She had escaped Hitler¡¯s wrath, but hate followed her. The 97-year-old Rose Mallinger is one of the 11 victims murdered in the shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh by anti-Semite Robert Bowers. The youngest victim was of 54 years of age and seven out of 11 had survived the Second World War and the Holocaust.
?Chuck Diamond, a former rabbi at the Tree of Life told the Washington Post that she would never miss a service.?
¡°She was a synagogue-goer, and not everybody is,¡± Diamond told The Washington Post. ¡°She¡¯s gone to the synagogue for a lifetime, no matter how many people are there,¡± Diamond said.
Diamond said Mallinger was his classmate. Rose Mallinger lived nearby in the heavily Squirrel Hill?neighborhood and was regularly seen in the street and local grocery store.?
¡°I feel a part of me died in that building,¡± he told the Post.
Rose Mallinger with her daughter Andrea who also got injured in the attack. FB
Brian Schreiber, the president of the Jewish Community Center of Pittsburgh called Mallinger a ¡°fixture of the congregation.¡±
Schreiber was quoted by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette saying Mallinger was a vibrant woman who looked much younger than her age.?
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¡°You¡¯ve never met a more vivacious 97-year-old,¡± Schreiber said. ¡°She was just so full of life. She had so much energy.¡±
Mallinger¡¯s daughter, Andrea Wedner, 61, was also worshipping at the Tree of Life at the time of the?attack and was wounded in the rampage.
She is expected to recover.?