Solomon Perel, a German Jew who posed as a member of the Hitler Youth to survive WWII, died at age 97. His story was dramatized in the 1990 film, Europa Europa.

Shevah Weiss, who served in the Knesset and as an Israeli ambassador to Poland, died at age 87 in the Holy Land.

Fred Terna, an artist who tried to exorcize the psychological trauma of his imprisonment in four Nazi concentration and labor camps with paintings that depicted fire, ashes and chimneys, died at age 99.                                                                                                                                                                                              From The Forward