Coronavirus Obituary Europe

Frida Wattenberg speaking with her brother, Charles Smiétanski, at the Memorial for the Shoah in Paris, France on Jan. 29, 2019. (Courtesy of the Memorial for the Shoah)

Frida Wattenberg, 95, smuggled Jewish orphans out of Nazi-occupied France

“She was a courageous woman and an indefatigable fighter,” the Memorial for the Shoah wrote in an obituary.

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 6, 2020 4:28 pm

Immanuel Chanuka, left, and Rabbi Yitzi Loewenthal cooking together at the Chabad House of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2019. (Courtesy of Chaabd Denmark)

Immanuel Chanuka, 84, cared for sick Danish Jews

Chanuka was renowned in Copenhagen for visiting sick Jews in the hospital and bringing them food after they were released.

April 3, 2020 10:52 am

Ronald David Bayfield, his wife, Seila and their great grandchildren in 2017. (Courtesy of the Bayfield family)

Ronald David Bayfield, 95, survived Normandy to die alone in a London hospital

Bayfield dragged himself from a burning tank during the war and carried a wounded comrade to safety, a tenacity that stayed with him even after suffering a stroke eight years ago.

April 2, 2020 1:37 pm

Rabbi Neil Kraft, left, with wrestler Crusher Curtis in London. (Courtesy of Crusher Curtis)

Rabbi Neil Kraft, 69, was beloved by Londoners from all walks of life

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 1, 2020 5:21 pm

Efry Levy Azizoff, 66, didn’t want to worry his friends as he took ill with coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz April 1, 2020 4:42 pm

Yehuda Yaakov Refson, a senior rabbi in England, dies of coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 24, 2020 1:56 pm

Giorgio Sinigaglia, 54, volunteered in Milan’s Jewish community

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 24, 2020 1:46 pm

Giorgio Sinigaglia attending the writing of a Torah scroll in Milan, Italy. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Milan)

Giorgio Sinigaglia, 54, was a father of 4 and volunteer in Milan’s Jewish community

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 24, 2020 1:04 pm

Andre Touboul in 2014. (Courtesy of Beth Hanna)

In Paris, a pillar of Jewish education dies from the coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 23, 2020 5:26 pm

Former leader of Milan Jewish community dies of coronavirus

By Cnaan Liphshiz March 16, 2020 5:58 pm

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