Dr. Eva B. Bamberger Stahl

Dr. Eva B. Bamberger Stahl

Highland Park

Dr. Eva B. Bamberger Stahl was born on May 5, 1933 in Koln (Cologne), Germany. She passed away peacefully February 17, 2014 in New Brunswick, NJ surrounded by family and friends. With her family, Eva came to the US in September, 1941. One of Eva's earliest experiences was being put on a kinder transport to save Jewish children from the Nazis. Her father, Curt Bamberger, mother Alice and sister Dorothea, (who was too young to travel), followed shortly after and met up in Belgium. Two years later, after the German invasion of Belgium, Curt was rounded up with others and sent to an internment camp in the south of France. Alice, with Eva and Dorothea, made her way through occupied and unoccupied France to reunite with Curt after he secured release at the behest of a US chemical company. They were able to board a French ship for the US, which was ordered to turn back by the VIchy French. The ship went to Casablanca instead. Their journey was not over, the family went from Casablanca to Spain to board an old tramp steamer, the SS Navemar. The SS Navemar's usual cargo was coal and carried no more than eight passengers. On its last trip, the ship carried more than 800 passengers, who slept in holds covered by soot and in life boats during the seven week passage to the US. The Navemar was the second to last refugee ship permitted to dock by the US before the borders were closed and was sunk on it's way back across the Atlantic. The family initially settled in Buffalo, NY, then moved to Jersey City, NJ. Eva and Dorothea vowed to always be close throughout their lives, which they did. Eva first met her husband Ted while in high school. While Ted was convinced she was the one right away, Eva required several more years of persuasion.

Eva graduated from the then NJ College for Women, now Douglass, and went to Women's Medical College from which she graduated in 1958. Her senior year she and Ted were wed. She continued her education as a resident in Dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Near the end of her residency, their first child Douglas was born. Shortly after. Her children James and Lauren were born. Eva and her husband Ted moved to the New Brunswick/Highland Park areas with their children where she started a solo practice in Dermatology and became Chief of Dermatology at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital and St. Peters' Medical Center. During Eva's 48 years of practice, Eva was beloved by patients and respected and admired by her colleagues and all who knew her. Eva was active in the Temple Community, a founding member of the Bikkur Cholem, for visiting sick patients in hospitals and Hadassah-a Lion of Judah.

Eva cared deeply about her family, friends and community and all those around her. She brought disparate people together across he famous Friday night Shabbat dinners and through compassion and humor. She was a true woman of valor. will be greatly missed but would want us all to keep moving forward together.

Eva is survived by her husband of 47 years Theodore J. Stahl, her sister Dorothea and her husband Raphael Aronson, her son James F. Stahl, her daughter Lauren S. Stahl, her daughter -in-law Nathalie L. Hebert Stahl and her granddaughter Julia Abigail Stahl, her nephew Jonathan Aronson, her niece Dr. Lillian Aronson and her husband Richard Stein and their children. Her eldest son Douglas J.B. Stahl passed away in 2010.

Funeral services were held February 18, 2013 at Highland Park Conservative Temple-CAE, Highland Park, NJ with interment in Mt. Lebanon Cemetery, Iselin, NJ. Arrangements were under the direction of the Crabiel Parkwest Funeral Chapel, 239 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ.