Lili Blumentstein, a Holocaust survivor who chronicled her experiences in the autobiography Lili Lost, passed away Oct. 4, 2008, in Denver.
Rabbi Bruce Dollin and Cantor Martin Goldstein officiated at the Oct. 6 graveside service at Rose Hill Cemetery. Shalom Funeral Service made the arrangements.
Mrs. Blumenstein was born Sept. 6, 1925, in Romania.
In Lili, she took her readers through roundups, the ghettos and death camps.
She escaped the gas chambers at Auschwitz because her stomach rash attracted the interest of Dr. Josef Mengele.
Mengele sent people to the barracks to inquire about the little girl with the rash, but Mrs. Blumenstein managed to escape detection.
She was eventually sent to work at an ammunitions factory.
Mrs. Blumenstein was forced to join a five-week death march to the former Czechoslovakia, where the Russians liberated her.
In 1947, she arrived in Israel and served in the War of Independence.
She came to Denver in 1992.
Mrs. Blumenstein is survived by her children Rochelle Blumenstein and Abraham (Sandra) Blumenstein.
Contributions may be made to the charity of choice.
