Malvina Burstein Dies

Malvina Burstein, 97, who helped obtain identification papers that she hoped would save 1,500 fellow Jews in Budapest during World War II, died Oct. 18 at the Ring House retirement community in Rockville. She had dysphagia, a swallowing disorder.

Mrs. Burstein's home town of Trebisov, Czechoslovakia, fell under Nazi occupation early in the war. After closing her millinery shop and hiding for a year in a basement, Malvin Grunfeld, as she was then known, fled to Budapest in 1942 and hid under a false identity.

Rest In Peace, Malvina.