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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
78 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 4
TONI Steif was born in Bucharest, Romania. I met Toni when she was nine years old after my family moved into Toni’s neighbourhood. We became friends and played all the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →EACH week we read a biblical section during the Sabbath services. This week, we conclude the Book of Genesis, Sidrat Vayechi, “And he lived”. It’s remarkable tale starts with the story…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →JACK Weiser was born in Spisska Nova Ves, Czechoslovakia, the fourth of Shimshon Zvi and Taube Liebe’s five children. He was brought up in an Orthodox home in the…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →THE first Jewish funeral in two years was conducted in the northern Victorian gold-mining town of Bendigo this week. Gregory Shapiro, who died after a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →FROM the time she was just two years old, Ronni Redman would give money to those begging on the streets in Cape Town. For the rest of her life, a passionate concern for others…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →RALPH Cunio was bom in Hong Kong, one of five children of a distinguished and scholarly Sephardic family. In Ralph’s younger years, his family moved to Shanghai where he…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →NATHAN Waigensberg’s life could best be summarised by his fighting spirit, his determination, and his love of Israel. These qualities remained with him till his last breath…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →DO you know of anyone in American history, or world history for that matter, who has gone from dying in a hospice to living another year with renewed fame, international…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →HELEN Whitmont passed away on Shabbat Shemot. It seems a fitting time for her passing, for in the parsha we read about many extraordinary women, on the very Shabbat that one…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →MARIE Goldberg was the eldest child of Sam and Annie Goldberg and sister of Leon, Charles and Harold. Her parents both came from families with long histories of devotion…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →IRMA Stahler (nee Bick) was bom on June 8, 1899 in Tesany, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. She was the eldest child of Helen and Maurice Bick, who…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →DANNY Slade was born in Amsterdam in 1915. He left school before he was 15 and soon realised his skills in selling. His father, uncles and brothers were all in the diamond…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →FLORENCE Melton will forever be immortalised in the schools of adult Jewish education around the world that bear her name. Melton, who died on February 8 in Florida…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →GABOR FELDHEIM was a very private and humble man, who kept his emotions close to his chest. He survived the Holocaust while working in the Underground, but he was so…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →PAUL Oblat was born in Budapest in 1908. He had two brothers, Jeno and Andor. His father was a noted accountant for one of the leading Hungarian newspapers. After…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →ON sports days, young Hilde Guckenheimer stood alone in street clothes, as her Aryan school friends marched by in smart sports uniforms singing antisemitic songs…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →MY mum was born to Bernard and Lotte Schachter on December 23, 1923, in Lvov, Poland. Along with her siblings, Izu, Cuba and Dora, Fella grew up in a warm Jewish…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →FANNY Farkas was bom on June 25,1917, the first child of Samuel and Sarah Bienstock, in Cologne, Germany. She excelled at Yavneh High School and…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →ANITA (Ania) Caplan was bom in Chigrin in the Ukraine on June 1, 1910. Ania was the youngest child and the only girl out of 16 or 17 children. Her mother, Chaya Bluma, died…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →ANDY Freeman was bom into a prominent Orthodox family on September 22, 1914 in Satu Mare (Satmar), Romania. His parents wanted a balanced education for Andy and…
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