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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 year when one of the siblings, Fania Blakay, found a testimony in the Yad Vashem database about her father. The testimony [...]

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 home. “What consoles me most is working on the positive—not lamenting on the negative,” Gayle Sassoon [...]

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 Slovakia, was a typographer by profession. He was arrested in 1942 for producing false baptism records for Jews scheduled for transports [...]

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 nine years old and has been a resident of Norfolk for the past 70 years. She was the daughter of the late [...]

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.

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 Florida as well as a loving grandfather to Rachel Jacobs. He will be dearly missed. A graveside service took place at [...]

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 son of David and Tillie Lindsey, met his loving wife of 65 years Edith Gordon Lindsey while stationed in Norfolk [...]

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 and a brother-in-law, Edward Jordan. He is survived by his sisters, Phyllis Jordan, Carol Wenger and husband James, Sharon Nusbaum [...]

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, Virginia, and returned to this area after he proudly served in the Navy during World War II on the USS Bogue. Mr. [...]

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 Jewish Film to show the award-winning documentary, Defiant Requiem on Sunday, Jan. 15. The Virginia Symphony will perform Verdi’s Requiem on March 17 at [...]