Obituaries

Masha Leon, Forward society columnist for 30 years, dies at 86

Leon and her mother were hidden by a Catholic woman in Warsaw during the Holocaust and eventually they were issued transit visas to Japan by Chiune Sugihara.

Ted Cutler, Boston philanthropist, businessman and arts patron, dies

Cutler is being remembered for his passion and devotion to the city where he rose from meager beginnings as the son of Jewish immigrants, to become one of Boston's most beloved and influential philanthropic leaders

Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, whose ‘Babi Yar’ exposed anti-Semitism, dies at 84

Yevtushenko said he wrote the poem after visiting the site of the mass killings near Kiev and not finding anything to memorialize the tragedy that occurred there.

Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport, who earned doctorate 80 years after Nazis’ denial, dies at 104

Historian Elliott Horowitz, expert on Jewish violence, dies at 64

Adam Krief, Jewish father of 3 whose bone marrow search inspired celebrities, dies

David Rubinger, Israeli photographer who took iconic photo of soldiers at Western Wall, dies

Joseph Wapner, retired judge who starred on ‘The People’s Court,’ dies at 97

Physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, ‘Queen of Carbon,’ dies at 86

Leah Adler, mother of Steven Spielberg and popular restaurateur, dies at 97

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