EVA P. GOLDMANN

GOLDMANN--Eva Petschek, was born in Prague, Czech Republic, in 1920 and came to the United States via Canada in 1938. After training as a nursery school teacher, she practiced in Detroit and New York. She was a fine pianist, but too modest to enter the career professionally. Having studied education in England, she became an early education teacher at the Roeper School in Detroit, MI, and taught piano to young students. After moving to New York City, she became associated with the Diller-Quaile School of Music as a volunteer. Eva married the journalist Robert B. Goldmann, immigrant from Germany, in 1948. At that time, Robert was an announcer in German for the Voice of America. They shared a multilingual past, and a deep love of classical music, with emphasis on Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven, as well as Verdi's operas and Wagner's music dramas. Verdi's Otello, Wagner's Walkuere, and most of all Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg, were their common super-favorites. Bob's journalistic work - chiefly with the International Herald Tribune, while Bob and Eva lived in Paris, representing the Anti-Defamation League in Europe - was a new phase in their joint re-exploration of Europe, where they had spent a terror-filled-or-feared youth. Why couldn't the Europeans think of living as a community earlier, Eva would ask, in full knowledge that the time just had not been ripe. Eva loved her new country, and often encouraged Bob to do more exploring of the American landscape, which they did, but Bob, still yearning for a trip across the Atlantic, with Eva's in our time justified distrust of flying led her to cross on the QE2. Underplaying the distinguished past of her family in Prague, it was because she didn't have to show off, she never did. Her husband, children Peter, Andrea and Judith and six grandchildren mourn her and will never forget her.