A Levaya was held Monday for Al Kirsch, a founder of the Holocaust Museum in Spring Valley, who died Sunday in Rye.
The New City resident had Alzheimer’s disease and lived for the past year and a half at The Osborn, an assisted-living facility.
His last years, though, were hardly a reflection of a life that began in Manhattan on Aug. 3, 1915.
Kirsch was one of 18 people honored by the Holocaust Museum and Study Center in September as “guardians of the museum.”
“It is their vision that made it possible for the museum to open in May 1988,” the program stated, “and undertook its mission in commemorating those who perished during the Holocaust as well as teaching the lessons of the Holocaust to the Lower Hudson Valley.”
On average, about 10,000 people visit the museum each year.
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