Lore Segal, author of autobiographical novels of her life as a young Jewish Viennese refugee in England and as an émigré in America, died on Oct. 7 at her home in Manhattan. She was 96. Ms. Segal was one of 500 children who boarded a train in Vienna as part of the British-organized Kindertransport that delivered them from Nazi-occupied territory to foster families in England. Ms. Segal, age 10, was registered as No. 152, the [...]

Lily Ebert, a Holocaust survivor and author, died Oct. 9, at her home in London. She was 100. In July 1944, when she was 20 years old, she and most of her family were packed onto a train and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp where, on arrival, she watched as her mother and two of her siblings were led to a gas chamber. She vowed that if she survived, she would tell the world [...]

Joseph H. Reich, a financier and philanthropist who with his wife created one of New York City’s first independently-run public schools, proving that impoverished students could outperform expectations in such a setting, and which helped to kick-start the city’s charter-school movement died ongtyt Sept. 29 at his home in Sheffield, MA. He was 89. Convinced that city-run schools were failing to educate students in high-poverty neighborhoods, Mr. Reich and his wife, Carol Friedman Reich, raised [...]

Lillian Schwartz, one of the first artists to mesh art, science and technology through computer-generated art, died on Oct. 12 at her home in Manhattan. She was 97. Early on, she experimented with watercolors, acrylics and sculptures, but turned to the computer when she was invited to join Bell Labs in the late 1960s to create films using photo filters, paint, lasers and discarded footage from science films, among other elements. “I never really could [...]

Arie Kopelman, the president and CEO of Chanel Inc., who with marketing savvy helped transform an old French couture house into a global luxury brand, died on Oct. 7 at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. During his run, the company’s annual sales soared to $7 billion from $357 million, expanding Chanel’s accessories, eyewear, cosmetics, fragrance and skin-care lines. Previously, he spent 20 years at the advertising agency Doyle Dane Bernbach. In 1989, President [...]

Leon N. Cooper, a Nobel-winning physicist who helped unlock the secret of superconductivity and who did pioneering work in understanding how memory and the brain work, died on Oct. 23 at his home in Providence, RI. He was 94. Some of the greatest physicists of thed 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli and Richard Feynman, tried to explain how superconductivity works. Dr. Cooper helped crack the code with two colleagues [...]