Posted on December 19, 2007 by balev
Rosemarie Koczy, 68, who survived a childhood in German concentration camps and later spent years creating searing art infused with images of Holocaust victims, died from breast cancer Dec. 12, 2007.
Her works have been gaining increasing stature, despite her status as an art world “outsider,” that is, someone who was not believed to be formally [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2007 by balev
More than 50 million Nazi-era records documenting the fates of 17 million Holocaust victims are now open to the public, 60 years after the archives housing them was created.
The opening of the International Tracing Service records had to wait until the 11 nations that own the archives altered their treaty with the International Committee of [...]
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Posted on November 18, 2007 by balev
Harold Alfond, 93, founder of Dexter Shoe Co., who focused on philanthropy after selling the company in 1993 for $400 million, died Nov. 16, 2007, of complications from cancer.
Alfond was the son of Jewish immigrants from Russia who was born and raised in Swampscott, Mass. He founded Dexter Shoe in 1958 and pioneered the outlet [...]
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