Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY – An elderly 79-year-old woman trapped under the giant tire of the 16-ton B6 City Bus screamed in pain in Brooklyn yesterday Shabbos morning as onlookers and emergency workers urged her to hold on.
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But the woman who was dragged several feet before she was pinned, was later pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital.
“This is unbelievable,” said her son, “She’s a Holocaust survivor. It’s so surreal that my mother had to leave the Earth this way.” Her parents and all but one of her eight siblings died in concentration camps.
She was on her way to the Arch Diner when she was struck at the corner of Glenwood Road and Ralph Ave. in East Flatbush about 8:10 a.m. The grandmother of four met her friends for breakfast at the diner every Saturday.
No summonses were issued in the accident and none of the 13 passengers aboard were hurt.
Her son Leon Dymburt said that his mother had grown up in a farming town near Warsaw in a family of nine children. One day, German soldiers came and took the family away, except for his mother and her younger sister, Cechia, Mr. Dymburt said.
A Catholic family that lived nearby allowed the two little girls to live with them for about a month until German authorities announced that anyone caught harboring Jews would be killed.
The sisters eventually found their way to Warsaw, taking a few silver wine goblets, the only mementos of home. In the Warsaw Ghetto, the girls found a relative to stay with.
“Not many survived the Warsaw Ghetto, but she survived,” Mr. Dymburt said
But Anna Dymburt, 79, who was dragged several feet before she was pinned, was later pronounced dead at Brookdale University Hospital.
The beloved woman walked with a cane, but was still active
The retired seamstress and grandmother of four met her friends for breakfast at the diner every Saturday. She and some of the same friends also made fruit baskets every couple of weeks for residents of a nursing home