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Baruj Plavnick, 69, rabbi whose Buenos Aires synagogue was used as a vaccination center

Plavnick was one of the five rabbis who were the first to serve as chaplains in the Argentine military.

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Miguel Lifschitz, 65, socialist Argentine politician who declined early COVID vaccine

Lifschitz likely could have gotten a coronavirus vaccine months ago, but he declined to jump the line. He died of COVID-19 on May 9.

Bella Granek, 89, Holocaust survivor who was great with kids

The joy she brought to children contrasted with the trauma she experienced as child growing up under Nazi rule in Germany.

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Mauro Viale, 73, popular Argentine television host

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Milton Steinberg, 96, lover of cantorial music

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Alberto Sonsol, 63, legendary Uruguayan sportscaster who once said ‘baruch Hashem’ on the air

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Marianne Steiner, 101, stylish Holocaust survivor who supported research on German Jewry

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Ernesto Teicher, 76, real estate developer and Jewish community builder

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Andres Abt, 47, first Jewish mayor of a district in Uruguay’s capital Montevideo

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Leo Rechter, 93, fought for destitute Holocaust survivors

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