Rabbi Zwi Azaria-Helfgott, one of the spiritual leaders of Jews in displaced persons camps after World War II, died at 88. Helfgott, who died May 22, served in the Yugoslav Army during World War II. After the war he headed the rabbinate in the British zone of Germany and at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.
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