Obituaries

Remembering Susanna Gross, journalist and friend

A wise and witty literary editor who was a superb bridge player and a widely respected and popular columnist

Vera Schaufeld, survivor and educator dies at 95

“I remember sitting on Liverpool Street station in London, hearing announcements in a strange language seeing children all round me being collected and fearing that I would be left there alone.”

Tchéky Karyo, French actor dies at 72

The French Jewish actor known for playing “baddies” and being a heartthrob to middle-aged women died of cancer at 72

Felix D. Posen

Educational pioneer who promoted the concept of pluralistic Jewish cultural education

Obituary: David Shalit

City banker, fencing star and philanthropist who oversaw the completion of the Barbican arts centre

Smoked fish savant Saul Zabar of Zabar’s deli dies at 97

The so-called ‘lox smith’ of New York City helped turn his parent’s smoked fish store into an iconic and globally-renowned food enterprise

Actress and Holocaust survivor Ruth Posner dies at 96

Polish actress and Holocaust survivor, whose most authentic role as a Catholic girl saved her life

Aron Bell, the last surviving member of the Bielski brothers, dies aged 98

Their story was turned into the Hollywood film, Defiance

Actor and Shoah survivor Ruth Posner dies with husband at Swiss suicide clinic

A friend of the couple said they ‘wanted to die together’ despite not being terminally ill

Argentinian campaigner who led the families of the missing, dies aged 106

Campaigner who gave voice to the grandmothers of Argentine’s ”disappeared”

Ronnie Appleton KC dies at 97

Northern Ireland’s Senior Crown Prosecutor during The Troubles

David Schaecter, president of Holocaust survivors foundation, dies at 96

Irene Brauner Holocaust survivor dies aged 87

A Polish Holocaust survivor who escaped the Krakow ghetto by assuming a fake identity as a child

Barbara Barnett

Socia l historian who recorded Holocaust child survivors’ memoirs

Alberto Bolaffi: international collector dies at 89

International collector who put his stamp on high end catalogue publishing

Rabbi Berel Wein: historian and educator dies aged 91

Historian and educator who resurrected “the dying narrative of Jewish history”