Obituary: Mimi Reinhard
Forced labour camp typist who expanded Schindler’s List and helped save some 1,200 Jewish lives
Obituary: Kay Mellor
From Coronation Street to Fat Friends and The Syndicate: the scriptwriter who preferred Leeds to LA
Obituary: comedian and actor Gilbert Gottfried
American comedy star whose exaggerated style and bad-taste jokes delighted audiences
Obituary: Michael Mather, academic and football hero
Michael was awarded the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Care Work and a London Football Association Award for services to refereeing
A.B. Yehoshua, renowned Israeli writer and peace activist, dies age 85
President Isaac Herzog described him as 'one of Israel’s greatest authors in all generations, who gifted us his unforgettable works, which will continue to accompany us for generations'
Obituary: Jack Aizenberg - a Holocaust survivor, a family man, a 'real-life superhero'
Jack said: 'God was good to me. I have no argument with God. I’m not asking him why was I in the camps. He made it up to me, he did, I can tell you.'
Obituary: leading commentator, thinker and writer Midge Decter
Decter was a controversial and confrontational polemicist who published notorious rants against feminism and homosexuality
Obituary: Dr Michael Cohen
A man of wide intellectual and liturgical interests
Obituary: Thelma Cowan
Stalwart of Bournemouth Synagogue’s Ladies’ chevra kadisha who was also deeply committed to raising funds for charities
Obituary: Madeleine Albright
Diminutive presence who despite her small physical stature rose to become the first-ever female US Secretary of State
Obituary: Ivan Solomons
“Lucky” D-Day veteran – a “shoe-in“ for highest French military accolade
Obituary: Dan Graham
Prodigious man of the arts whose work in performance, video, sculpture, music and puppetry defied genres
Obituary: Hyam Corney
A former JC Assistant Foreign Editor reflects on the life of a popular colleague and good friend
Freddie Knoller: tireless campaigner for Shoah survivors who had helped the French Resistance blow up a Nazi train before he was arrested and sent to Auschwitz
Like many who survived, Knoller was insistent that the Holocaust should not be forgotten and addressed schools on his experiences
Obituary: Michel Jules Strauss
Refugee from occupied France who headed the Impressionism and modern Art department at Sotheby's
Obituary: Ladislaus Löb
Professor of German literature who owed his survival to Kasztner-Eichmann Holocaust deal
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