12 at Compassionate Care Hospice in Jersey City.
Born in Newark, she was a member of the sisterhood of Temple Beth-El in Jersey City and a life member of Hadassah.
Predeceased by her husband, David, and a daughter, Michelle Raskin, she is survived by two daughters, Susan Pinn of Fort Lee and Ellen of Closter; a son, Robert, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
Contributions may be sent to Spectrum for Living in Closter or Compassionate Care Hospice in Jersey City.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels in Fort Lee.
Genya Yudina
Genya Yudina, née Grosfeld, 78, of Fort Lee, died on May 8 at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck.
Born in Russia, she is survived by a daughter, Lara Sambur, of Fort Lee.
Arrangements were by Eden Memorial Chapels in Fort Lee.
Rescuer of Warsaw
Ghetto children dies
JERUSALEM – Irena Sendler, who smuggled thousands of Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto to safety, has died. Sendler, who was later arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, died Monday in Warsaw. She was 98. Between October 1940 and April 1943, Sendler and a team of about 20 volunteers smuggled out about 2,500 children in boxes or suitcases. She then placed them with Polish families. As a social worker, Sendler visited the ghetto regularly. Sendler in 1965 was among the first people named by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. She also was made an honorary Israeli citizen. Sendler was nominated last year for a Nobel Peace Prize. She lived in relative obscurity until about eight years ago, when a group of students from Uniontown, Kan., learned about her wartime heroism and wrote a play about it. The play has been performed in North America and Poland.