[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 153 (Thursday, November 17, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2390]
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              HONORING THE LIFE OF ZOYA ROISMAN STEINBERG

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                        HON. CAROLYN B. MALONEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, November 17, 2005

  Mrs. MALONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to a 
remarkable woman, Zoya Roisman Steinberg, whose son, Moshe Steinberg is 
a constituent.
  Zoya Roisman Steinberg, who survived the Holocaust and was a pioneer 
of the State of Israel with her husband Jacob Steinberg, died on 
October 23, 2005, at nearly 100 years of age. After VE Day, Zoya joined 
the exodus of Jewish survivors en route from Eastern Europe to 
Palestine. Her guide was a decorated Russian officer, named Jacob 
Steinberg, who had fought with the Allies from Stalingrad to Berlin 
after his family was killed by Nazis in their Odessa home. Zoya and 
Jacob navigated through treacherous post-war Eastern Europe and endured 
two years in a Cyprus detention center for Jewish immigrants to 
Palestine before Israel's recognition as a State in 1948. They then 
entered Israel and built there a home, a family with their cherished 
son Moshe, and a country out of the desert and the ashes of war.

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