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| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born | Hela Yungst Hillside, New Jersey. U.S. |
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| Title(s) | Miss New Jersey 1970 |
| Major competition(s) |
Miss America 1971 |
Hela Yungst (c. 1952 in Israel – February 24, 2002 in Livingston, New Jersey[1][2]), also known as Hela Young, was an American television entertainer and beauty pageant winner. She was a promoter of Holocaust awareness and a former president of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education.
Yungst was born in Israel to parents who were survivors of The Holocaust. The family moved to the United States in 1956.[3] She was raised in Hillside, New Jersey and graduated from Hillside High School in 1967. She was a member of the National Honor Society and was awarded the title of Miss New Jersey, representing the state in the Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City in 1971. Around the same time she graduated Newark State College (now Kean University) with a B.A. in music education and theatre.
Yungst was a performer on stage and in films, television commercials and soap operas, appearing in Guiding Light and All My Children.[4] She changed her name to Hela Young and became the New Jersey Lottery hostess on television, picking the nightly winning numbers for some 24 years. She left television in November 2001 due to illness.
She resided with her husband and daughter in Mountainside, New Jersey and died in 2002 due to cancer.[5]
The New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education presents "The Hela Young Award" each year "to honor a person in recognition of outstanding work in the community for the improvement of human relations among diverse peoples and for the improvement of the human condition."[6]
[edit] References
- ^ Archived Lottery News for February, 2002, www.usamega.com
- ^ Obituary, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 25, 2002.
- ^ "Ceremony celebrates those who fought back", New Jersey Jewish News, April 30, 2009.
- ^ Obituary, Newsday, February 27, 2002.
- ^ "Event to honor memory of two who battled hate", The New Jersey Jewish News, accessed September 18, 2009.
- ^ "Hela Young Award", New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education website, accessed September 18, 2009.
[edit] External links
- A Tribute to Hela Young - NJN Behind the Scenes, March, 2002
- Archived copy of obituary, Newsday, dated February 27, 2002
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