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In memory of my Mom Anneliese (Becker) Reins. She lived with Parkinson's for the last 18 years.
She was born on Memel now called Klaipeda Lithuania, on March 8, 1924 to Lotte (Eisensteadt) and Leopold Becker. She had a younger sister Ursel and a baby brother Dieter. Although Germany lost her hometown during World War I, she considered herself to be German. Her father was Jewish and a decorated officer of the German military during World War I. During World War II she served as a nurse. She was a holocaust survivor the only member of her family to survive. She married Morduch Polonski in 1946 in a refugee camp in Italy. They immigrated to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and had 2 children: Lilian and Leonardo. In Brazil she worked in a German and then a British hospital as a nurse.

In 1967 after divorcing her husband, she immigrated to the United States to take care of Ernst Halperin. He was like another son to her. She spent the first year in Coral Gables Florida and in 1968 moved to Reading, Massachusetts. Upon arrival in Reading, she went back to nursing school and received an LPN degree from Malden Nursing School.
She remarried in November 1973 to Dale Reins. Upon their retirement in 1980 they moved to Cleburne, Texas. They were divorced in 1997 and she moved back to Reading, MA. She worked at Wal-Mart in North Reading until the age of 82. She started having effects from Parkinson's, first a slight tremor. Her main interest in life was medicine and clinical research. She participated in the Adult Brain Aging and Blood Flow Research study at Massachusetts General Hospital and her greatest legacy is donating her brain to research.
She passed away on March 15, 2018 at age 94. Anneliese is survived by her children Lilian (Polonski) Carter and her husband Robert Carter and Leonardo Polonski and his wife Lynn. She also leaves four grandchildren Nathan Polonski, Ryan Polonski, Denise Landry and Laurie Lewis and seven great grandchildren: Cameron, Katelyn, Madison, Abigail, Noah, Anneliese and Alexander.