RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, The members of the Chicago City Council are pleased to honor Hanna Bratman of Chicago for the many years of dedicated service she has given to her community, to senior citizens, to the blind; and has been a remarkable, humorous, spirited leader; truly an inspiration for women and men alike, not only with her sense of survival and resilience, but need to adapt to the times and ever-changing technology; and
WHEREAS, Hanna Bratman was born in Germany in 1920 and, at 19 years old, escaped Germany prior to World War II. In 1942 she married Eugene Bratman; mother of Rudy Lubov (nee Bratman) and Stanley Bratman. A proud grandmother and great-grandmother; and
WHEREAS, Hanna Bratman has dedicated much of her life to unselfishly serving others, always willing to listen, evaluate problems and assist in finding solutions and resolution. Her career began at Social Research, Inc., where she grew with the rapidly expanding company, becoming a supervisor early on, at a time when most women were not active in the work-force. After a successful career in market research, she joined her husband as a partner in his import decor business. At this time she became a resident of Lakeview, where she would remain for more than forty years; and
WHEREAS, She was a leader in forming an exercise group, which quickly became a community of accomplished and diverse individuals, celebrating each other and their ideas, their achievements and milestones; and
WHEREAS, Upon retirement, nearly fifty years after moving to America, she began taking classes at her local community college, and was encouraged to write essays about her life as a Jewish girl in Germany with World War II rapidly approaching, which would eventually become her memoirs; and
WHEREAS, At age 72, she was diagnosed with macular degeneration, becoming blind virtually overnight. Instead of allowing this to become a hindrance, she utilized services provided by the Lighthouse for the Blind in Chicago; there she le...
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