Obituaries

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.

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.

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.

Best-selling novelist Judith Krantz dies at 91

Velvel Pasternak, who worked to preserve Jewish musical heritage, dies at 86

Stanley Tigerman, Chicago architect who designed the Illinois Holocaust Museum, dies

Nechama Rivlin, wife of Israel’s president, dies at 73

Last living survivor of Nazi death camp Sobibor dies

Murray Polner, founding and only editor of Present Tense magazine, dies at 91

Robert Bernstein, Human Rights Watch founder who chided group for anti-Israel bias, dies at 96

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