Death of a matriarch means there may be as few as 5 Jews left in Cairo Marcelle Haroun was the mother of the current president of Cairo’s Jewish community. By Marcy Oster July 8, 2019 1:33 pm
Eva Mozes Kor, survivor of Mengele twin experiments who preached forgiveness, dies at 85 Kor founded the CANDLES (Children of Auschwitz Nazi Deadly Lab Experiments Survivors) Holocaust Museum and Education Center, and died while on a visit to Poland with a group from the museum. July 4, 2019 3:10 pm
George Rosenkranz, an inventor of the birth control pill, dies at 102 The Hungary native had immigrated to Cuba in 1940 to escape the Nazis. June 24, 2019 2:31 pm
Velvel Pasternak, who worked to preserve Jewish musical heritage, dies at 86 By Marcy Oster June 12, 2019 7:13 am
Stanley Tigerman, Chicago architect who designed the Illinois Holocaust Museum, dies By Yvette Alt Miller June 5, 2019 12:34 pm
Murray Polner, founding and only editor of Present Tense magazine, dies at 91 By Marcy Oster June 2, 2019 4:10 pm
Robert Bernstein, Human Rights Watch founder who chided group for anti-Israel bias, dies at 96 By Marcy Oster May 29, 2019 4:29 pm