HILDA JANE SILVERMAN
Virginia Beach —Hilda J. Silverman, 88, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister went to be with the Lord on October 19, 2016. She was born in Seth, West Virginia and resided most of her life in...
View ArticleRABBI BEN ZION SHENKER, COMPOSER OF 500 HASIDIC MELODIES
Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker, who composed more than 500 Hasidic melodies, or niggunim, including some recorded by Itzhak Perlman, has died. Shenker died Nov. 20 in Brooklyn, New York, at 91. He reportedly...
View ArticleDefiant Requiem
Sunday, Jan. 15 TCC Roper Performing Arts Center, Norfolk The Holocaust Commission of the UJFT has a unique opportunity to collaborate with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and the Virginia Festival of...
View ArticleAlvin Jack Bookbinder
Virginia Beach —Alvin Jack Bookbinder, 94, of Virginia Beach passed away on December 12, 2016. Jack was one of five children born to Minnie and Hyman Bookbinder. He was raised in Newport News,...
View ArticleJames Kurtz
Norfolk —James Ronald Kurtz, 58, passed away December 11, 2016. He was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia and grew up in Chesapeake, Virginia. He was preceded in death by his parents, James and Ann Kurtz...
View ArticleThomas A. Lindsey
Virginia Beach —Thomas Aaron Lindsey, 95, died in his home in Virginia Beach on December 4, 2016 surrounded by loving friends and family. A World War II and Navy Veteran born in Chicago, Thomas, the...
View ArticleBenjamin Allan Marks
Virginia Beach —Benjamin Allan Marks passed away November 29, 2016 at age 82. He was a devoted husband, confidant and friend to Nancy. He was a loving father to daughter Carolyn (Mark) Jacobs of...
View ArticleLarry David Rosenbaum
Norfolk —Larry David Rosenbaum, 64, died October 9, 2016. His parents, Elliott and Charlotte A. Rosenbaum, and sister, Ilene R. Soroko predeceased him. Altmeyer Funeral Home.
View ArticleHarriet Martin Salsbury
Norfolk—Harriet Martin Salsbury, 92, of the 7200 block of Granby Street, died December 12, 2016. Mrs. Salsbury was born in Sekernice, Czechoslovakia in 1924 and came to the United States when she was...
View ArticleAdolf Burger, last of “Hitler’s counterfeiters”
PRAGUE (JTA)—Adolf Burger, a Holocaust survivor who was forced by the Nazis to counterfeit British banknotes during World War II , has died in Prague at 99, his family said. Burger, a native of...
View ArticleBrooklyn mother who lost 7 children in house fire plans to build family...
The Brooklyn mother who lost seven of her children in a house fire said in her first public remarks on the March 2015 tragedy that she wants to build a center for families on the site of her razed...
View ArticleFirst cousins who thought entire family died in Holocaust united in Israel
Two pairs of Polish Jewish siblings, who each believed their entire families died in the Holocaust, met for the first time at the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. The tale started earlier this...
View ArticleRita Ackerman Goldberg
Virginia Beach —Rita Ackerman Goldberg, 92, passed away January 3, 2017. She was born on July 18, 1924 in the Bronx, New York to Louis and Rose Ackerman. Rita Goldberg was a delightful, funny, feisty,...
View ArticleSuzanne B. Goldberg
Potomac , Md.—On Monday, December 19, 2016, Suzanne B. Goldberg passed away. She was the beloved wife of the late Morris Goldberg; devoted mother of Wendy (Rocky) Gutin, and the late Lisa Frank; loving...
View ArticleRebecca A. Green
Norfolk —Rebecca (Becky) Green, 94, passed away peacefully on January 6, 2017. She began her civil service career in 1942 and as a woman ahead of her time, in 1958, at the request of the general for...
View ArticleWilliam E. Haines, Jr.
Virginia Beach —William “Bill” Edward Haines, Jr., 71, passed away surrounded by his family and dear friends on Wednesday, January 4, 2017. He fought the good fight on his terms and was a towering...
View ArticleGladys Cansino Lehman
Richmond —Gladys Cansino Lehman passed away on December 26, 2016. She is survived by her loving husband Alfred W. Lehman, her four children, Robert, Laurence, Nancy and her husband Andrew Newman, and...
View ArticleBenjamin Moskowitz
Virginia Beach —Benjami n Moskowitz, 91, passed away peacefully at home December 28, 2016. He leaves behind a loving wife of 71 years, Grace Roth Moskowitz; daughter, Gayle Schroeder; son Robert...
View ArticleSheila Sutland Pakula
BALTIMORE, MD.—On November 29, 2016, Sheila Sutland Pakula (nee Sutland) passed away quietly at her home in Baltimore. Sheila was the beloved wife of pediatrician Dr. Lawrence Pakula for 59 years. She...
View ArticleNorman Prince
Virginia Beach —Norman Prince, 83, died on Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. He was the son of the late Nathan and Anna Prince and was predeceased by his wife, Sheila Prince. He was born in Massachusetts and...
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