Paul Marantz, a prominent architectural lighting designer who illuminated discos and skylines, libraries and hotels, museums and embassies, died on May 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.

His projects included new buildings, including the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar, the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and renovations of Carnegie Hall, Grand Central Terminal, the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library, and David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center. Also Studio 54, the Palladium, and Times Square for New Year’s Eve in 1999.

It has been said that shoemakers’ children often go barefoot. Years ago, when the daughter of a family friend returned home after babysitting at the Marantz home, according to The New York Times, she told her parents, “I thought he was in the lighting business. I couldn’t find a good place to read.”

Marthe Cohn was barely 25 on April 11, 1945, and Jewish, but being blond and blue-eyed, she could pass for an Aryan. She was French, from northeastern Alsace, but spoke German fluently. She was a nurse and 4 feet 11 inches tall. She was also a spy, working with the French resistance to Nazi occupiers in WWII. She died on May 20 at her home in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, where she had settled with her American husband, long after her wartime exploits. Her husband found out about her experiences after they were married, and her children only recently. She was 105.

Early on, to escape the Nazis, a non-Jewish colleague provided false papers, she told The Southern New England Ledger in 2015. As she led her mother and maternal grandmother to safety, she feared that local peasants would report them to the authorities for a reward. One old man in work clothes stared at the three women. “Without saying a word,” she said, he suddenly dropped onto one knee and, hand on his chest, lowered his head in prayer. Next to him, his wife knelt on both knees in the dirt and made the sign of the cross.”

“I could hardly believe my eyes,” she added. “It was so beautiful, the humanity of it. Tears rolled down my cheeks as I nodded my head in silent thanks.”

Ms. Cohn was named a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor in 2004, and awarded the Order of Merit of Germany in 2014. “If you are thrown into certain circumstances, you are going to go through what you never thought you could do,” she said.

Terry Louise Fisher, who channeled her experience as a Los Angeles prosecutor into an Emmy Award-winning television career as a writer and producer for “Cagney & Lacey,” and a creator, with Steven Bochco, of the sleek drama “L.A. Law,” died June 10 in Laguna Hills, CA. She was 79.

In 1983, she began writing for “Cagney & Lacey,” bringing depth and realism to a CBS series focused on two female NYC detectives. “L.A. Law” ran for eight seasons on NBC, tackling thorny issues like abortion, sexual harassment, capital punishment, and AIDS.

 Leftist terrorist murdered two Israel Embassy staffers in Washington, D.C. The attack occurred on May 21, outside the Young Diplomats Reception for young Jewish professionals at the Capital Jewish Museum, hosted by the American Jewish Committee. The two staffers, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, a German-Israeli dual citizen, who had immigrated to Israel at the age of 16 and served in the Israel Defense Forces, and Sarah Milgrim, 26, were shot at close range by a gunman who opened fire and killed them.

Arrested was Elias Rodriguez, 31, who pretended to be a bystander after the shooting. When police arrived, the man turned himself in and told the officers, “I did this, I did this for Palestine.”

Don Mischer, an award-winning producer and director who brought meticulous preparation to live television extravaganzas like award shows, Olympic opening ceremonies, Super Bowl halftime performances, and the 2004 Democratic National Convention, died April 11 in Los Angeles. He was 85.

Mr. Mischer was the executive producer of NBC’s broadcast of the opening ceremony at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City; the Primetime Emmy Awards numerous times between 1993 and 2019; and the Tony Awards from 1987 to 1989. He also directed the Academy Awards ceremonies in 2011 and 2012, and several Super Bowl halftime shows.

He won 15 Emmy Awards and 10 Directors Guild of America Awards as well as the guild’s Life Achievement Award in 2019.

Aliza Magen, who spent more than 40 years working for the Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, eventually serving as deputy under three of its directors, making her the highest-ranking woman in the organization’s history, died on April 14 in Jerusalem. She was 87. She participated in some of the Mossad’s biggest operations, although many of the details of her work remain classified.

It was often hard for a woman to rise in the ranks of the Mossad, she said. Top leadership roles require experience working undercover in foreign countries, assignments that are difficult for women to manage while raising a family. At the same time, she pointed out that women agents often have an easier time working undercover because people are less likely to be suspicious of them.

Walter Frankenstein, who with his family hid from the Nazis for more than two years by taking refuge in abandoned buildings, cars, forests, craters, brothels, and wherever they could survive, died on April 21 in Stockholm, where he had lived since 1956. He was 100.

To support his family, he worked as a mason, which brought him into contact with Adolf Eichmann, a pivotal architect of the Final Solution, who threatened him as he did plastering work in Eichmann’s o residence. “One speck and you’re in Auschwitz tomorrow,” he recalled Eichmann saying.

In later life, the Frankensteins regularly visited Germany, where Mr. Frankenstein spoke at schools and museums. Klaus Hillenbrand, Mr. Frankenstein’s biographer, said that “keeping the memory of the Shoah was a mission for him.”