Obituaries

Edgar Krasa, a Holocaust survivor who sang in the Theresienstadt chorus, dies at 95

Krasa was part of the 1944 performance of Verdi's "Requiem" for a group of high-ranking Nazi officials and representatives of the International Red Cross.

Chaim Ferster, survivor of 8 Nazi concentration camps, dies at 94

"His greatest fear was that people would forget the horrors of the Holocaust," said his son Stuart.

Mayer Abramowitz, rabbi to Miami’s Cuban exiles, dies at 97

“I don’t know who took me to Cuba because I never took a vacation, but it was probably God,” Abramowitz told the Miami Herald when he retired at 90.

Jules Sauer, Brazilian ‘Gemstone Hunter,’ dies at 95

Rabbi Herman Schaalman, the oldest living Reform rabbi, dies at 100

Brunhilde Pomsel, Joseph Goebbels’ former personal secretary, dies at 106

Stephen P. Cohen, Middle East intermediary, dies at 71

Ari Rath, celebrated journalist and former Jerusalem Post editor, dies at 92

Miriam Goldberg, editor and publisher of Intermountain Jewish News since ’72, dies at 100

Ben Cowen, Australian entrepreneur and Jewish community activist, killed in gliding accident

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