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- New York Times - 7/7/1991
Gisela Warburg Wyzanski, a leader in Zionist women's and youth activities for several decades, died yesterday at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She was 79 years old.
She died of leukemia, her famlly said.
Mrs. Wyzanski was a longtime national board member of Hadassah, the American women's Zionist organization, and worked in Berlin in the Hitler era with Youth Aliah, a group that resettled Jewish children in Palestine and other countries.
She was born in Hamburg and came to the United States as a refugee in 1939. She served for a quarter-century as chairman for the Boston area of the greeting-card fund-raising campaign for Unicef.
Her husband, Charles E. Wyzanski, a former chief judge of Federal District Court in Boston, whom she married in 1943, died in 1986. She is survived by a son, Charles M. Wyzanski, and a daughter, Anita Robboy, both of Cambridge; a sister, Anita Warburg of Manhattan, and four granddaughters.
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