A LIFE TOGETHER
| MAX HARRY GASS AND ADELE KORFF GASS:
A LIFE TOGETHER |
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Adele seemed to have had only one regret about her relationship to Max. It pertained to a thoughtless comment to a friend that Max overheard. Adele’s voice was filled with sadness when she described what happened:
“Max and I were married on the 20th of the month. For many years on the 20th of every month Max would write me a poem and give me a little gift. Then one day I said to a friend, Can you imagine a man still writing poetry to his bride after all these years. He never did it again after that.”
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One of Max’s poems for Adele |
Max, however, continued to express his love in writing on her birthday and their anniversary.
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An anniversary letter to Adele |
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Max must have enclosed some money with this greeting card. |
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An unidentified well-wisher prepared this poem in honor of the Gass's 40th wedding anniversary. |
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In honor of Max and Adele’s 50th wedding anniversary, Paul and his wife Judy donated the main floor of the new rehabilitation wing of Jewish Memorial Hospital. Courtesy of the Jewish Reporter, Framingham, MA |
Max and Adele loved to travel, and one of their favorite destinations was Israel.
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(top left) Max and Adele
participating in tree planting, an event sponsored by the Jewish National
Fund. For more than 100 years the Jewish National Fund has been planting
trees in Israel (in 2005 the total number was in excess of 240 million
trees), transforming barren dessert land into lush forests. (top middle) Max removing his shoes outside before entering a Jerusalem mosque (top right) Max and Adele in Jerusalem (bottom left) Max and Adele standing in the ruins of a huge mosque from Turkish times in Ramle, Israel (bottom middle & right) Max at the Wailing Wall |
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Taking the Queen Elizabeth II to Israel, despite
terrorist threats, 1973 |
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Max and Adele dressed for a costume ball aboard a cruise ship. Perhaps these photos were taken on the Queen Elizabeth cruise. |
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Adele returned to Russia for another visit.
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When Adele visited this Moscow synagogue in the 1960s or 1970s she met some congregants from Novograd Volynsk who remember her parents. |
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This photo of Adele was probably taken on her second trip to Russia. |
The Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary Celebration
Max and Adele
were fortunate enough to be able to celebrate fifty years of marriage. Paul and
his then-wife Judy, hosted a large party in their honor at the Royal Sonasta
Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Sunday, January 4, 1987.
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Max and Adele at their 50th wedding anniversary celebration |
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(top) Max and Adele with their son Paul, daughter-in-law Judy, and granddaughters Lisa and Leslie (bottom & right) Food always plays a prominent role at parties hosted by Jewish families. |
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View of Boston's Museum of Science along the Charles River, as seen from the Royal Sonasta Hotel where the anniversary party was held |
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(top left) Family of Adele’s brother of blessed memory, Rabbi Samuel Korff: Front: Harriet, Nesha, Phyliss; back: David and Joe (top middle) Paul giving a speech at his parents’ 50th anniversary celebration (top right) Max’s nieces and nephews: Nancy, Judy, Ida, Mona; back: Lenny, Jeff, Fred, Greg, Mark (bottom left) Max and his brother-in-law Rabbi Baruch Korff, holding a photo take at Max and Adele’s wedding 50 years earlier (bottom middle) Father and son (bottom right) Max and Adele with Paul and Judy and their daughters Leslie and Lisa |
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The whole mishpocha (almost). Front row, sitting, left to right: Lenny and Nancy, Ellen and Jack, Jonathon; 2nd row, standing: Julia, Julie; sitting: Polly, Betty, Leslie, Lisa, Adele, Max, Jordan (kneeling); 3rd row: Baruch, Monica, Max, Molly, Lisa (standing sideways), Ida Gass, Sarah Gass, Nesha Korff, Susie, Mottie, Phyliss; 4th row: William (Sonny), Judy & Paul, Fred (partially obscured), David Korff, Joe, Mike, Harriet, Judy |
