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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
87 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 5
BETTY Lasse, the “Duchess of sunglasses”, often joked that she was just a little Polish immigrant selling sunglasses to make a living. Betty (Busia) Brunhilda Brash was born in…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →DAVID Finger arrived in Australia in 1949 after surviving the horrors of the Holocaust. He started a new life with his parents and four brothers, in a strange…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →THE late Senator John Wheeldon was one of the more interesting and colourful characters of the Whitlam era. He was elected to the cabinet after the 1974 election, replacing Al…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →DAVID Toben was bom in London on April 9, 1934, to Alice and Bernard Toben. He grew up in London with his younger brother Michael; at the age of nine he attended Carmel College,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →MYRTLE Frumar was born in Dubbo, the youngest child of George and Esther Goldberg, who had arrived in Australia in 1908…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →MAX Nowitz was born on May 11, 1922, in Boksburg, South Africa, to Ada and Elias Nowitz, the older brother of Hilda and Morris…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →According to the Ethics of the Fathers, the Almighty loves all those who love his creatures and who bestow goodness “lecaol habriyos” on all his creatures…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →KATIE Keen was born in England on May 5, 1923, the fourth child of Wolf and Myra Simons. Three months later, the family returned to Sydney from where they had…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →JACOB Widawski was born in Wieruszow, Poland, in 1921. The youngest of six, he led a happy and carefree childhood, actively involved in all aspects of Jewish life within the…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au BORN in Surry Hills on June 20, 1917, Gertie Abrahams was the sixth of Katie and David Deitch’s seven children…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →THE passing of Rabbi Louis Jacobs, one of our generation’s most prominent and erudite Jewish scholars, caused me to recall the first time I encountered Rabbi Jacobs in print, in…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →JOHN Julius Hilton (Gyula Heitler) was bom in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia, the youngest of Paula and David Heitler’s five children. On finishing school, he played soccer…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →JERUSALEM — The Jerusalem funeral of IDF reservist Yehuda Greenfeld, who was killed in a Katyusha barrage in Israel’s north, turned to a harsh…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au JUDY Knoll was bom in Budapest 69 years ago. Her father was the chief engineer at Tungsram and her mother was a dressmaker…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →SEND OBITUARIES TO jrobuck@jewishnews.net.au ALLAN Newell (Ele Niewodowski) was bom July 17, 1919 in Bialystok, Poland and passed away one day after his 87th birthday. Allan was…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →LESLIE was born in Sydney and was blessed with wonderful parents, the late Philip and Zelda Caplan, who had imigrated from Eastern Europe. They taught their children, Fae and…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →LEW’S remarkable life began in 1929 as the surviving twin of a very premature birth. He often joked that he inherited “a life and a half’ which was certainly evidenced by his…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →IBI Berkowitz-Kramer, known as Oma to her family, was much loved and will be truly missed She survived the Holocaust’s devastation to live an exuberant life - religious and…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →NATHAN Zusman was bom in Perth, the fourth of eight children in his family. Early in his life his family recognised his talents and enroled him at Perth Modern School, which…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →ADY was much more than just my mother; she was my best friend, and we shared so many secrets. Throughout her life, she was the hardest-working person I have ever known. She was…
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