The Champlain Towers South building collapse killed 3 generations of a Puerto Rican Jewish family. Those who remember them want 'to honor the memory and the legacy of the people we lost.'
Some of Richard Kleiman’s fondest memories growing up in Puerto Rico are of Highland Gardens, the neighborhood where his good friend Jay Kleiman lived.
“We would get there, and they would say, ‘Oh, the Puerto Ricans are here!’ We were the life of the party,” Kleiman said, remembering how they would speak in Spanish so the girls they liked wouldn't know they were talking about them. On June 22, Richard, who had recently moved to Miami, called Jay from his son’s bar mitzvah in the Bahamas to touch base, never imagining that would be his last conversation with him. Jay had just flown to Surfside, Florida, from Puerto Rico to attend a funeral service and was staying at theJay, 52, held up his “cool dad” reputation when he answered Richard’s call with a funny, “Whazz up!” Richard recalled, adding Jay always had a smile on his face.
Top row, from left: Frank Kleiman, Nancy Kress Levin, Jay Kleiman. Second row, from left: Deborah Berezdivin, Anna Ortiz with Luis Bermudez.The body of Frank Kleiman, 55, Jay’s older brother, was found in the rubble a few days later alongside the remains of Frank's newlywed, 26; both were not Jewish. The following week, authorities recovered Jay’s body, as well as the remains of his mother, Nancy Kress Levin, 76, and his younger cousin, Deborah Berezdivin, 21.
Some of the children, like Jay, then raised their own families in Puerto Rico. In Jay's case, he had returned to the island though he had moved to Miami in his teens.
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