Posted on 04/25/2025 12:30:15 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Taibel Brod, 99, a Hasidic Jewish woman who fled Russia after World War II, died after she struck by an SUV
A 99-year-old woman died nearly two weeks after she was struck by an unlicensed driver in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Taibel Brod, 99, a Hasidic Jewish woman who fled Russia after World War II, was struck while crossing Montgomery St. in Crown Heights on Tuesday, April 8, around 8:30 p.m., a New York Police Department spokesman said.
She was transported to Maimonides Medical Center, where she was initially listed in stable condition. But she succumbed to her injuries 12 days later and died on Sunday, April 20.
The matriarch was allegedly hit by Menachem Shagalow, a 65-year-old man who was driving a 2023 GMC Yukon SUV traveling south on Brooklyn Ave. That same day, he was charged with aggravated unlicensed operator, failure to exercise due care and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a NYPD spokesman said.
Taibel, a longtime resident of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was survived by her large Chabad family, including her five children and several grandchildren, according to her obituary.
Taibel was born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine. She came to the U.S. after World War II, when she fled Russia on an escape train to Poland, her family said, per the New York Daily News.
In 1946, she ended up in the displaced persons camp of Pocking, in Germany. There, she married her husband, Chatzkel Brod, and gave birth to her two older daughters, her son Yisroel Brod said, per the Daily News. She moved to New York in 1951.
The NYPD lists her age as 101 at the time of her death. Her children believe she was 99 because when she escaped Russia, she used another person’s passport. Her actual age is unclear.
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Anytime is the right time to flee Russia, in mine opinion.
Be interesting to see if she had any Muslim Dr,s.
So sad
Not a word about what has happened to the unlicensed driver?
“Anytime is the right time to flee Russia, in mine opinion.”
New York moreso.
My Russian grandma born in Ukraine also left Russia after some foreign soldier hit her after the Communists took over. She, her sister, my great aunt and her mother, my great grandmother left for China.
The article is short on details about the driver.
“Anytime is the right time to flee Russia, in mine opinion.”
Actually, she fled Ukraine, which makes sense considering how infested the country was and still is with Nazis.
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