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#	Noteringar	L�nkad till
301	Dog som barn.	Larsson, Lars* (I6480)
302	Dog som barn.	Larsson, Martina* (I6481)
303	Dog som barn.	Larsson, Ida* (I6484)
304	Dog som barn.	Larsson, Ida* (I6486)
305	Dog som barn.	Larsson, Agda* (I6487)
306	Dog som barn.	Olsson, Severin* (I6522)
307	Dog som barn.	Olsson, Carl Johan (I6527)
308	Dog som spädbarn.	Karfunkel (I12611)
309	Dog som spädbarn.	Karfunkel (I12612)
310	Dog ung*	Månsson, Clara* (I6508)
311	Dog ung.	Larsson, Oskar* (I6476)
312	Dog ung.	Larsson, Clara* (I6477)
313	Dog ung.	Månsdotter, Helena* (I6494)
314	Dog ung.	Månsson, Agnes Emerentia (I6513)
315	Dog ung.	Larsson, Bengt Fabian (I6529)
316	Dog ung.	Larsson, Knut Leopold (I6535)
317	Dog ung.	Larsson, Varselius* (I6537)
318	Dog vid 1 års ålder.	Mattiasson (Mattsson), Olof Edvard (I6309)
319	Döpt av kontraktsprost Johan Bäckner.	Ljungkvist, Mats Jakob* (I5884)
320	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Engdahl, Lisa* Marie (I6095)
321	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Persson, Anna* Cecilia (I6089)
322	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Persson, Johan* Roger (I6090)
323	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Persson, Kjell Roger* (I6088)
324	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Engdahl, Kerstin Cecilia* (I5908)
325	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Engdahl, Göran* Magnus (I5909)
326	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Hansson, Patrik* Torsten (I6098)
327	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Engdahl, Erik Tage* Göran (I5907)
328	Dopvittnen var Anders Aslagsson Lestorp, Barbro Jonsdotter. Han var torpare u. Åseröd, Hästängen, Krokstad.	Eriksson, Johannes (I12959)
329	Dövstum, lärde sig tala på dövstumskola.	Larsson, Agnes* (I6488)
330	Dräng tilltr. åbon på Fashult, Bro	Olsson, Elias (I164)
331	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Ljungkvist, John Hugo* Sigfrid (I5897)
332	Drev under en följd av år Stuvboden i Ed. Kassör i Evangelisk-Lutherska församlingen i Ed. Klara som var ogift blev alltså 93 år och mycket vital.	Gabrielsson, Klara* Ottilia (I6006)
333	Drunknade i Göteborgs hamn under tonåren.	Månsson, Anders Leopold (I6396)
334	Drunknade i USA	Larsson, Nicander* (I6533)
335	Dtr. t. Johan Leonard Mattson o.h.h.Selma Elisabet Niklasdtr. i Önna, Tossene s:n, vilka ägde Vese i Bro.	Mattsson, Gerda Karolina (I10560)
336	Dvora and Jozseph lived in Nagykallo. They had three children. The family was deported to Auschwitz. All except Jozseph was killed.	Frenkel, Dvora (Margit) (I13840)
337	Efternamn som gift: Lorincz, Lorintz. Hade två barn: 10 och 8 år gamla. Hon var i Nyiregyhaza under kriget.	Karfunkel, Dora Dvora (I10577)
338	Ej gift	Johannesen, "Margrete" Johanne (I123)
339	Elias var från Öhr, Dahl. Elias arbetade som dräng på Svensgården, Flo och flyttade år 1784 till Skulegården, Flo där han också arbetade som dräng.	Jonsson, Elias (I718)
340	Elisabet var från Röd i Krokstad när hon gifte sig med Anders.	Familj: Anders Jacobsson / Elisabet (Lisa) Larsdotter (F3413)
341	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Johannessen, "Else" Margrethe (I1732)
342	Emil kallas också Herzi. Han hade flera syskon kvar i Israel. Obituary, Intermountain Jewish News: Emil Hecht, Holocaust survivor, homebuilder, dies Dec 16, 2010 Emil Hecht SEEING him for the first time — a gentle, dignified man whose accessible brilliance and penetrating gaze drew you closer — it was impossible to guess the unimaginable past endured by Emil Hecht. Then Auschwitz and Mauthausan dropped from his lips. Through the decades, he shared his agonizing narrative with all who would listen — never letting the pain stop him, or stopping with words alone. Hecht, who died Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010, at age 86, turned tortured experience into hopeful action that transformed his community. He contributed the first endowed chair in Judaic studies at DU's Center for Judaic Studies with his wife Eva, securing future scholarly explorations of Jewish contributions to society. "This magnanimous gift assured the continuity of the center's program of exposing university students and the wider community to the significance of Jewish culture and its enrichment of Western civilization," e-mailed Rabbi Stanley Wagner, the first holder of the Hecht chair, from Jerusalem. An instrumental force behind CJS Holocaust Awareness Institute, Hecht firmly believed that education was a crucial antidote against another Holocaust. Prof. Sarah Pessin, current holder of the Emil and Eva Hecht Chair, told the Intermountain Jewish News that "teaching Jewish ideas within a university context — where people come together from a wide range of cultural and religious backgrounds — was of special importance to Emil Hecht." "He saw first hand in his experiences with the Holocaust what can happen when people are not given the opportunity to learn about and to respect the Jewish heritage and the Jewish people." Hecht, who had to rebuild his life from the ground up after the Holocaust, became of the most successful businessmen in Denver. Larry Mizel, chairman and CEO of MDC Holdings, met Hecht in 1966. "He was working as an accountant and did a financial analysis for my first business project," Mizel told the IJN from Hawaii. "Over the next three or four years, we became good friends, both personally and professionally." In 1972, Hecht and Mizel co-founded MDC Holdings. "Emil's influence in my life was extensive," Mizel said, "and not only in terms of his extraordinary business acumen. "I spent hours and years being exposed to and educated about what happened in the Holocaust. "Emil became one of the most public spokespersons among the survivors in Denver, reaching out to them individually and as a group through his dedication to establish a permanent foundation dealing with the Holocaust." Mizel said that Hecht, who inspired his own Jewish activism and often served as an informal advisor to his family, "was a very special and important person in my life. His presence and wisdom will be forever remembered, and truly missed." In his 2004 speech at a Holocaust Awareness Institute dinner, reprinted in the April 16, 2004 IJN, Hecht credited his solid educational foundation for helping him survive the Holocaust. "It was my faith in the higher power we call G-d and the spirit and rule of morality instilled in me by my parents and teachers, the knowledge of what was right and what was wrong, as well as an understanding of Jewish history that kept me holding out against all odds and adversity," he said. "Because of this deep faith and belief, I never gave up hope in my own survival, in the survival of my people and in the eventual triumph of justice." Emil Hecht was born on July 6, 1924 in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, near the Carpathian Mountains, to Leopold and Rivka Hecht. There were 10 brothers and sisters in the family. Nine survived the horror awaiting them. By the age of eight, Hecht was in cheder, which began at 5:30 a.m. and didn't conclude until 7 p.m. He attended a progressive Zionist high school where he studied multiple languages and memorized the works of British and American writers by heart. Nazism soon stamped its death rattle on the Hecht family. In 1940, his brothers were deported to a Hungarian slave labor force. They all managed to escape. Emil, his parents and sisters were spared until 1944, when he was 19. "In the middle of April 1944, on the last day of Passover, a Saturday, my father and I were studying the Talmud as was our custom," he said at the 2004 HAI dinner. "The forerunners of the German army were already in Svalava, our little town in the Carpathian Mountains." Jewish residents were unaware that the Jews on the Polish side of the mountains had already been killed. "On April 15, the next day, Hungarian gendarmes came for us. My parents, my sisters and I were rounded up by gunpoint in our home." Like all the Jews still living in the area, the family was marched into town and herded inside a synagogue, where parents desperately tried to reassure their children while struggling to subdue their own panic. "A feeling of utter helplessness against the menace we sensed came over all of us," Hecht said. The group was then ordered on a forced march to the train station. Carrying minimal belongings, they squeezed inside the airless freight cars, were taken to Munkacs and unloaded at a brick factory actually an improvised ghetto. Over the next few days, Jews from the surrounding villages crammed into the small yet heavily armed ghetto. Two weeks later, more cattle cars arrived. Many died from disease and dehydration before the train reached what the Nazis touted as the final destination of their final solution. Auschwitz. When clarity pierced the chaos, Hecht heard people crying "Wasser! Wasser!" Water! Water! Men were ordered into a separate line. Women and children were ordered to stand in another. "Everything happened so fast, under such tremendous, specially induced tension," Hecht said. "There was a terrible, terrible smell — like acrid, burning meat. "And before I could even say a word to my father . . . my mother and sisters were already forced away from us. Like helpless, frightened cattle, without an instant or even a single word spoken to each other, we all — parents, sisters and I, along with all the other families — found ourselves forcibly separated." His parents and his sister Eva (Yaffa) were annihilated. Two weeks later, he was boxed into another freight car bound for Mauthausen. Hecht soon realized that hell has many descending dimensions. "An SS officer said, 'Jews! You see that over there?'" The officer pointed to a tall chimney. "'That is the only way out of here for you. Through that chimney.'" Hecht suddenly grasped the fate of his parents and sister at Auschwitz. Because of his age and relatively fit physical state, Hecht was assigned to a work detail. "I was the first Jew who came to Mauthausen who was not put to death," he told Rabbi Hillel Goldberg in an interview in 1981. On May 5, 1945, General Patton's 761st African American Tank Brigade and members of the 71st Infantry liberated Mauthausen. Hecht weighed less than 70 pounds. Sent to a Displaced Person's Camp in Germany, he served as a translator for the Americans due to his ability to speak the stream of Slavic languages spoken by inmates. In 1949, Hecht married Eva Karfunkel, also a survivor. They arrived in the US on Christmas Day, 1951, and lived in Kentucky for one year. Then they moved to Denver. "My father loved Denver because it resembled a river valley below the mountains," said his son Jeff Hecht. "It reminded him of home." Years turned into decades. Hecht and Eva raised a family, doted on their grandchildren, and instilled a consciousness — and conscience — about the Holocaust throughout Denver. Despite Hecht's vast accomplishments, merciless nightmares plagued his memory and moral compass. Not a day elapsed when he wasn't haunted by the institutionalized hatred he witnessed and "wounded by the hate I experienced." At the 2004 HAI dinner, Hecht reminded the audience how miners would put a canary in a cage and carry it into the mineshaft. When the oxygen dropped precipitously, the canary would die. "The Jewish people are the canary birds of history," he said. "One third of the entire Jewish population of the world, six million Jewish people including one-and-a-half million children, perished in the most cruel and sadistic way. "In the end, as a result of a war that could and should have been stopped, an estimated 50 million people in all lost their lives. "And this is why I am here tonight telling my story." On Monday, Dec. 13, family, friends, Holocaust survivors, colleagues and admirers gathered at a graveside service at Mt. Nebo Cemetery to lay Emil Hecht to rest. Cantor Joel Lichterman officiated. A close friend who studied regularly with Hecht, he gave an emotional reading of one of Chaim Bialik's poems. Son Jeff Hecht recounted his father's astonishing personal history. Daughter Judy Dumontet recalled a time when she checked into a hotel in Tel Aviv. The concierge, upon seeing her name (Hecht) and her city of origin, asked whether she knew Emil Hecht. When she said she was his daughter, the entire hotel staff came over to her to praise her father, who had stayed at the hotel recently and befriended each member of the staff. After she got to her room, a large bouquet of flowers sent by the entire staff greeted her. Granddaughter Gillian Hecht, 14, said that when her father Jeff told her that "my Saba had passed away, he took my hand, looked straight into my eyes and said, 'We are the next generation of Hechts.'" One of her fondest memories was when her grandfather took her in his lap and sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from the "Wizard of Oz." Referencing the immortal song, Gillian said she knew that her Saba is now "way above the chimney tops. And all of his troubles are melting like lemon drops. "And though we might be angry with him for leaving us, someday we'll find him. Just like Dorothy said we would." "I look around and see the many lives Emil touched," said his daughter-in-law Mindy Hecht, "and I know this group is only a small fraction of the people he influenced." Mindy spoke about her first meeting with her future in-laws. "They had been married for over 45 years,? she said of that revealing encounter with Jeff?s parents. "I grew to love Emil as I saw him still delight in watching Eva just walk across the room." Mindy read a brief paragraph written by her son Tristan, who is almost 11: "I know we all have to move forward because this is what my Saba would have wanted. Everyone, remember my Saba." Mr. Hecht is survived by his wife Eva; children Jeff (Mindy) Hecht and Judy (Gilbert) Dumontet; grandchildren Gillian, Tristan, David, Daniel and Avital; and sisters Klara Harkavy and Rachel Spiegel. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements. Contributions may be made to the charity of choice. Emil Hecht, 1924-2010 Dec 16, 2010 The lanes and turnings of Mt. Nebo cemetery filled with cars of the family, friends, admirers and business associates of the late Emil Hecht. As much as it is clear to all that the cemetery is the end of this world for everyone — actually, in Emil Hechtcase, this was anything but clear. Clods of earth received his body as his soul met its Maker this week; this end was, for this survivor of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and various other Nazi designs of hell, astonishing. For Hecht, it was only too clear that the body was routinely burned and consumed and otherwise desecrated and denied its peaceful end. Czechoslovakia-born Emil Hecht's final journey to a cemetery — in Denver, Colorado, of all places — was an unexpected culmination. The way his life turned out and touched so many people surprised him and would have surprised his East European parents even more. Born and educated — very educated — in fabled centers of the pre-Holocaust Jewish world that is no more, Hecht and all but one of his many siblings survived the Holocaust. Hecht attributed this remarkable record to the assurances that his knowledge of Jewish history gave him — that no matter what, no matter how brutal and widespread the persecution of the Jews, they have survived, and always will. A frightening and paltry seventy pounds at the end of the WW II, Hecht originally sought a career in medicine, then quickly saw the life-and-death need to flee once again, this time from the communists. In flight, he became one of the "four horsemen" who rescued Jews for Palestine. Too ill to make the trip himself, he and the woman he married after the war, Eva, ended up in the US: dirt poor, misunderstood, not well. And determined. Their financial success, together with Larry Mizel, in the home building business, is now the stuff of legend. Emil Hecht, however, was not one to rest easy or to rest on laurels. It is hard to recapture just how controversial — even bullheaded — his endowment of a chair in Judaic Studies at DU, or his acceptance of the Parness Award by Hillel Academy, appeared to our community leadership at the time, some 25 years ago. Then, intensive Jewish education was simply not seen to be important as a Jewish communal need. Jewish education did not even enjoy lip service, let alone major funding. Emil Hecht knew better because his life story was grounded in a Jewishly literate background and a larger view of Jewish destiny. This speaker of many languages — including Hebrew and Yiddish — and this reader of the Talmudic Aramaic, knew that no long-term good could come from the massive Jewish illiteracy that beset American Jewry. Thanks to him and to other visionaries like him, this massive illiteracy, in which the assumption is that Jews can not read the Hebrew sources in Hebrew, has undergone incremental yet noticeable improvement over the past three decades. Emil Hecht spoke eloquently about the Holocaust and the prejudice that caused it. He put his considerable resources and moral authority behind programs that brought people together, with a special focus on programs that bridged believing Christians and believing Jews. He knew first hand the hateful role the church had played in the Holocaust, but rather than decry it, he did something about it. Perhaps the highlight of his philanthropic career was his receipt of an honorary doctorate from DU, together with Elie Wiesel. Some 1,400 people attended that memorable event in 1987. For Hecht, the evening was about education about the Holocaust, not about him. He reminded us once again that the true reward for good deeds is not the number of people who acknowledge them, but the deeds themselves. Hecht never sought anything but the deeds. When more people were educated about the Holocaust, he was pleased. When recognition came his way, this was but another surprising turn in his life, already filled with surprises. The special place that Emil Hecht occupied in our community was grounded, above all, in his character, his demeanor, his way with people. Imbuing all that Hecht said and every conversation he had, even when he disagreed with his discussant or with conventional community wisdom, was his imperturbable kindness, his humanity, his friendliness, his respect, his openness. Not given to rabid enthusiasms and exciting outbursts, he conveyed a deeper, more rooted commitment. His eyes were attentive, his attention focused, his point of view clear, his capacity to listen equally clear. It was a privilege to have known Emil Hecht. It was a privilege for our community to have found him among us.	Hecht, Emil (I97)
343	En annan notering anger 1990 som dödsår.	Andersdotter, Vendla* Kristina (I5982)
344	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Johnson, Irvin John Samuel (I9313)
345	En dotter.	Emanuele, Ellen (I9314)
346	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Johnson, Ernest Everet (I9316)
347	En dotter.	Hecht, Carolyn (I9317)
348	En son, död samtidigt med fadern. Han gifte sig med sin 2Kusin.	Dalquist, Johan Goliat (I8357)
349	Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.	Johnson, Verner Carl Oscar (I9302)
350	En son.	Hanson, Anna (I9303)

Noteringar

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301

Dog som barn.

Larsson, Lars* (I6480)

302

Dog som barn.

Larsson, Martina* (I6481)

303

Dog som barn.

Larsson, Ida* (I6484)

304

Dog som barn.

Larsson, Ida* (I6486)

305

Dog som barn.

Larsson, Agda* (I6487)

306

Dog som barn.

Olsson, Severin* (I6522)

307

Dog som barn.

Olsson, Carl Johan (I6527)

308

Dog som spädbarn.

Karfunkel (I12611)

309

Dog som spädbarn.

Karfunkel (I12612)

310

Dog ung*

Månsson, Clara* (I6508)

311

Dog ung.

Larsson, Oskar* (I6476)

312

Dog ung.

Larsson, Clara* (I6477)

313

Dog ung.

Månsdotter, Helena* (I6494)

314

Dog ung.

Månsson, Agnes Emerentia (I6513)

315

Dog ung.

Larsson, Bengt Fabian (I6529)

316

Dog ung.

Larsson, Knut Leopold (I6535)

317

Dog ung.

Larsson, Varselius* (I6537)

318

Dog vid 1 års ålder.

Mattiasson (Mattsson), Olof Edvard (I6309)

319

Döpt av kontraktsprost Johan Bäckner.

Ljungkvist, Mats Jakob* (I5884)

320

Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.

Engdahl, Lisa* Marie (I6095)

321

Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.

Persson, Anna* Cecilia (I6089)

322

Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.

Persson, Johan* Roger (I6090)

323

Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.

Persson, Kjell Roger* (I6088)

324

Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.

Engdahl, Kerstin Cecilia* (I5908)

325

Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.

Engdahl, Göran* Magnus (I5909)

326

Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.

Hansson, Patrik* Torsten (I6098)

327

Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.

Engdahl, Erik Tage* Göran (I5907)

328

Dopvittnen var Anders Aslagsson Lestorp, Barbro Jonsdotter.

Han var torpare u. Åseröd, Hästängen, Krokstad.

Eriksson, Johannes (I12959)

329

Dövstum, lärde sig tala på dövstumskola.

Larsson, Agnes* (I6488)

330

Dräng tilltr. åbon på Fashult, Bro

Olsson, Elias (I164)

331

Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.

Ljungkvist, John Hugo* Sigfrid (I5897)

332

Drev under en följd av år Stuvboden i Ed.
Kassör i Evangelisk-Lutherska församlingen i Ed.
Klara som var ogift blev alltså 93 år och mycket vital.

Gabrielsson, Klara* Ottilia (I6006)

333

Drunknade i Göteborgs hamn under tonåren.

Månsson, Anders Leopold (I6396)

334

Drunknade i USA

Larsson, Nicander* (I6533)

335

Dtr. t. Johan Leonard Mattson o.h.h.Selma Elisabet Niklasdtr. i Önna, Tossene s:n, vilka ägde Vese i Bro.

Mattsson, Gerda Karolina (I10560)

336

Dvora and Jozseph lived in Nagykallo. They had three children. The family was deported to Auschwitz. All except Jozseph was killed.

Frenkel, Dvora (Margit) (I13840)

337

Efternamn som gift: Lorincz, Lorintz.

Hade två barn: 10 och 8 år gamla.

Hon var i Nyiregyhaza under kriget.

Karfunkel, Dora Dvora (I10577)

338

Ej gift

Johannesen, "Margrete" Johanne (I123)

339

Elias var från Öhr, Dahl.
Elias arbetade som dräng på Svensgården, Flo och flyttade år 1784 till Skulegården, Flo där han också arbetade som dräng.

Jonsson, Elias (I718)

340

Elisabet var från Röd i Krokstad när hon gifte sig med Anders.

Familj: Anders Jacobsson / Elisabet (Lisa) Larsdotter (F3413)

341

Minst en levande person �r l�nkad till denna notering - Detaljer visas inte.

Johannessen, "Else" Margrethe (I1732)

342

Emil kallas också Herzi.
Han hade flera syskon kvar i Israel.

Obituary, Intermountain Jewish News:

Emil Hecht, Holocaust survivor, homebuilder, dies
Dec 16, 2010
Emil Hecht
SEEING him for the first time — a gentle, dignified man whose accessible brilliance and penetrating gaze drew you closer — it was impossible to guess the unimaginable past endured by Emil Hecht.

Then Auschwitz and Mauthausan dropped from his lips.

Through the decades, he shared his agonizing narrative with all who would listen — never letting the pain stop him, or stopping with words alone.

Hecht, who died Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010, at age 86, turned tortured experience into hopeful action that transformed his community.

He contributed the first endowed chair in Judaic studies at DU's Center for Judaic Studies with his wife Eva, securing future scholarly explorations of Jewish contributions to society.

"This magnanimous gift assured the continuity of the center's program of exposing university students and the wider community to the significance of Jewish culture and its enrichment of Western civilization," e-mailed Rabbi Stanley Wagner, the first holder of the Hecht chair, from Jerusalem.

An instrumental force behind CJS Holocaust Awareness Institute, Hecht firmly believed that education was a crucial antidote against another Holocaust.

Prof. Sarah Pessin, current holder of the Emil and Eva Hecht Chair, told the Intermountain Jewish News that "teaching Jewish ideas within a university context — where people come together from a wide range of cultural and religious backgrounds — was of special importance to Emil Hecht."

"He saw first hand in his experiences with the Holocaust what can happen when people are not given the opportunity to learn about and to respect the Jewish heritage and the Jewish people."

Hecht, who had to rebuild his life from the ground up after the Holocaust, became of the most successful businessmen in Denver.

Larry Mizel, chairman and CEO of MDC Holdings, met Hecht in 1966.

"He was working as an accountant and did a financial analysis for my first business project," Mizel told the IJN from Hawaii.

"Over the next three or four years, we became good friends, both personally and professionally."

In 1972, Hecht and Mizel co-founded MDC Holdings.

"Emil's influence in my life was extensive," Mizel said, "and not only in terms of his extraordinary business acumen.

"I spent hours and years being exposed to and educated about what happened in the Holocaust.

"Emil became one of the most public spokespersons among the survivors in Denver, reaching out to them individually and as a group through his dedication to establish a permanent foundation dealing with the Holocaust."

Mizel said that Hecht, who inspired his own Jewish activism and often served as an informal advisor to his family, "was a very special and important person in my life. His presence and wisdom will be forever remembered, and truly missed."

In his 2004 speech at a Holocaust Awareness Institute dinner, reprinted in the April 16, 2004 IJN, Hecht credited his solid educational foundation for helping him survive the Holocaust.

"It was my faith in the higher power we call G-d and the spirit and rule of morality instilled in me by my parents and teachers, the knowledge of what was right and what was wrong, as well as an understanding of Jewish history that kept me holding out against all odds and adversity," he said.

"Because of this deep faith and belief, I never gave up hope in my own survival, in the survival of my people and in the eventual triumph of justice."

Emil Hecht was born on July 6, 1924 in Svalava, Czechoslovakia, near the Carpathian Mountains, to Leopold and Rivka Hecht.

There were 10 brothers and sisters in the family. Nine survived the horror awaiting them.

By the age of eight, Hecht was in cheder, which began at 5:30 a.m. and didn't conclude until 7 p.m.

He attended a progressive Zionist high school where he studied multiple languages and memorized the works of British and American writers by heart. Nazism soon stamped its death rattle on the Hecht family.

In 1940, his brothers were deported to a Hungarian slave labor force. They all managed to escape.

Emil, his parents and sisters were spared until 1944, when he was 19.

"In the middle of April 1944, on the last day of Passover, a Saturday, my father and I were studying the Talmud as was our custom," he said at the 2004 HAI dinner.

"The forerunners of the German army were already in Svalava, our little town in the Carpathian Mountains."

Jewish residents were unaware that the Jews on the Polish side of the mountains had already been killed.

"On April 15, the next day, Hungarian gendarmes came for us. My parents, my sisters and I were rounded up by gunpoint in our home."

Like all the Jews still living in the area, the family was marched into town and herded inside a synagogue, where parents desperately tried to reassure their children while struggling to subdue their own panic.

"A feeling of utter helplessness against the menace we sensed came over all of us," Hecht said.

The group was then ordered on a forced march to the train station.

Carrying minimal belongings, they squeezed inside the airless freight cars, were taken to Munkacs and unloaded at a brick factory actually an improvised ghetto.

Over the next few days, Jews from the surrounding villages crammed into the small yet heavily armed ghetto.

Two weeks later, more cattle cars arrived.

Many died from disease and dehydration before the train reached what the Nazis touted as the final destination of their final solution. Auschwitz.

When clarity pierced the chaos, Hecht heard people crying "Wasser! Wasser!" Water! Water!

Men were ordered into a separate line. Women and children were ordered to stand in another.

"Everything happened so fast, under such tremendous, specially induced tension," Hecht said. "There was a terrible, terrible smell — like acrid, burning meat.

"And before I could even say a word to my father . . . my mother and sisters were already forced away from us. Like helpless, frightened cattle, without an instant or even a single word spoken to each other, we all — parents, sisters and I, along with all the other families — found ourselves forcibly separated."

His parents and his sister Eva (Yaffa) were annihilated.

Two weeks later, he was boxed into another freight car bound for Mauthausen.

Hecht soon realized that hell has many descending dimensions.

"An SS officer said, 'Jews! You see that over there?'" The officer pointed to a tall chimney. "'That is the only way out of here for you. Through that chimney.'"

Hecht suddenly grasped the fate of his parents and sister at Auschwitz.

Because of his age and relatively fit physical state, Hecht was assigned to a work detail.

"I was the first Jew who came to Mauthausen who was not put to death," he told Rabbi Hillel Goldberg in an interview in 1981.

On May 5, 1945, General Patton's 761st African American Tank Brigade and members of the 71st Infantry liberated Mauthausen.

Hecht weighed less than 70 pounds.

Sent to a Displaced Person's Camp in Germany, he served as a translator for the Americans due to his ability to speak the stream of Slavic languages spoken by inmates.

In 1949, Hecht married Eva Karfunkel, also a survivor. They arrived in the US on Christmas Day, 1951, and lived in Kentucky for one year. Then they moved to Denver.

"My father loved Denver because it resembled a river valley below the mountains," said his son Jeff Hecht. "It reminded him of home."

Years turned into decades. Hecht and Eva raised a family, doted on their grandchildren, and instilled a consciousness — and conscience — about the Holocaust throughout Denver.

Despite Hecht's vast accomplishments, merciless nightmares plagued his memory and moral compass.

Not a day elapsed when he wasn't haunted by the institutionalized hatred he witnessed and "wounded by the hate I experienced."

At the 2004 HAI dinner, Hecht reminded the audience how miners would put a canary in a cage and carry it into the mineshaft. When the oxygen dropped precipitously, the canary would die.

"The Jewish people are the canary birds of history," he said.

"One third of the entire Jewish population of the world, six million Jewish people including one-and-a-half million children, perished in the most cruel and sadistic way.

"In the end, as a result of a war that could and should have been stopped, an estimated 50 million people in all lost their lives.

"And this is why I am here tonight telling my story."

On Monday, Dec. 13, family, friends, Holocaust survivors, colleagues and admirers gathered at a graveside service at Mt. Nebo Cemetery to lay Emil Hecht to rest.

Cantor Joel Lichterman officiated. A close friend who studied regularly with Hecht, he gave an emotional reading of one of Chaim Bialik's poems. Son Jeff Hecht recounted his father's astonishing personal history.

Daughter Judy Dumontet recalled a time when she checked into a hotel in Tel Aviv.

The concierge, upon seeing her name (Hecht) and her city of origin, asked whether she knew Emil Hecht.

When she said she was his daughter, the entire hotel staff came over to her to praise her father, who had stayed at the hotel recently and befriended each member of the staff.

After she got to her room, a large bouquet of flowers sent by the entire staff greeted her.

Granddaughter Gillian Hecht, 14, said that when her father Jeff told her that "my Saba had passed away, he took my hand, looked straight into my eyes and said, 'We are the next generation of Hechts.'"

One of her fondest memories was when her grandfather took her in his lap and sang "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from the "Wizard of Oz."

Referencing the immortal song, Gillian said she knew that her Saba is now "way above the chimney tops. And all of his troubles are melting like lemon drops.

"And though we might be angry with him for leaving us, someday we'll find him. Just like Dorothy said we would."

"I look around and see the many lives Emil touched," said his daughter-in-law Mindy Hecht, "and I know this group is only a small fraction of the people he influenced."

Mindy spoke about her first meeting with her future in-laws.

"They had been married for over 45 years,? she said of that revealing encounter with Jeff?s parents.

"I grew to love Emil as I saw him still delight in watching Eva just walk across the room."

Mindy read a brief paragraph written by her son Tristan, who is almost 11:

"I know we all have to move forward because this is what my Saba would have wanted. Everyone, remember my Saba."

Mr. Hecht is survived by his wife Eva; children Jeff (Mindy) Hecht and Judy (Gilbert) Dumontet; grandchildren Gillian, Tristan, David, Daniel and Avital; and sisters Klara Harkavy and Rachel Spiegel. Feldman Mortuary made the arrangements.

Contributions may be made to the charity of choice.

Emil Hecht, 1924-2010
Dec 16, 2010
The lanes and turnings of Mt. Nebo cemetery filled with cars of the family, friends, admirers and business associates of the late Emil Hecht. As much as it is clear to all that the cemetery is the end of this world for everyone — actually, in Emil Hechtcase, this was anything but clear. Clods of earth received his body as his soul met its Maker this week; this end was, for this survivor of Auschwitz, Mauthausen and various other Nazi designs of hell, astonishing. For Hecht, it was only too clear that the body was routinely burned and consumed and otherwise desecrated and denied its peaceful end.

Czechoslovakia-born Emil Hecht's final journey to a cemetery — in Denver, Colorado, of all places — was an unexpected culmination. The way his life turned out and touched so many people surprised him and would have surprised his East European parents even more.

Born and educated — very educated — in fabled centers of the pre-Holocaust Jewish world that is no more, Hecht and all but one of his many siblings survived the Holocaust. Hecht attributed this remarkable record to the assurances that his knowledge of Jewish history gave him — that no matter what, no matter how brutal and widespread the persecution of the Jews, they have survived, and always will.

A frightening and paltry seventy pounds at the end of the WW II, Hecht originally sought a career in medicine, then quickly saw the life-and-death need to flee once again, this time from the communists. In flight, he became one of the "four horsemen" who rescued Jews for Palestine. Too ill to make the trip himself, he and the woman he married after the war, Eva, ended up in the US: dirt poor, misunderstood, not well. And determined. Their financial success, together with Larry Mizel, in the home building business, is now the stuff of legend.

Emil Hecht, however, was not one to rest easy or to rest on laurels.

It is hard to recapture just how controversial — even bullheaded — his endowment of a chair in Judaic Studies at DU, or his acceptance of the Parness Award by Hillel Academy, appeared to our community leadership at the time, some 25 years ago. Then, intensive Jewish education was simply not seen to be important as a Jewish communal need. Jewish education did not even enjoy lip service, let alone major funding.

Emil Hecht knew better because his life story was grounded in a Jewishly literate background and a larger view of Jewish destiny. This speaker of many languages — including Hebrew and Yiddish — and this reader of the Talmudic Aramaic, knew that no long-term good could come from the massive Jewish illiteracy that beset American Jewry. Thanks to him and to other visionaries like him, this massive illiteracy, in which the assumption is that Jews can not read the Hebrew sources in Hebrew, has undergone incremental yet noticeable improvement over the past three decades.

Emil Hecht spoke eloquently about the Holocaust and the prejudice that caused it. He put his considerable resources and moral authority behind programs that brought people together, with a special focus on programs that bridged believing Christians and believing Jews. He knew first hand the hateful role the church had played in the Holocaust, but rather than decry it, he did something about it.

Perhaps the highlight of his philanthropic career was his receipt of an honorary doctorate from DU, together with Elie Wiesel. Some 1,400 people attended that memorable event in 1987. For Hecht, the evening was about education about the Holocaust, not about him. He reminded us once again that the true reward for good deeds is not the number of people who acknowledge them, but the deeds themselves. Hecht never sought anything but the deeds.

When more people were educated about the Holocaust, he was pleased. When recognition came his way, this was but another surprising turn in his life, already filled with surprises.

The special place that Emil Hecht occupied in our community was grounded, above all, in his character, his demeanor, his way with people. Imbuing all that Hecht said and every conversation he had, even when he disagreed with his discussant or with conventional community wisdom, was his imperturbable kindness, his humanity, his friendliness, his respect, his openness. Not given to rabid enthusiasms and exciting outbursts, he conveyed a deeper, more rooted commitment. His eyes were attentive, his attention focused, his point of view clear, his capacity to listen equally clear.

It was a privilege to have known Emil Hecht. It was a privilege for our community to have found him among us.

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