The sobbing father of Joshua Ganzfried escorted the small wooden coffin from Congregation Kehilas Yakov Pupa as about 500 Hasidic Jews packed the Williamsburg street.
Shlomo Ganzfried, 38, lost a 2-year-old son, Amron, on June 26, 2004.
The tot drowned in a pond in Westchester County after wandering away from a service his parents were attending at a synagogue.
Struck Boy is Family’s Second Tragedy
A heartbroken Brooklyn family on Sunday buried a 9-year-old son struck and killed by a car – just five years after the boy’s younger brother tragically drowned.
The sobbing father of Joshua Ganzfried escorted the small wooden coffin from Congregation Kehilas Yakov Pupa as about 500 Hasidic Jews packed the Williamsburg street.
Shlomo Ganzfried, 38, lost a 2-year-old son, Amron, on June 26, 2004.
The tot drowned in a pond in Westchester County after wandering away from a service his parents were attending at a synagogue.
“His son should go up to heaven and hold his brother’s hand and go up to God,” said family friend Sammy Gumbo, translating the dad’s Yiddish sermon.
“It is a second tragedy,” Gumbo, 36, said. “The father is heartbroken. But he is a firm believer in God.”
Joshua woke up early Saturday to join other neighborhood boys studying Jewish prayers in exchange for candy.
The third-grader was part of a gifted scholar’s program at the synagogue called chevera tehillim, Hebrew for “friends of psalms,” neighbors said.
The boy was walking alone just a block from his family’s Flushing Ave. apartment when driver Novella Bilkerdyk, 54, plowed her Honda into him.
She was arraigned for driving with a suspended license and released, said a spokesman for Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes.
“No one said goodbye,” Shlomo Ganzfried cried to the crowd.
The family has six surviving children.
heartbroken
Ad Mosai!
Check Mezuzos
Time to check all Mezuzos , and Tefillin !
Hamokom Yinachem Eschem Misoch Shaar Avlei Tzion V’Yerushalayim.
someone
really very sad boruch dayan haemes
MY CONDOLENCE-S
THAT IS THE ONLY THING ONE CAN THINK OF, IS TO CHECK THE MEZUZOHS AND TEFILLIN. MAY THEY AND ALL OF K’LAL YISROEL NOT KNOW OF ANY MORE SORROW. IT’S TOO MUCH AND VERY HIGH TIME FOR MOSHIACH’S REVELATION!
Chilul Hashem
I think this from the NY Post is to show that some frum mishpochos dont take care of themeselves
that what people get from reading this
driver
why do they emphasize they write that he was alone and they dont blame the suspended licence
Concerned about the parents.
Yes this is very sad and very tragic. My on concern is (and not to sound mean) but why weren’t either of these children being watched by an adult?a 2 year old and a 9 year old? wondering ALONE they have six other children. Non of them are older and could watch the little ones?what about the mother and father?
sooooooo sad
i feel sooo bad !!!! hashem we nedd moshiach!!!!
hey, this is important
thats what happens with families with kenynah hara alot of children. the parents are overwhelmed and send the four year old to take care of the 2 year old. parents.. take a lesson.
dont be a careless jerk.
resident
SO Tragic!
To make things worse what bothers me is why
In Crown Heights you get arrested for driving on a Cell Phone
In williamsburg you get away (released) for KILLING someone on a SUSPENDED License!!!!!!!!!!
such a tragedy.
I think some of you are sick ppl speaking this way after parents lost 2 children. Do you have children of your own?? Have you ever had a child just wonder off? It can happen to anyone unless you put a leash on them. It happened to me, my 3 year old wondered off in a museum. Thank g-d we found him okay, but it happens to everyone. Just have some sympathy and wish the parents only simchas. This is not the time for your stupid advise.