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Gulshan Ewing, iconic editor
India, Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Gulshan Ewing, iconic editor

Gulshan Ewing's daughter says Gregory Peck was her favourite Hollywood star- BBC & Anjali Gulshan Ewing, a pioneering Indian journalist who mingled with some of the world's most famous celebrities, died on April 18, 2020, after suffering from Covid-19 at a home for the elderly in London. Gulshan Ewing was 92 when she died in residential care in Richmond, BBC quoted her daughter Anjali Ewing as saying. "I was right by her side when she stopped breathing." Despite her age, her mother had no pre-existing conditions, she says. Ewing, who edited two of India's most popular publications - women's magazine Eve's Weekly and film magazine Star & Style - from 1966 to 1989 was a celebrated editor, and a celebrity in her own right. In his book India: A million mutinies now, Nob...
Henri Kichka, holocaust survivor
Belgium, Noteworthy, Profiles

Henri Kichka, holocaust survivor

Henri Kichka a Belgian writer and Holocaust survivor who was one of the leading figures in Holocaust education in Belgium died on 25 April 2020 at the age of 94 in Brussels as a result of COVID-19. Kichka was the only member of his family to have survived the deportation of Belgian Jews to camps in Central and Eastern Europe. He began speaking on the importance of the memory of those who perished at the hands of the Nazis in the 1980s and spoke widely on his experiences to school audience. In 2005, published his autobiography, Une adolescence perdue dans la nuit des camps, prefaced by Serge Klarsfeld. He is the father of cartoonist Michel Kichka. Henri Kichka was born in Brussels, Belgium on 14 April 1926 into a Jewish family which had emigrated from Poland. His father, Josek ...