coronavirus obituary

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.

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.

Adam Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ songwriter, dies from coronavirus at 52

He was adapting Sarah Silverman’s memoir and “The Nanny” for Broadway.

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Judith Lowin, 76, was a retired nurse and proud Hadassah member

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

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

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Shoshana Davis, 35, was a wife and mother who loved to travel

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Maurice Berger, 63, was a curator and historian who decried racism

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Ruben Bercovich, 59, sports lover who ran a family business in Argentina

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

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William Helmreich, sociologist of US Jewry and inveterate New Yorker, dies of coronavirus

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