After several years in Germany, they received paperwork to come to the United States, ultimately settling in Denver. They took it upon themselves to attempt to rebuild what was taken from them, and to perpetuate the Jewish people. Not long after the end of the war, Bubby married Beryl Miklin, Papa, a fellow survivor, in the Neu Freimann Displaced Persons camp near Munich. While she was robbed of her childhood, she was a quick study of her parent’s values and priorities, and always carried them with her. It is nothing short of a miracle that she and her two sisters, Sima and Hanka, survived the Holocaust. Somehow, some way, she endured all of this with a will to live and a desire for renewal. She endured years of slave labor, starvation, disease, torture, abuse, and countless selections. Over the next few years, she became an orphan, losing her parents Shiya and Rivka she also lost her younger brothers Yechiel and Meir, her living grandparents, uncles, aunts, and many cousins, hashem yikom damam. She had a beautiful childhood with many fond memories, which ended abruptly at the tender age of 14, when the Nazis invaded her shtetl. She recalled other moments from her childhood, like playing records with her friends, and watching her uncles play tennis in all white uniforms. Bubby regularly recounted how her mother would cook elaborate Shabbos meals, but she would not partake because she would lose her appetite from watching lice crawl on the clothing of their indigent Shabbos table guests. They were exceptionally charitable, and were models of hachnasat orchim, opening their doors to the needy. They were ardent Zionists and supporters of Zev Jabotinsky’s betar movement, while also supporting and revering a nearby Chassidic master, the Ostrovietzer rebbe. Bubby’s parents were community stalwarts, founding and sustaining local shuls, a homeless shelter for poor Jews, and establishing formal Jewish education for their daughters, and the girls of their community, in the form of bais Yaakov. She was the daughter of loving parents Shiya and Rivka Kestenberg, and the sister of Hanka, Sima, Yechiel and Meir. In July of 1925 Mirka Kestenberg, who we all know as Bubby, was born in Slupia Nowa, Poland. She dedicated her life to giving her children and grandchildren opportunities that she never had, and fostering the family life of which she was robbed. Marian Miklin Marian Miklin lived 96 incredibly difficult but gratifying years.
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