Posted on December 12, 2007 by balev
Walter Gerson, 85, who prepared a seder in a German war zone in 1945, and who later interrogated Nazi prisoners near the war’s end, died Dec. 8, 2007, in San Diego, California.
Gerson was a Jewish chaplain for a time during the war, because no official chaplains were available, according to an oral history quoted in [...]
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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 21, 2007 by balev
Moish Ellis, 86, Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 17, 2007. He was involved in Sephardic Jewish community, member of board of Sephardic Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, President of Friendship, Truth & Benevolent Society of Kastoryalis, gabai of its synagogue, and leader of Broome and Allen Boys Association.
Rabbi Yonah H. Geller, 87, Portland, Oregon, Nov. 15, 2007. He [...]
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