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Anna Balaban Obituary

Anna Balaban

Fair Haven - Anna Balaban, age 82, passed away on March 5, 2018 at her home in Fair Haven after suffering from a long illness. Anna, a Holocaust survivor, was born in Slomniki, Poland on July 10, 1935, and was the youngest of Esther and Jonah Blatt"s four children. Anna and her family were sent to the Krakow ghetto where Anna and her mother were able to escape and survived the war in hiding, while the rest of the family were all murdered in Auschwitz. After liberation, Anna and her mother returned to Slomniki, but found themselves unwelcome and unsafe. Anna and her mother were quartered for several years in the Bindermichl Displaced Persons camp in Linz, Austria before being permitted to immigrate to Israel. They made a home in Tel-Aviv, where Anna became one of the first stewardesses for the Israeli airline El Al. She credited her bridge-playing skills and her fluency in many languages for El Al's willingness to overlook her diminutive stature when they hired her. It was on a layover in New York that she met her husband of 49 years, Philip, who passed away in 2011. Anna and her husband settled in Fair Haven in 1967 where she worked as a Hebrew teacher, and a travel agent as well as being active in Congregation B'nai Israel. She is survived by her daughter, Nona Balaban and her husband, Dennis Drazin of Fair Haven and by her son, Victor Balaban, and his wife, Jamie Weisman of Atlanta, Ga.; her four granddaughters, Ariel, Liana, Isabelle and Shira; and her nieces Hadassa Yardeni and Ayala Keren, of Tel Aviv, Israel, and their children and grandchildren. Services will be held at Congregation B'nai Israel at 11:00 on Friday, March 9, 2018. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, at www.yadvashem.org or to Congregation B'nai Israel of Rumson, NJ.

Published by Asbury Park Press from Mar. 8 to Mar. 9, 2018.
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Condolences to the Balaban family. Please find comfort through family and friends at this difficult time. Even though the pain of this loss is great now, I hope this can bring you hope for the future: Hosea 13:14

Jamal

March 10, 2018

Sending our very deepest sympathy to Nona and all of the Balaban family! Please know that you are in our thoughts and prayers!

Sharon and Lynn Gilbert

March 9, 2018

Dear Family, I am so sorry for your loss. Please accept our deepest condolences. May God comfort you and your family during this very difficult time. (Psalms 55;22)

March 9, 2018

Anna had lived a long life. She is not in pain any more she is now resting .act 24:15

March 8, 2018

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