Farewell Marika
Marika Pogany, one of the 15 victims of last week’s Bondi Beach massacre, has been laid to rest.
Premier Chris Minns joined the mourners at the Hunters Hill funeral service.
In 2019, JCA presented Marika with its Mensch Award as a well-deserved recognition of her long-standing delivery of meals-on-wheels for the Centre of Activity in Bondi Junction, known as COA. Marika is believed to have hand delivered 15, 000 meals to needy residents.
JCA CEO Alain Hasson hands the award to Marika in 2019
Her family described the bridge-loving Marika as being “Vibrant and full of life, she brought joy and energy into every room and found her greatest happiness surrounded by her adoring family.”
Michele Goldman, CEO of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies, and Robbie Clifford, the COA General Manager, attended the service.
A Holocaust survivor, Marika Pogany was born in 1943 in Czechoslavakia. She went with three friends to Bondi Beach to celebrate Chanukah.
