Entries tagged as ‘holocaust’
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 trained in art and who did not travel in art world circles. Her art, including tapestries and pen-and-ink drawings, has been shown in the U.S., Japan and Europe. (more…)
Categories: Americans · Artists · Cancer · Europeans · Holocaust Victims · new york
Tagged: art, croton, drawing, guggenheim, holocaust, Jewish, obituary, yad vashem
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 the Red Cross, which manages the documents, Deutsche Welle reported. The records will help thousands trace the fates of lost relatives and friends. (more…)
Categories: Europeans · Holocaust Victims
Tagged: germany, holocaust, nazis, red cross, shoah
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 concept, selling imperfect and discontinued products at 80 stores.
The company maintained a U.S. manufacturing presence after many other U.S. firms, but eventually moved all of its manufacturing overseas.
After selling out to giant Berkshire Hathaway in 1993, Alfond stepped up charitable giving, primarily to educational institutions and for college scholarships in Maine and New England.
In 2005, the most recent year for which records are available, the Harold Alfond Foundation gave $100,000 to the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine. It donated more than $25 million total, primarily to educational institutions in Maine and New England. Among the largest donations of the year was $2 million to Maine General Health Cancer Center.
Alfond became a minority partner in the Boston Red Sox in 1978.
He was married to Dorothy “Bibby” Levine, who died in 2006, for 63 years. They had four children, 13 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren.
Categories: Americans · Businesspeople · Philanthropists
Tagged: holocaust, maine, scholarships, sports
