Lionel A. Rosenblatt, a U.S. Foreign Service officer, who helped roughly 200 South Vietnamese citizens evacuate Saigon days before it fell in 1975 with a daring, unauthorized mission that prefaced a career advocating for refugees in Southeast Asia and other global hot spots, died on April 11 at his home in Washington. He was 82. Concerned about the fate of the Vietnamese who had worked with the United States during the war, tens of thousands [...]

Sonia Pressman Fuentes, an early women’s rights lawyer who told the feminist author Betty Friedan that women needed an advocacy group to fight for them the way the N.A.A.C.P. fought for Black Americans, planting the seed for the National Organization for Women, died on Dec. 20 in Sarasota, FL. She was 97. In 1965, Mrs. Fuentes became the first female lawyer in the general counsel’s office at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a new agency [...]

Dr. Judith L. Rapoport, a child psychiatrist who brought public awareness to obsessive-compulsive disorder, died on March 7 in Washington D.C. She was 92.             The disorder had long remained in the shadows because of the shame that surrounded its symptoms, which could include habits like checking and rechecking that appliances were off, performing counting rituals before doing something as simple as walking through a doorway, or scrubbing hands with soap and water until the [...]

Pedro Friedeberg, a Mexican Jewish artist who was often called “The last Surrealist,” known for his hallucinatory paintings of imaginary cities and for his absurdist furniture designs died on March 5 in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He was 90. Born in Italy to German Jewish parents, Mr. Friedeberg moved to Mexico with his family as a child and was later hailed as an artistic force in his adopted country. He worked in various mediums, [...]