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(JTA) — Jacob Birnbaum, who helped launch the movement to free Soviet Jews, has died. Birnbaum, the founder of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, died Wednesday at the age of 87.
A native of Germany, Birnbaum escaped with his...
Nettie ‘Nat’ Regenbogen Forman, a housewife, mother and New Orleans native, died Saturday, March 29 at the Westchester Gardens Rehabilitation and Care Center in Clearwater, FL. She was 87.
Married to the late Benjamin Forman, she is survived by her...
Kurt David Steiner, who fled Nazi Germany at the age of 10 and served as the chief financial officer of the City of New Orleans during the Sidney Barthelemy administration, died on March 25. He was 82.
A certified public...
BENNIE KORETZKY, a native New Orleanian who was both a hardware merchant and a retailer specializing in ceramics, died Wednesday, March 26, at East Jefferson General Hospital. He was 96.
For many years, Koretzky and his wife Ninnette (née Deiches)...
By JULIE WIENER
NEW YORK (JTA) — Gisela Kohn Dollinger tricked death twice.
Soon after Kristallnacht, when she was 36, Dollinger persuaded the Gestapo to release her husband, rather than send him to a concentration camp, and the two of...
(JTA) — Harold Ramis, an actor, writer and director who had a hand in such iconic comedies as “Groundhog Day,” “Ghostbusters” and “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” has died.
Ramis died early Monday morning in Chicago from complications of autoimmune inflammatory...
TESS LEVY SCHORNSTEIN, a former social worker, who spent much of her professional life working at Charity Hospital, died on Sunday, February 23 at the St. James Place retirement community in Baton Rouge. Schornstein, anative New Orleanian and long time...
HARRY A. FREIBERG, an investor and financial planner, passed away peacefully at his home on Fri., February 21. He was 97 years old.
Although he was a long time resident of the city, Freiberg was born in Cincinnati. As a...
(JTA) — Alice Herz-Sommer, the 110-year-old Holocaust survivor and concert pianist whose life was the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, has died.
Herz-Sommer, who was believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor and was still playing the piano, died Sunday...
KENNETH H. CHESKIN, a former engineer for the Boeing Company and Erichson Company, Inc., died on Saturday, February 15 in Metairie. He was 78.
A native of Newark, NJ, Cheskin was a graduate of Seton Hall University and served in...
