The editor of the Yiddish Forward newspaper died at the age of 76. Mordechai Strigler, who was born in Poland, studied as a child at one of Poland’s most distinguished yeshivas. During World War II, when he was sent to Majdanek and Buchenwald, he was a member of the Resistance.
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