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Gingold, Alice – 90, of Egg Harbor Township, passed away peacefully in her home at 5:35 PM on Monday, December 29, 2014. Born Alice Glasgall on April 21, 1924 in Vienna, Austria, she immigrated to the United States in 1938 with her brother, Martin, and settled with cousins in Patterson. Her parents, Georg and Hanna, joined them in 1940. Alice worked her way up from being a seamstress to a department store buyer in the New York area. She became a naturalized citizen in 1946, at age 21. In 1950, she married a pharmacist named Sol Gingold in New York City. They lived in Oneida, New York, through most of the 1950’s, during which Alice worked as a buyer for a department store in Syracuse. In 1959, Sol and Alice moved to Margate, after Sol became owner of Bayless Pharmacy, at the corner of Michigan and Atlantic Avenues in Atlantic City (current site of Banana Republic). They became members of Congregation Beth Israel (which had locations in Atlantic City and Margate until relocating to Northfield in 1985). In 1960, Alice gave birth to her only son, Jeffrey, who works for Con Edison, in New York City. In 1969, Alice became a salesperson at C. Herbert Hyman Realty in Northfield, and later opened her own real estate brokerage firm, Alice Realty, in Egg Harbor Township. She specialized in commercial development for the next twenty years, with a brief hiatus in the early 1980’s, during which she was the business manager for the Harbor Medical Center in Egg Harbor Township. In 1995, at age 71, Alice retired from her business and joined the U.S. Peace Corps. She was stationed in Zvolen, Slovakia. During her two-year term, Alice taught business skills at the local university and organized the funding and building of a playground for 5,000 children living in a Soviet-style block. Her proudest achievement was raising funds and helping organize the restoration of a desecrated Jewish cemetery that had been the site of a Holocaust massacre of 129 Jews in June, 1944. Today, this cemetery is the site of a Slovak national monument, which has since been expanded to include the Park of Generous Souls, honoring the 75,000 non-Jewish Slovaks who died defending Jews during the Holocaust. After the Peace Corps, Alice continued to work with the Jewish community in Zvolen. She was instrumental in helping them learn about Judaism, including the celebration of Passover, Chanukkah, and other holidays with the help of various organizations and friends. Alice took great pride in speaking about her own Holocaust experiences at Richard Stockton College and in area schools. In 2010, the country of Slovakia honored Alice for her contributions by awarding her the Milan R. Stefanik Medal of Honor at their embassy in Washington, D.C. Alice was only the fourth person to receive this award and the first one who did not work for either the Slovak or American governments. In 2011, the Slovakian Winter Maccabi Games, a winter Olympics held annually for Jewish people in Slovakia, commemorated a gold medal bearing Alice Gingold’s name for its youth participants. Surviving are: her son, Jeffrey Gingold of New York City; her nieces and nephews, Marsha and Richard Chisholm of San Francisco, Gary Glasgall and Elizabeth Lissmann of Bergen County, and Lynn and Ricardo Eskildsen of Panama City, Panama; her great nieces, Annie Chisholm, Kristi Glasgall and Alexandra Eskildsen; and great nephews, Benjamin Glasgall, Alec Glasgall, William Eskildsen and Ricardo Eskildsen. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, December 30, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. at Adams-Perfect Funeral Home, 1650 New Road, Northfield. The family would appreciate donations in her memory to either the United State Peace Corps (http://www.peacecorps.gov/about/give/) or to the Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Research Center at Richard Stockton College (for information, please email gail.rosenthal@stockton.edu).

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