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- GOLDSTEIN, Rachel
December 14, 1946 ? January 17, 2015
It is with great sadness and deep love that Rachel's family announces her passing at the age of sixty-eight, on Saturday, January 17, 2015, at home in Montreal, surrounded by her loved ones. She is survived by her loving husband of twenty-eight years, Jim Elkind; her children, Aron Angel (Jane) of Los Angeles and Sally Goldstein-Elkind (Kevin) of Boston; her sisters, Rosie (Mark Hardy) and Adele (Ruby Friedman); and sister-in-law, Carol Elkind. Rachel was the oldest daughter of the late Majer and the late Hala Goldstein, both Holocaust survivors. Rachel will be missed by her nephews and nieces, Jamie (Joi), Ira (Sarah) and Jacob Hardy, Joshua (Sari), Hannah and Noah Friedman, and Zachary Poll, and many cousins and dear friends in Canada, US and Israel. Rachel was born in a displaced person's camp in St. Ottilien, Germany. At the age of two, she moved to La Paz, Bolivia, with her parents. Five years later, in 1953 the family immigrated to Canada and settled in Montreal, where Rachel completed her education with a degree in English Literature (BA 1970) and a Diploma in Education in 1972, both from McGill University. In 1976, Rachel moved to Boston where she raised her children, studied communications, and worked for Facing History and Ourselves, an organization which builds curriculum and professional development for educators to teach about the Holocaust and genocide. Rachel and Jim moved to Montreal in the summer of 2014 to be closer to family as she struggled with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Rachel was a teacher, writer, artist, and a published poet. She loved family, friends, words, witty repartee, and Jewish traditions.
Special thanks to Rachel's ALS doctors and teams in both Boston (Dr. Seward Rutkove, Dr. Robert Thomas and the Beth Israel Hospital ALS Clinic) and Montreal (Dr. Angela Genge and the Neuro ALS Clinic), CLSC Metro, particularly Valerie Vachon, Respiratory Technician, and her caregivers Roseanne, Grace, Rhobie, Michelle, and Susan. Funeral service from Paperman & Sons, 3888 Jean Talon St. W., on Tuesday, January 20 at 12 noon. Burial in Israel, on Wednesday, January 21. Shiva in Boston. A gathering to honour Rachel will be held in Montreal on Sunday, February 1 (details to follow). Donations in Rachel's memory may be made to the "Rachel Goldstein Fund for ALS Research" c/o Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (514) 398-1958 or online at www.theneuro.com, to Facing History and Ourselves Foundation, 16 Hurd Road, Brookline, MA 02445 or donate on-line at www.facinghistory.org, or to the American Society for Yad Vashem at 500 5TH Ave, 42nd Floor, New York, NY 10110, (212) 220-4304.
We will love you forever.
Published online January 19, 2015
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1946 - 2015 (68 years)
