Edith Eva Eger, a clinical psychologist and best-selling author whose traumatic experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps — including being forced to dance for Josef Mengele, the notorious physician known as the “Angel of Death” — enabled her to identify with and treat emotionally troubled patients, died on April 27 at her home in San Diego. She was 98. Her emotional recovery took time: For two decades after the war, she did not [...]

Seymour Bernstein, an acclaimed concert pianist, who later turned to teaching, his true calling, he said, died on April 30 in Damariscotta, Maine. He was 99. In spite of rave reviews of his public performances, Mr. Bernstein was never comfortable in the limelight. “I hated the commercial aspect,” he said. “I hated the nerves.” In the early 1950s, during the Korean War, Mr. Bernstein was drafted into the Army. Sent to Korea in the same [...]

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 [...]