David Arwed Lewinski

David Arwed Lewinski died May 10, 2015 at Jersey Shore Medical Center. Dave was an energetic and devoted husband and father to children and grandchildren, a family he created after losing most of his birth family through the Holocaust. Dave was born in Berlin in 1929 to a Jewish mother and a Christian/Jewish father. Although baptized a Christian, he was subject to Hitler's race laws. His parents arranged for him to leave Germany in June 1939 as one of 10,000 children sent to England in the Kindertransport. During World War II, he lived in and outside London during the Blitz while his sponsor, Monica Storrs, fought for a Canadian visa for him to live at her mission in Fort St. John, BC. He arrived in October 1940. For six years, he lived like a pioneer and rode a horse to school. He had no communication with his family until 1945, when he learned that his mother had died in Auschwitz. His father managed to survive until the Allies arrived. Ms. Storrs arranged for Dave to attend college at the University of Manitoba, where he received a Master's degree in mathematics in 1956. He married Nora Sarson, a nurse, from near Winnipeg in 1950. They settled in Montreal, where Dave began his career in the Bell system. In 1955, he joined Bell Labs in New Jersey, where he worked for 42 years in Murray Hill, then Holmdel. He was a founding member of the Holmdel First Aid Squad and its long-time treasurer. He loved to sing and act, and was a member of the Chatham Players in Morris County, and later, the Monmouth Civic Chorus and the Rutgers University Chorus. He is survived by Nora, his wife of 65 years, daughter Kathy of Neptune, son John and his wife, Dale, of Salem, MA; daughter Dorothy Jayne and her husband, William Schartel, of Cross Junction, VA; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. A Memorial Gathering will be held Wednesday, May 13, 2015 from 6 to 8 PM at the Ocean Grove Memorial Home, 118 Main Ave., Ocean Grove, with a service at the Ocean Grove Memorial Home Thursday, May 14 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, please donate in Dave's memory to your favorite charity'