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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
87 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 5
NEW YORK - Harold Ostroff, longtime general manager of America’s best-known Jewish newspaper and a giant in the worlds of affordable housing and Yiddish culture,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →BETTY Waxman was a woman of incredible strength who gave tirelessly in her commitment to family and community. She was a perfectionist and excelled at…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →SAM Golland, who passed away last month at the age of 95 years, was a meticulous man of immense patience, two attributes which played a part in his being recognised as one of…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →JANINA Golabek, or Nina to her friends, was bom in Cracow, Poland, on September 4, 1925. She was the daughter of Hela and Solomon Rosner and the older sister to Joe…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →MY father, Frank Reichard, was born in Budapest, Hungary on October 21, 1925. He was the oldest of three children bom to Emo and Vally Reichard…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →WASHINGTON - Caspar Weinberger was the former US secretary of defence who pushed for a life sentence for Jonathan Pollard and oversaw US forces in Lebanon…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →AGI Torok’s death was totally unexpected, if you can say that about a 90 year old. She had visited her husband Andrew’s grave on his birthday the Friday before she died and, after…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →DAVID Pearl was a man of great passion, love, discipline, business savvy and generosity - a mensch. David was born in Wolbrum, Poland. He…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →MAX Goldman - Mati, or Dojo as he was affectionately known as by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren - was born in Kezmarok, a small town in the Slovakian…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →TEL AVIV - Ido Yunes, son of Lily Yunes, 43, who was killed in the Tel Aviv bombing, cries on her grave as she is about to be buried in Tel Aviv's Yarkon cemetery. “Nothing can be done, it’s…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →HERMAN Spertus loved to tell the story of how, in 1923, he and his brother were able to elude the Communist authorities in their native Ukraine and make it to the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →EMANUEL (Manny) Fisher was born in Berlin, the youngest of three children, just as the tension in Europe began to rise. At the age of five, he began to play the violin, developing…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →JOHN Joseph Eisman was bom in Lowicz, Poland on July 19, 1920, the youngest child of Joshua and Sarah Rebecca Ajzeman. They were a well respected family of millers…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →AFTER a rabbinical career spanning quaint pre-war Hungarian mountain villages and a 21st-century empire in New York with an estimated 50,000 chassidim and several…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →“ART Buchwald is dying, and is having the time of his life.” This is the typical opening line of many articles written in recent weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →ARNOLD Newhouse was bom in Melbourne in 1927 to Abe and Chana Newhouse, who had escaped the pogroms of Eastern Europe, arriving in Australia via Palestine. At the age of two,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →BETTY was born in Sydney to Fay (nee Baker) and Victor Lurie, who had emigrated from England in 1925 with Betty’s two older siblings, Matt and Norah…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →ROSE (Rozsi) Visontay never did anything quietly. When at the age of 101, she finally needed to go to hospital for tests, she told the ambulance officers to go away. “Come back…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →AM Rosenthal was the chief editor of the New York Times - arguably the world’s most prominent newspaper - for over 17 years. His list of journalistic achievements is formidable:…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →RALPH Meyer was bom in Duisburg, Germany in 1929 to Ernst and Gretel Meyer. He had the good fortune to arrive in Australia with his widowed mother and sister Liesel just…
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