Greta Friedman, who came to the United States as a Jewish refugee and unwittingly became the subject of an iconic World War II photo, died Sep. 8 of pneumonia at a Richmond, VA hospital.
Masha Loen, the last living founder of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH), the oldest Holocaust Museum in the United States, died peacefully in the care of her loving son, David yesterday. She was a champion of LAMOTH since 1961, and a force to be reckoned with.
Obituaries: Week of September 9th, 2016.
Renowned film and television Director Leslie H. Martinson died September 3, 2016 at the age of 101.
Esther Jungreis, a pioneer in the Jewish outreach movement and founder of the organization Hineni, died Aug. 23. She was 80, according to the Vos Iz Neias blog.
Howard David Pilch, of Beverly Hills, passed away at the age of 69 on Tuesday, Aug. 30. He was a former President of Temple Beth Am and a prominent Jewish philanthropist.
Back in the day, broadcast journalists came in three varieties.
Eunice Armond-Greenstein died July 28 at 97. Survived by daughter Leslie (Steven) Saeta; 2 grandchildren; 1 great-grandchild. Hillside
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