Lubavitch bubbe

SURVIVED SOVIETS, NAZIS; LIVED TO 106
Established girls’ school in Paris

VERENA DOBNIK ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK – They called her Bubbe Maryasha – a 106-year-old Jewish grandmother who survived the pogroms of czarist Russia, Soviet anti-Semitism and Nazi terror.

Members of the Lubavitch Jewish community yesterday announced the death of Maryasha Garelik, the grandmother – “bubbe” in Yiddish – who survived milestone moments of the 20th century, including the Soviet execution of her husband for helping to keep Judaism alive.