Obituaries

Holocaust expert Elisabeth Maxwell dies at 92

Elisabeth Maxwell, an expert on the Holocaust and widow of the media tycoon Robert Maxwell, has died.

August 9, 2013 7:25 am

Journalist Yehuda Lev, who smuggled Holocaust survivors to Palestine, dies

Yehuda Lev, an iconoclastic journalist and veteran of World War II and Israel’s War of Independence who established a European underground route to smuggle Holocaust survivors to Palestine, has died.

August 6, 2013 7:39 am

Yitzhak Berman, catalyst for Sabra and Shatila massacre inquiry, dies at 100

Yitzhak Berman, who quit Menachem Begin’s government to protest its resistance to investigating the causes of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, has died.

August 4, 2013 10:52 am