Obituaries

Stanley Tigerman, Chicago architect who designed the Illinois Holocaust Museum, dies

The museum takes visitors on a journey from which there is “no turning back.”

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Nechama Rivlin, wife of Israel’s president, dies at 73

She had a lung transplant three months ago from which she never recovered.

Last living survivor of Nazi death camp Sobibor dies

Semion Rosenfeld, who moved to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990, was one of 47 prisoners to survive the September 1943 Sobibor uprising.

Murray Polner, founding and only editor of Present Tense magazine, dies at 91

Robert Bernstein, Human Rights Watch founder who chided group for anti-Israel bias, dies at 96

Rabbi Lawrence Troster, Jewish environmental activist, dies at 65

Herman Wouk

Herman Wouk, legendary author who brought Judaism into the mainstream, dies at 103

Peggy Lipton

Peggy Lipton, star of TV’s ‘The Mod Squad,’ dies at 72

Nurit Karlin, Israeli-born cartoonist who broke into a men’s club at The New Yorker, dies at 80

Menachem Mendel Taub, Hasidic dynasty head devoted to Holocaust memory, dies at 96

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