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Sydney · Obituaries & funerals
78 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 4
HENRY Jacob Cowan, known to his friends and family as Jack, was bom on August 21, 1919, in Glogau, Silesia, a region of Germany that is now part of Poland. His father Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →GEORGE was born on April 4, 1922 in Budapest, Hungary, the only child of Oscar and Louisa Mero. He met Edith, his future wife, at a dance school. They became good…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →MICHAEL Angelo Hirschhom was born in Vienna in 1931; the only child of Serena and Edward. Serena and Edward had established a prosperous underwear business, with factory…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →WILLY Bienstock was born in Cologne, Germany, on December 8, 1920 to Samuel and Sara Bienstock, the second of three children. Willy attended Yavneh High School,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →MORRIS Zion Forbes was one of the few real intellectuals in our community. He was a lawyer and a NSW deputy crown solicitor, but for him the law was not only his…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →SALOMON Silberstein was bom in Cairo, Egypt, to religious parents who instilled in him the important values of caring and selfless charity…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →BEN Horin was the last survivor of seven brothers and sisters, being the second youngest. A whole generation has now ended. Bom to Bluma and Isaac Horiniak in London…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →DEBORAH Schapiro, or Dora as she was always known, was bom on April 13, 1916, in Moscow. She fled, along with her parents, from Russia during the counter-revolution…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →SOL Woodman (aka Shlomo Etzioni) made aliyah in 1954 and was a member of Kibbutz Tzora in the Judaean Hills, but he leaves behind many friends in Australia and an…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →“WHAT does “Tops/ mean?” I asked my nana when I was very young. “Topsy,” she said, “is a nickname. My real name is Frances Rebecca, but when I was a…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →ENA Basilkovsky was born on February 17, 1912, in the town of Bialystok in northeastern Poland. She was soon followed by her brother Michael and lived a comfortable life…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →ROBERT Wilkan was bom on March 3, 1933, in Hungary, the son of Richard and Elvera, and brother of Vera. His early childhood was spent in Hungary…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →AGNES (know as Agi) Shelly was bom in Budapest, Hungary, on January 25, 1929, into a fairly typical middle-class, Orthodox Jewish family. She was a vivacious, lively and…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →BORN on July 13, 1917, in Kleinbockenheim in the Rhineland, Lis was the eldest child of Albert and Alice Augusta Mayer. She grew up in a large, white house with her brother…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →MATHEW KISS was bom Miklos Kohn on January 22, 1922, in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary. Mathew was the oldest son of David and Serene, the second of eight children. His…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →LISA Kruger was bom in Bucharest, Romania in 1940, the only child of Lazar and Paula Berkowitz. As an infant, she was separated from her mother, who was dying from…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →TANYA Sackville, who died on November 5, aged only 37, was a person of beauty, goodness, courage, compassion and insight. Her tragic death has provoked an outpouring of…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →ON December 5, 2007 Irene Borton, at 89, became the oldest person to graduate from Melton. On December 10, 2008, she passed away after a fall…
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