Faye Schulman, a Holocaust survivor who lost most of her family to the Nazis but joined a group of partisan fighters and documented their work in photographs, died April 24. She was 101.

Schulman’s photographs often depicted the smiling faces of young partisan fighters, with Schulman at times at the center in a stylish leopard print coat. Michael Berkowitz, a professor of Jewish history at University College London, told The Forward that her photos were “extremely important in documenting the history of the resistance.”

Schulman’s family was killed in 1942 when the Nazis liquidated the ghetto in Lenin, Poland. She was saved due to her occupation; she was put to work photographing Nazi officials and developing prints.

She joined the partisans after escaping to the forests, and she became a nurse to wounded partisan soldiers. She was liberated by Soviet troops in 1944, and later that year married a fellow Jewish member of the partisans, Morris Schulman. In 1995, Schulman published a book, A Partisan’s Memoir: Woman of the Holocaust that included many of her photographs.

American actor, director and producer Norman Nathan Lloyd died May 10 at age 106.

He appeared on Broadway as Japhet in André Obey’s biblical play “Noah” in 1935, and later as Cinna the Poet in Orson Welles’ 1937 staging of “Julius Caesar.” When Alfred Hitchcock was looking for an actor to play the title role in his 1942 film “Saboteur,” Lloyd’s performance made him a memorable baddie.

Hitchcock would remain a professional friend, eventually employing Lloyd as producer and director for his TV suspense programs, and casting him in “Spellbound,” “A Walk in the Sun,” and “Arch of Triumph.” Later, film audiences applauded Lloyd in “Dead Poets Society” and TV audiences enjoyed his performance of Dr. Daniel Auschlander in the 1980s medical drama “St. Elsewhere.” As producer, Norman Lloyd brought culture to TV with presentations of Arthur Miller’s “Incident at Vichy,” Bruce Jay Friedman’s “Steambath,” Clifford Odets’ “Awake and Sing,” and Lillian Hellman’s Another Part of the Forest,” among others.

Spencer Silver, a research chemist at 3M who created the kind of adhesive that allows Post-It Notes to be removed from surfaces as easily as they adhere to them, died May 8 at his home in St. Paul, MN. He was 80.

Since their introduction in 1980, Post-It Notes have become a ubiquitous office product, first in the form of little canary-yellow pads — billions of which are sold annually — and later in different hues and sizes. There are currently more than 3,000 Post-It brand products globally.

At first, the adhesive appeared to be the solution to a problem that didn’t exist, The New York Times said. But Dr. Silver promoted his adhesive throughout 3M in the hope that product development people would recognize it as the Breakthrough Dr. Silver thought it was.

Art Fry, a chemical engineer in the tape division lab, had heard about Dr. Silver’s adhesive. “It was a eureka, head-flapping moment,” Mr. Fry told Financial Times. Mr. Fry received a patent for the Post-It,

technically a “repositionable pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet material.”

Dr. Silver and Mr. Fry were inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2010. Dr. Silver received the American Chemical Society’s Award for Creative Invention in 1998.

Alber Elbaz, a Moroccan-born Israeli fashion designer who rejuvenated Lanvin and had recently started a new venture, AZ Factory, died April 24 in Paris. He was 59. The cause was Covid-19, according to Richemont, the company backing Mr. Elbaz’s brand.

Beloved by his celebrity clients, like Meryl Streep, Natalie Portman, Beyoncé, Lupita Nyong’o and Michelle Obama, and his peers, Mr. Albaz had launched AZ Factory after a five-year hiatus following his abrupt firing from Lanvin, where he was fashion director from 2001 to 2015.

In 2015, as he received the Fashion Group International award, he said, “We designers, we ask ‘What do women want? What do women need? What can I do for a woman to make her life better and easier? How can I make a woman more beautiful?’”

In New York, Mr. Elbaz became the assistant designer of Geoffrey Beene, then moved to Paris in 1996 to become head of design at Guy Laroche. Two years later, Yves Saint Laurent chose Mr. Elbaz to take over as his heir. When Gucci Group bought the brand in 1999, Mr. Elbaz was soon fired in favor of Tom Ford.

Mr. Elbaz received the International Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 2005, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2007. In 2016, the French government named him an officer of the Legion of Honor.

“I asked myself, ‘If I was a woman, what would I want?’” Mr. Elbaz told The New York Times in January. “Something that is first comfortable. Something fun. Something that lets me eat a big piece of cake.” [Pictured, a 2011 design by Mr. Elbaz for Lanvin. Francois Guillot/AFP via Getty Images]

 Eli Broad, a businessman and philanthropist whose vast fortune, extensive art collection and zeal for civic improvement helped reshape the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 87.

The museums, medical research centers and cultural institutions emblazoned with the names of Mr. Broad and his wife, Edythe, include the Broad Art Center at the University of California at Los Angeles, the Broad Center for the Biological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology; and centers for regenerative medicine and stem-cell research at three California universities. The Broad, a $140 million art museum that he financed himself, opened in 2015. He gave $50 million to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, played a pivotal role in creating the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and brokered the deal that brought to the museum Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo’s important collection of Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art.

He was particularly avid in acquiring works by Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly and Jeff Koons. In 2005, he paid $23.5 million for “Cubi XXVIII,” a work by the American sculptor David Smith, at that time a record auction price for a contemporary artist.

Together, the Broad Art Foundation and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, which is devoted to education, science and medicine, have assets of $2.4 billion and have dispensed hundreds of millions of dollars, putting the Broads among the leading philanthropists in the United States.

“I want to give back, and I also have a big ego” Mr. Broad told Forbes magazine in 2003. “I’d rather be recognized for doing good than for just making money.”

Lester L. Wolff, a former New York Democratic congressman who championed President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs in the 1960s and America’s fight against international drug trafficking in the ‘70s, died May 11 in Syosset, NY. He was 102.

Born in 1919, Mr. Wolff was the oldest living former member of the House of Representatives. Serving from 1965 to 1981, he co-sponsored the original Medicare law; carried a message from China’s paramount leader, Deng Xiao-ping, to President Jimmy Carter that led to full Sino-American diplomatic recognition in 1979; and helped expose Indochina’s so-called Golden Triangle as a major source of heroin destined for the United States and its troops in Vietnam.

In 1950, Mr. Wolff founded the Coordinated Marketing Agency, which placed ads for regional grocery store chains. The company prospered, and he remained chairman until 1964, when he ran for Congress. After his congressional years, he was a director on various corporate boards and a consultant on Asian affairs and international trade. For years, he commuted to Washington to interview House and Senate members for the weekly PBS public affairs program, “Ask Congress.”

Robert E. Slavin died April 24 in Baltimore, MD. He was 70. Dr. Slavin, a sociologist, helped shift the emphasis in classrooms across the country toward teaching reading through phonics, mixing students of different aptitudes rather than educating them on separate tracks, and testing them for vision and other factors that could affect their education.

Dr. Slavin was the author of two dozen books, most of which elaborated on his commitment to “evidence-based” research that substantiated the most effective teaching methods. In 2020, he was named the Johns Hopkins School of Education’s first distinguished professor.

In the last entry on his blog, Dr. Slavin wrote: “All of us go into education to solve real problems in real classrooms. Education keeps growing in techniques and capability. But it’s useful to stop from time to time and remember why we do what we do, and for whom.”