Lisa Kamilla Saretzky, 90, died on Oct. 14. She was a native of Vienna, Austria, who was sent to England with thousands of other Jewish children to escape the Nazis.
Saretzky was 14 when she traveled to England on the Kindertransport train in 1939. She was later reunited with her family in the U.S. Throughout her life, she told her story at schools, churches, synagogues and business offices.
She earned a nutrition degree from Simmons College in Boston and worked as a dietitian at Brooklyn Jewish Hospital in New York. She married Dr. Bernard Cappe, with whom she had three children. She lived in Flower Hill. After his death in 1969, she became reacquainted with a friend from Boston, Simon Saretzky, and they were married and lived together in Sands Point and Florida until his death in 2008. They were married 37 years.
Saretzky lived in Florida until a year and a half ago, when she moved to Tracy, CA, to live with her daughter because of declining health. She participated in activities at Lolly Hansen Senior Center and the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts and enjoyed visiting the farmers market and concerts in the park.
She is survived by two daughters, Susan Richardson and her husband, Steve, of Tracy, CA, and Pamela Silverstein and her husband, Jeff, of New York City; a son, Leonard Cappe, and his wife Lisa, of Maui; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
A funeral was held at Temple Israel in Stockton followed by burial in the Temple Israel Cemetery.
