We are so sorry for your loss, Stephen — you and your family are in our thoughts. Sandy & Michael Russell
My dearest Mother and best friend on this earth, the great debt I owe you cannot adequately be expressed. What an amazing life you have lived. Your life-changing, world-changing work has been so unique and precious. It is going to continue. The rivers of life will continue to flow out into this needy world. Meanwhile,[…]
It is with great sadness that I read the email yesterday informing me that dear Marina had passed away. Marina was a very special person, with a very special soul. From the first moment when she hugged me over 20 years ago coming off the coach, when I first visited the Holocaust Centre, I knew[…]
‘Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of His saints’ [Ps. 116:15]. ‘To live is Christ, and to die is gain’ [Phil. 1:21]. I am grateful to God for the work, witness, and memory of Marina Smith. Above all else, she loved Jesus. May she rest in peace, and may she rise[…]
It was a deep sense of sadness that my wife and I learnt from an article in the Jewish Chronicle that your mother Marina had died and I wanted to send you our condolences and to wish you and your family ‘Long Life’ We first met your Marina about 30 years ago when we made our[…]
Dear Smith Family, I am so sorry for your loss. Although I only met Mrs. Smith once, my late husband, Henry Ross, knew her well & had tremendous admiration for her & for all of you. Before he became ill, he really used to look forward to his visits from Newcastle on Tyne to Beth Shalom[…]
I’ve heard it is hard work being a mother and that even just one or two children are a handful. So how do you be a mother to thousands – but you just were – you were to me and I saw you doing it first hand with a mother’s love, care and intuition for[…]
I was so sad to hear the news of Marina’s passing . She was a wonderful person and indeed the whole family are an extraordinary example of the very best of humanity. I never lose sight of the irony that such wonderful people have dedicated so much of their lives to educating people so as to[…]
Dear Stephen, James and Eddie, I’m so sorry to hear that Mrs Smith has passed away. Whilst I was only at the Holocaust Centre for a few short years, it was such an honour to meet and spend time with Mrs Smith. I will always remember her warmth and kindness, particularly on my last day at the[…]
I was lucky enough to know Marina for many years, first as a visitor to Beth Shalom, then as a Trustee of the Centre and finally as its Chair. What a truly remarkable woman – short in stature but a giant in the way that she lived her life! Loved by all, not just by[…]
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To Dearest Mother, I lost my teddy bear at the supermarket – I must have been 2 or 3 – a honey coloured teddy with a blue dress and a bow. I was so sad. Somehow you found out and for my birthday, a new beautiful beige teddy bear, identical but with a brown dress[…]
Very sad news and loss for Marina’s family and friends. We will all honour her memory in remembering her life as an example of great values and action. We should like to send our sincerest condolence to her wonderful family. Ruth and Miriam Shire (Birmingham)
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Dearest Mother Along with countless others, I have known and received your care and love my whole life- nearly 40 years! I consider it the most immense privilege to have known and received your wisdom, guidance and encouragement throughout my life in so many ways and I wouldn’t be the person I am today without[…]
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Dearest Smith Family, Sending you my love as you go through this time of grief. As I write this I’m finding it hard to take in and digest that Mrs Smith has passed away. She has been a constant throughout my life and although not possible it somehow felt that she would be here forever.[…]
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Dearest MMarina, It is an honour and blessing to know you and your family through my life in Pontefract and Grimsby and Brunei. You are a True Ambassador of Love and Peace as what I had written my email to you few days before you are with Our Father in heaven. I will try not[…]
The news of Mrs Smith’s passing filled me with great sadness. Memories of her came flooding back, like it was yesterday that I sat at Bethany and the quiet places of the Holocaust Centre, watching the many milestones of the vision of Tikkum Olam unfolding. I remember all the hand-written notes and letters she wrote. It[…]
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Dearest Family Smith, it is with great sadness that I send my love and condolences to you at this time of loss. Thank you for sharing this very special lady with so many of us – it has been the greatest honour to call her my friend and to experience her mother love. – –[…]
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The most extraordinary, wondrous, loving Mother figure who has ever been. This says it all, but to relate it to myself personally, as many can, I have experienced these facets over and over again for nearly 42 years. Whatever was good, right, generous and wise, was shown and imparted to me and my family on[…]
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Dearest Smith Family My heart is truly saddened to be writing this to you, here is my tribute to our dearly loved Mrs Smith: My sister and I lost our father at a very young age and so life began with a feeling of something missing. Soon afterwards the Smith family came into our lives[…]
I am so sad to hear that the world has lost this gentle, determined and beautiful woman, Marina Smith. Doing some work with the wonderful Aegis I arrived with my daughter Niña at her home to be greeted like a family member. There was a magnificent afternoon tea, a tour of the delightful English garden[…]
I`m just speechless and at a loss for words, Marina is and will always be an angle among us that cared for us all, guided us and you can always feel her Love and gentleness as she walked through life beside us. Having had the pleasure to meet Mrs. Smith it was an honor and beginning[…]
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Dearest Mother, I first remember coming to see you when I was 7 years old. I felt completely enveloped in love. You were the first person to understand me and you knew instinctively what was wrong even though I found it difficult to explain. And your warm hugs were like being nestled under a mother hen’s[…]
I am crying. I mourn a loved one – Receive my condolences James and Stephen, Eduard Smith. I have rarely read such a painful message. I had found in your mother, James and Stephen, a Mum I lost at a young age….. Just two months ago I was in the UK. I contacted James to[…]
Dearest Stephen and James I am deeply, deeply saddened. Marina was an angel. How blessed I feel for having known her. I cannot begin to imagine your feeling of loss. She was an Eshet Chael – a woman of worth and i loved her. I wish you both and Eddie Long Life. Ruth-Anne
I cannot find words to describe the sadness of losing another Mother!! She has known me longer than my own mother after meeting me at age of 22 !! Nottingham will never be the-same without her! Where ever I went in the world always knew I had a home to come back to!! Her words[…]
Dearest Mother, How can I put in words what you mean to me and how much you will be missed. You are loved to Heaven and back. You have been a constant throughout my whole life. You have always been there. Life will never be the same now you have gone. Thank you for all[…]