Former Milwaukeean Irma Wolffs died July 16 of cancer in Atlanta. She was 86.
Born in Germany, she and her late husband, Benno Wolffs, immigrated to Palestine on a boat that was blown up in the harbor rather than be diverted to Cyprus. They swam to shore only to be held by the British in a detention camp.
In 1952, they came to Milwaukee from Haifa to reunite with longtime friends and former neighbors in Germany, Harri and Herta Hoffmann.
She worked at the Boston Store and later as a nurse at Mt. Sinai Hospital. The couple was active in the New Home Club and at the old Congregation Anshe Emet, where he was a volunteer chazan.
>They retired to Atlanta and belonged to Congregation B’nai Torah.
In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her son, Michael Wolffs of Atlanta.
Graveside services were held July 18 in Atlanta.
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