BDE: Mrs. Rus (Reesi) Chein, 97, OBM

With great sadness we report the passing of Mrs. Rus (Reesi) Chein OBM, a Holocaust survivor and resident of Crown Heights and later of Melbourne, Australia. She passed away on Wednesday, the 17th of Shvat 5786.

She was 97 years old.

Born in Sighet–Marmarash, in the Transylvania region of Romania, to her parents, Yehoshua and Chaya Rivkah Sax, she was deported in the summer of 1944 to Auschwitz together with her family and the rest of Hungarian Jewry. A survivor of multiple concentration camps and forced labor, including an ammunition factory where she purposefully made faulty ammunition at risk to her life, she was eventually liberated in Bergen-Belsen in 1945.

After immigrating to Israel in 1951 and being introduced to her husband, Tzvi Hersh Chein, through the efforts of his uncle Harav Gershon Chein, they married in 1953.

After the wedding, they moved to France, where Tzvi Hersh lived together with his father, Peretz Chein. They, together with Peretz, eventually settled in Crown Heights.

From the day they moved to France until the day of his passing, almost 20 years later, Peretz lived in the home of Rus and Tzvi Hersh, where they cared for him.

She leaves behind children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her children: Rabbi Shua Chein (Crown Heights), Mrs. Sheyna Riesenberg (Melbourne, Australia), Rabbi Dovid Chein (Crown Heights), Mrs. Chaya Ridiker (Flatbush, Brooklyn), Rabbi Zalman Chein (Crown Heights) and Mrs. Malkie Gutnick (Melbourne, Australia).

The Levaya will take place in Melbourne at 6:00pm local time.

Shua, Dovid, Zalman Chein, and Chaya Ridiker will be sitting Shiva at 450 Crown Street in Crown Heights.
Shacharis: 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m., and 8:30 a.m.
Mincha: 4:45 p.m.
Maariv: Bizmano
Friday: Mincha at 3 p.m.
Visiting times from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m., and from 2:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m.

Malkie Gutnick and Sheyna Riesenberg will be sitting Shiva in Melbourne.

Boruch dayan hoemes