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QUEENS WEEKLY, JAN. 20, 2019
Jakiw Palij died in Germany after being deported from the United States in 2018.
Courtesy of the Department of Justice
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Mindel
ness that is now known
as Adria Hotel and Conference
Center at 221-17
Northern Blvd. Her local
newspaper nicknamed
her “the first businesswoman
of Queens.”
Her business was built
around “the principles of
family and friendship”
and she was known for
treating her employees
and guests like family
and friends. Mindel’s
family continues to run
the hotel, which employs
over 250 people with full
benefits.
Mindel’s life began
June 17, 1928, as one of
11 children born in the
small village of Trzebinia,
Poland. When she was
11 years old, Nazis invaded
her hometown and immediately
murdered her
father and oldest brother.
Following the invasion,
Mindel, her mother
and nine of her siblings
were sent to work at the
Sudetenland work camp
where she “survived
death marches in the
snow, an encounter with
Joseph Mengele and tuberculosis.”
Her mother
and three of her siblings
did not survive the atrocities
of the camp.
Mindel and her six surviving
siblings immigrated
to the United States and
“remained close throughout
their lives.”
Once in America, she
met her husband Sam and
the couple were married
for 40 years until Sam’s
death in 1992. The couple
started their lives in Astoria,
moved to Little Neck
and eventually settled
in Lake Success to raise
three children and host
their extended family.
According to a New
York Times obituary, her
husband was born in Poland
during World War II
and also spent time in a
Nazi concentration camp.
He founded the Hydraulic
Plumbing and Heating Corporation
in 1952, “which
became one of the largest
contracting companies in
the metropolitan area.”
Both Mindel and her
husband were philanthropic,
often donating
to causes including UJA
Boston University Medical
Center, Hebrew Academy
of Nassau County
and The Holocaust and
Tolerance Center of Nassau
County, among many
others.
Mindel is survived
by her sister Rose, her
three children Marlene,
Joseph and Alan, seven
grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Reach reporter Jenna
Bagcal by e-mail at jbagcal@
qns.com or by phone
at (718) 224-5863 ext. 214.
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migration officials that he
had spent the war years
working on his father’s
farm, which was previously
a part of Poland and
is now in Ukraine, until
1944 and then worked in a
German factory.
In 2001, Palij admitted to
the Justice Department officials
that he was trained
at the SS Training Camp in
Trawniki. He was deported
by ICE in August 2018, sent
to Düsseldorf, Germany.
“We do not rejoice or celebrate
his death, but we do
breathe easier knowing that
such a dark soul no longer
breathes the air of freedom
on Earth,” said former Assemblyman
Dov Hikind in
a press release. “It also goes
to show that our efforts in
seeking justice were not in
vain, and reinforces our
commitment to ridding the
world of any last vestige
of Nazism regardless of
where it may exist. It’s the
closure survivors of the
Holocaust needed.”
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MARY MINDEL
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