Ghity Ghitty Lindenbaum

NOTE: The obituary below states in the final paragraphs that Stanley, Gloria and Leonard were the children of Ghity Lindenbaum. However, family knowledge and http://goldschmidt.tripod.com/stern2.htm confirm that these were the children of Max Stern's first wife Hilda / Hilde, and were Ghity Lindenbaum's step- children.

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New York Times obituary

Ghity Lindenbaum Stern, 94, Philanthropist

Published: Thursday, July 18, 2002

Ghity Lindenbaum Stern, whose philanthropy benefited educational institutions in the United States and Israel, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 94.

Mrs. Stern had been honorary chairman of the board of directors of Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women. It was founded with a donation from her husband, Max Stern, whom she married in 1950.

Mr. Stern was founder and chairman of the board of the Hartz Mountain Products Corporation, a philanthropist and a fund-raiser for Jewish education. He was president of the Jewish Center, a synagogue in Manhattan, for 45 years until he died in 1982.

Mrs. Stern was one of the founders of the Manhattan Day School. She was also a supporter of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Ghity Amiel was born in Lithuania and married Nathan Lindenbaum in 1928. She fled Hitler's forces and traveled to New York City with Mr. Lindenbaum and four children in 1940 from Antwerp, where her father, Moshe Avigdor Amiel, was chief rabbi before he became chief rabbi of Tel Aviv. She lived in New York City the rest of her life.

Mr. Lindenbaum died in 1946. Two of her sons, Henry Lindenbaum and Stanley Stern, also died before her.

She is survived by five children, all residents of the New York area: two daughters, Maidy Jeger and Gloria Kisch; three sons, Armand and Marcel Lindenbaum and Leonard Stern; 24 grandchildren and 37 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Esther Mann of Tel Aviv and Sully Selbourn of Manchester, England.

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Ghity Lindenbaum Amiel Stern

Birth: 1908

Death: Jul. 15, 2002 Manhattan New York County New York, USA

Ghity Amiel was born in Lithuania and married Nathan Lindenbaum in 1928. She fled Hitler's forces and traveled to New York City with Mr. Lindenbaum and four children in 1940 from Antwerp, where her father, Moshe Avigdor Amiel, was chief rabbi before he became chief rabbi of Tel Aviv. She lived in New York City the rest of her life.

Mr. Lindenbaum died in 1946. Two of her sons, Henry Lindenbaum and Stanley Stern, pre-deceased her.

She married Max Stern in 1950.

She had been honorary chairman of the board of directors of Yeshiva University's Stern College for Women. It was founded with a donation from her husband.

She was one of the founders of the Manhattan Day School. She was also a supporter of Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.

Family links:

Spouse:

 Max Stern (1898 - 1982)

Burial:

• Kensico Cemetery
• Valhalla
• Westchester County
• New York, USA
• Created by: Maxine Kravitz
• Record added: Oct 05, 2012
• Find A Grave Memorial# 98323018