Tuesday, June 23

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Bernard Stalter, politician
14Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
France, High Profilers, Profiles

Bernard Stalter, politician

Bernard Stalter was a French entrepreneur and politician died on 13 April in Strasbourg at the age of 63 due to COVID 19. Stalter was born on 12 March 1957 in Brumath. At age 14, he began a hairdressing apprenticeship. After he became a certified hairdresser, he worked for the French Army at the Entzheim Air Base. He opened his first salon in Brumath in 1993. Stalter was elected Chair of the Conseil Economique et Social d'Alsace in November 2007, succeeding Jean-Marie Sander. He resigned in 2013. In 2014, he became President of the Union Nationale des Entreprises de Coiffure. He was a part of the Union Nationale des Entreprises de Coiffure from 2015 to 2018. He was President of Beaute Diffusion Events, which earned €1,468,397 in 2015. He was also an agent for Sarl la Coiffu...
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Avrohom Pinter, religious scholar
14Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Avrohom Pinter, religious scholar

Avrohom Pinter an English rabbi and a leading figure in the Haredi community in Stamford Hill, London died in London of COVID-19 on 13 April 2020. Pinter was also a local government politician who served as a Labour councillor on the Hackney Borough Council (Northfield ward, elected 1982 and 1986). He also represented Haredi interests on the London Jewish Forum. In 2014 he was ranked by the Jewish Chronicle as no. 32 on their list of influential British Jews. He was the principal of the Yesodey Hatorah Senior Girls' School, a role in which he received praise and criticism. Pinter, a son of Rabbi Shmuel (Shmelke) Pinter, was born in Stamford Hill in 1949. He married Gittel Beck (1947–2014) in 1971 and they had several children together, two of whom, Yisrael and Chaim, became rab...
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Dennis Gail Peters, electrochemist
14Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Medics, Profiles, United States

Dennis Gail Peters, electrochemist

Dennis Gail Peters an analytical chemist who specialized in electrochemistry and was named the Herman T. Briscoe Professor at Indiana University in 1975 died of hospital-acquired coronavirus disease 2019 on 13 April 2020. Peters led his own research group at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana until his death in 2020. Peters' research focused on the electrochemical behavior of halogenated organic compounds, more recently moving to focus on transition metal catalysts in regards to the oxidation and reduction of organic species. He authored or co-authored over 210 publications and 5 analytical chemistry textbooks. Dennis Peters was born on April 17, 1937, in Los Angeles, California. He completed his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the California Institute of Tech...
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Sarah Maldoror, filmmaker
14Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Sarah Maldoror, filmmaker

Sarah Maldoror a French filmmaker of French West Indies descent died on 13 April 2020, at the age of 90, from COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France. Maldoror is best known for her feature film Sambizanga (1972) on the 1961–1974 war in Angola. Born Sarah Durados in 1929 in Condom, Gers, the daughter of emigrants from Guadeloupe, she chose her artist's name in remembrance of Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautréamont. She attended a drama school in Paris. Together with her husband, Angolan nationalist Mário Pinto de Andrade, she received a scholarship and studied film with Mark Donskoi in Moscow in 1961–62 where she met Ousmane Sembène. After her studies, Maldoror, worked as an assistant on Gillo Pontecorvo's acclaimed film, The Battle of Algiers (1966). She also worked as an as...
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Abdelkrim Hammoundi, General Practitioner
14Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
Algeria, Medics, Profiles

Abdelkrim Hammoundi, General Practitioner

Abdelkrim Hammoundi – a General Practitioner at EPSP Bouzereah, Algiers, Algeria – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. It was reported on April 14, 2020. Hammoundi was 61 years old. The deceased was hospitalized for 10 days in the same hospital, after having tested positive for Covid-19. Source: Observ Algerie Please help us in adding details.
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Benjamin Levin, holocaust survivor
14Apr By Web TeamNo Comments
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Benjamin Levin, holocaust survivor

Benjamin Levin a Jewish partisan during World War II, the last surviving member of the Avengers group led by Abba Kovner died on April 13, 2020 from COVID-19. After the war, he joined the Irgun, and was one of the surviving crew members of the Altalena ship. In 1967, he immigrated to the United States. Levin was born in Vilna, then part of the Second Polish Republic. He was the son of Chaim Levin, a local merchant and gourmet food shop owner. After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the family initially fled to the village of Michališki [be] in present-day Belarus. When it became unsafe, the family returned to Vilna and lived in Vilna Ghetto. In 1943, when he was 16 years old, Levin and his older brother Shmuel joined the Avengers (Nokmim) partisan group of...
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