Obituaries

Virginia Beach —Benjamin Brooke, 90, passed away peacefully on Saturday, January 7, 2017...

Two pairs of Polish Jewish siblings, who each believed their entire families died in the...

The Brooklyn mother who lost seven of her children in a house fire said in her first public...

PRAGUE (JTA)—Adolf Burger, a Holocaust survivor who was forced by the Nazis to counterfeit British...

Norfolk—Harriet Martin Salsbury, 92, of the 7200 block of Granby Street, died December 12, 2016....

Norfolk —Larry David Rosenbaum, 64, died October 9, 2016. His parents, Elliott and Charlotte A....

Virginia Beach —Benjamin Allan Marks passed away November 29, 2016 at age 82. He was a devoted...

Virginia Beach —Thomas Aaron Lindsey, 95, died in his home in Virginia Beach on December 4, 2016...

Norfolk —James Ronald Kurtz, 58, passed away December 11, 2016. He was born in Virginia Beach,...

Virginia Beach —Alvin Jack Bookbinder, 94, of Virginia Beach passed away on December 12, 2016....

Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker, who composed more than 500 Hasidic melodies, or niggunim, including some...

Virginia Beach —Hilda J. Silverman, 88, beloved wife, mother, grandmother and sister went to be...

Norfolk —Joan Marilyn Pizor, 85, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. Born in...

Virginia Beach —Selma Lilian Graber nee Levin was born to Rose and Harry Levin on October 10, 1932...

Norfolk —Harriet S. Collector, 91, passed away peacefully in her home on November 28, 2016,...

LVIV, Ukraine (JTA)—City workers in a Ukraine city suspended their digging at a former Jewish...

Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was buried in his hometown of Montreal hours before his death was...

Virginia Beach—Joyce Hofheimer Strelitz, Our Blithe Spirit—“Gila”—passed away peacefully without...

Norfolk —Elliott L. Roesen passed away November 10, 2016. A native of Norfolk, he was the son of...

Virg inia Beach —Beverly Gleischman (Anderson) passed away on November 9, 2016 at the age of 87....