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Oatis died September 16, 1997, at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, from complications of Alzheimer's disease. [14] He was survived by his sons Jonathan and Jeremy. His wife Laurabelle died of natural causes on June 19, 2012, at the age of 88.
Janet Clara Malcolm (born Jana Klara Wienerová; [1] July 8, 1934 – June 16, 2021) was an American writer, staff journalist at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist who fled antisemitic persecution in Nazi-occupied Prague. [2]
Kaufman drew on his experience covering Eastern Europe for the Times in the mid-80's and as Deputy foreign editor from 1989 to 1992, helping the times to organize their reporting on the collapse of Communism. [5] He also wrote for The New York Times Magazine; after retiring in 1999, he wrote obituaries of world and national leaders. [1]
Visitation is 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Bruzek Funeral Home in New Prague. An obituary posted on the Bruzek Funeral Home website recalled King as a hard-working and passionate attorney, a Packers ...
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), Ivan Král moved to the United States in 1966 as a refugee [13] with his parents, who were diplomats.His father Karel Král, a reporter at the United Nations, brought worldwide attention to the pending Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and publicly denounced the action, [14] subsequently deciding not to return. [15]
Obit is the first documentary [citation needed] to look into the world of newspaper obituaries, via the obituary desk at The New York Times. Writers are interviewed as they research and compose obituaries, including one for William P. Wilson, who coached John F. Kennedy on his historic TV debate with Richard Nixon, [4] and one for Dick Rich, who developed ground-breaking advertising for Alka ...
Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (né Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British stockbroker and humanitarian who helped to rescue refugee children, mostly Jewish, whose families had fled persecution by Nazi Germany.
[39] [40] After his death in 2021, the 737 was used to repatriate his body back to the Czech Republic. [41] [better source needed] He lived in an extensive residence in the village of Podkozí near Prague, and owned a number of other properties in various countries. [42] He also owned one of the largest collections of photographs taken by Josef ...