Obituaries

Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, who earned doctorate 80 years after Nazis’ denial, dies at 104

She completed her thesis on diphtheria in 1938, but was refused entrance to the oral exam because her mother was Jewish; she passed two years ago at 102.

Historian Elliott Horowitz, expert on Jewish violence, dies at 64

Horowitz served as co-editor of the Jewish Quarterly Review, a journal at the University of Pennsylvania, and taught at two Israeli universities.

Adam Krief, Jewish father of 3 whose bone marrow search inspired celebrities, dies

A bone-marrow donor was found last December, but Krief suffered complications following a transplant.

David Rubinger, Israeli photographer who took iconic photo of soldiers at Western Wall, dies

Joseph Wapner, retired judge who starred on ‘The People’s Court,’ dies at 97

Physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, ‘Queen of Carbon,’ dies at 86

Leah Adler, mother of Steven Spielberg and popular restaurateur, dies at 97

Edgar Krasa, a Holocaust survivor who sang in the Theresienstadt chorus, dies at 95

Chaim Ferster, survivor of 8 Nazi concentration camps, dies at 94

Mayer Abramowitz, rabbi to Miami’s Cuban exiles, dies at 97

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