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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
87 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 5
THE Honourable Kenneth Henry Marks was born in St Kilda on September 10, 1924, the son of Harry and Phoebe Marks. Ken was the second youngest in a family of five boys,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →FRED Katz was born in Poland in 1920, in a small town called Osmolin not far from Warsaw to his parents Menachem Mendel and Leah Chaimovitch, the fifth of eight…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MOSES (Morrie) Pearl, a family man, a man of immense personal strengths, and a symbol of his generation of Polish Jews who endured the Holocaust, survived and then prospered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →IT was a hot, sweltering day in the fall of 1999, the air conditioners in the Knesset in Jerusalem were not working properly, and I was going…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →STELLA Sabto, who died aged 94, is remembered as a beautiful, proud, and determined person. She had high expectations of herself and her children…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WE are here today to celebrate Alan's life, but also to mourn his passing for a few moments - for there is no doubt in my mind that Alan impacted the lives of everyone…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CARA Walker, who died aged 89, was renowned as a WIZO stalwart and devoted matriarch. Cara was born on August 10, 1916, in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →JERUSALEM - Over 200,000 mourners (pictured below) - Charedi, modern Orthodox and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →ANDREA Bronfman kept the book-lined study in her Jerusalem home exactly as it had been when the house belonged to her parents years before. The gesture, say those who knew…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ANDREW Simons was born to Les and Renee Simons in December of 1946. The family migrated from England to Sydney in 1951 and settled in Bondi. Soon after, Andrew's father…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →LUTZ Hans Wertheim was born to Adolf and Hedwig Wertheim in the university town of Gttingen in Germany on April 10, 1914, shortly before the outbreak of World War I…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →NEW YORK - Playwright Wendy Wasserstein was known for her wry portrayal of strong, conflicted women. While not always overtly Jewish, her…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MELBOURNE - Bet-Olam Jewish Funerals, the funeral service operated by the Victorian Union for Progressive Judaism, has recently…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →EDDIE Kornhauser was unique, colourful, unconventional and remarkable. But above all, he was talented and determined, a dynamic visionary who made an…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →NEW YORK - Coretta Scott King understood that a people who fight for their own rights are only as honorable as when they fight for the rights of all people. In this spirit, she…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →THE inimitable, instantly recognisable voice of Shoshana Damari, who passed away at age 83, was not silenced. It will continue to resonate in the hearts of those Israelis who…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SAMUEL Berrima Brandon, more widely known as Berry Brandon, was born at sea between Cape Town and Australia on July 2, 1923 on board the SS Berrima…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →LEE Simmons was a man who touched people’s lives with his gentle nature and his beautiful…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →ANNE Perkal’s parents, Pearl and Rafael Feller, fled to England from Poland in the late 1800s, where Anne was bom on April 15,1905, the second oldest of five surviving…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →ANDRE Vermes was bom in Hungary on March 1, 1942. During the 1956 Revolution, 14-year-old Andre fled Hungary with his parents and sister, swimming across a freezing,…
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