coronavirus obituary

Avraham MacConnell, 72, Philadelphia police officer who went undercover to stop child abuse

“He loved talking to people, and he loved hearing their stories,” his son said.

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Gennady Kernes, in a wheelchair, attends the funeral of his associate and close friend, businessman Yuri Diment, at the Jewish cemetery of Kharkiv, Ukraine on Feb. 26, 2016. (Konstantin Cherginsky/TASS via Getty Images)

Popular Ukrainian mayor Gennady Kernes survived a sniper attack but succumbed to COVID

A fitness freak whose political career soared against all odds, he became a wheelchair user a gunshot wound that nearly killed him in 2014.

Theodore Mann, 92, former chairman of Presidents Conference and early critic of Israeli occupation

Mann is remembered as representing “the voice of moral principle, a fierce commitment to pluralism, and dedication to human rights.”

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Hryhoriy Arshynov, restorer of Jewish cemeteries across Ukraine

Abraham Grossman, center. (Courtesy of his family)

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Abraham Grossman, 95, fled Germany as a boy but returned as a soldier bearing Jewish insignia

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Florence Barat, 90, was preparing for her second adult bat mitzvah

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Bradley Fields, 68, renowned magician who studied Talmud and taught math to kids

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Rabbi Ezekiel Nissim Musleah, 92, captivating reader of Torah

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David Galante, 94, Auschwitz survivor who taught about the Holocaust after a 50-year silence

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Bertram Korn, 64, former editor of Philadelphia Jewish Exponent

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