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RUTH RINTEL Obituary
on March 4, 2017. Holocaust survivor, saved by Catholic nuns. Artist and art therapist who worked with the blind and schizophrenic. Ruth donated 30 pieces of her artwork to the Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, FL and to The Simon Schecter School in Westchester, NY. She was also planning on donating to the Holocaust Museums in Warsaw and Otwock, Poland. Beloved wife of Stanley, devoted mother of Gary and Robert and daughter-in-law Jenia. Cherished grandmother of Alec and Lisa. Services Tuesday 11:30am at "The Riverside" 76th St., and Amsterdam Ave.
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Lore , Dana,Karen Baer, Levenberg, Azaria
March 22, 2017
I was so saddened to hear of Ruth's untimely death. Ruth and I go back many years. And our paths crossed often, at art exhibits and Holocaust events.. Unfortunately we had not been in touch recently. Our similar lives are striking. I was also hidden by a Catholic family and both of my parents survived. I also worked as an art therapist wirh the mentally ill. We were both Teaneck residents. Our sincere sympathy to Her beloved Stanley and the whole family.
Zbigniew Nosowski
March 7, 2017
Let me write a few words of farewell to Ruth Rintel in the name of citizens of her native town: Otwock near Warsaw in Poland, and especially in the name of the Citizens' Committee for Remembrance of the Jews of Otwock and Karczew of which I have the honor to be a chairman.
Ruth was born in September 1939. On the first day of this very month German Nazi troops invaded Poland and the II World War broke out that brought with itself the horror of the Shoah. Young Ruth was condemned to die. But she survived in an orphanage run by Catholic nuns in the town. Her parents survived as well, hidden in Warsaw.
I have never met Ruth in person. We've been in touch only by e-mail. She shared with me some of her experiences and reflections. We used pictures of her artistic works in our publications commemorating our fellow Jewish citizens. There have even been some plans to organize a special exhibition of her paintings and sculpture in Otwock, in this year, for the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the Jewish community in our town.
I was happy to connect Ruth to Rabbi Harry Pell of the Solomon Schechter School of Westchester who every year brings his students to Poland and offers them a unique possibility to meet their Polish counterparts in Otwock. As Harry kept telling us, Ruth was happy to hear that in this way these kids were building a better world.
One of Ruth's moving sculptures is entitled Silent Scream. I think that her works very often screamed silently recalling tragedy of the Shoah. Let this scream be heard and let no more such horrors happen on our planet!
May her memory be a blessing.
JoAnn Lax
March 7, 2017
I am probably another of the Rintel family's long-lost relatives, coming from Poland to New York..My father was born in Trembola,a town in Galicia in 1917.His name is Morton Rintel, son of Herman RintelI know there are other branches of the family that came to America,but I have n ot succeeded in reaching anyone successfully yet. I realize that you are in mourning now for your beloved wife and mother and grandmother..It is a terrible loss to bear.I,too, have lost dear family,including my own husband. My name is JoAnn Lax nee Rintel,72 years old now,and I would be so happy if someone in your family would connect with meand the other descendants of what is basically a "Lost World" of European Jewry In Sympathy to all your family. JoAnn Rintel Lax. TEL.561-808-7376
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