Receive emails when new obituariesare published to our website Each of our funeral homes offers a complete range of services in tastefully decorated Professionally trained and licensed staff members stand ready to provide sensitive caring service and strive to exceed the expectations of each and every family.Our communities are wonderfully diverse in religious beliefs Our staff truly appreciates these differences and our training includes heartfelt understanding and respect for the special needs of all whom we serve Hartford | Windsor | Poquonock | Granby | Suffield | South Windsor | Rockville | Vernon | Avon© Carmon Community Funeral Homes | Funeral Home Website Design By Frazer Consultants & TA Your browser may not work with certain site. Upgrade now. Annie Bleiberg with husband David Bleiberg on their wedding day in 1946 Annie Bleiberg jumped off a train on the way to the Nazis’ Belzec concentration camp and later survived Auschwitz — events she regularly described to visitors to the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove Her legacy will live on among those who heard her speak “Annie Bleiberg stood out to me among the Holocaust survivors in terms of her resilience her strength and her determination to not let what happened to her in her past affect her life that followed afterward,” he said “I think she provided a very strong lesson to young people and to adults as well that you need to overcome whatever happened to you and we all have to find our inner strength.” Bleiberg died  of heart failure while at the Glen Cove Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation best known for the 1978 disco classic “I Will Survive,” contacted the Nassau Holocaust center asking to speak with a Holocaust survivor for inclusion in her 2014 book “We Will Survive: True Stories of Encouragement And the Power of Song.” Markowitz connected her with Bleiberg From breaking news to special features and documentaries the NewsdayTV team is covering the issues that matter to you By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy “We became instant friends,” Gaynor said Sunday in a telephone interview “What drew me to Annie is that she suffered so much and yet was so giving “Her eyes lit up when she saw Gloria,” Gold said After she jumped off the train and walked back to Oleszyce a Christian family sheltered her until a member of the Polish underground gave her a false identification card she was thrown into a jail in the Jewish ghetto in Krakow she was sent to Auschwitz and then to a Czechoslovakian work camp until Soviet soldiers liberated it in 1945 Her mother and younger sister died in concentration camps where in 1946 she married a childhood friend Annie Bleiberg didn’t talk often about the Holocaust “She didn’t want me to be upset that I was Jewish,” Seperson said All you heard is the Jews were victims and she didn’t want me to grow up thinking I was a victim.” It wasn’t until the two attended the opening of the U.S in 1993 that she heard her mother’s entire story “I think she was ready to talk about it,” Seperson said Bleiberg became a docent at the Nassau County center “She felt very strongly no one should forget,”  Seperson said anti-Semitism would again rear its ugly head” as the Holocaust receded into the past and she was dismayed to see a resurgence in anti-Semitism before she died Bleiberg is survived by son-in-law Robert Seperson of Locust Valley three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.ervices were held at Gutterman’s Funeral Directors in Woodbury and interment was  in Mount Ararat Cemetery in Lindenhurst Get more on these and other NewsdayTV stories The Newsday app makes it easier to access content without having to log in Unlimited Digital AccessOnly 25¢for 6 months