Obituaries

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

"His greatest fear was that people would forget the horrors of the Holocaust," said his son Stuart.

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

“I don’t know who took me to Cuba because I never took a vacation, but it was probably God,” Abramowitz told the Miami Herald when he retired at 90.

Jules Sauer, Brazilian ‘Gemstone Hunter,’ dies at 95

A Frenchman who fled the Nazis in 1939, Sauer would establish a high-end jewelry chain and become a leading world authority in his field.

Rabbi Herman Schaalman, the oldest living Reform rabbi, dies at 100

Brunhilde Pomsel, Joseph Goebbels’ former personal secretary, dies at 106

Stephen P. Cohen, Middle East intermediary, dies at 71

Ari Rath, celebrated journalist and former Jerusalem Post editor, dies at 92

Miriam Goldberg, editor and publisher of Intermountain Jewish News since ’72, dies at 100

Ben Cowen, Australian entrepreneur and Jewish community activist, killed in gliding accident

Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-Jewish sociologist and philosopher, dies at 91

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