Schlesinger

2Apr

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France, Medics, Noteworthy, Profiles

Dora Werzberg, nurse & social worker

Dora Werzberg Amelan, a French nurse and social worker, succumbed to Covid-19 on 1 April 2020. In 1942, she rescued Jewish children through Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE). She worked in the Camp de Rivesaltes and the Gurs internment camp, and took care of children who had survived the Nazi concentration camps. She died due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Werzberg was born in Strasbourg, the daughter of Karl Werzberg and Gisèla Blum, who were Jewish emigrants from Poland. The family moved to Antwerp when Werzberg was ten, and stayed until the death of her mother and the invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany. She then joined a Zionist youth movement. Werzberg had two sisters, Manda, who died of sepsis in 1942, and Simone Be...

Adam Schlesinger, singer & songwriter

Adam Lyons Schlesinger ‑ an American singer-songwriter, record producer, bassist, guitarist, keyboardist, and drummer – passed away after suffering from Covid-19 on April 1, 2020. He won three Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, and the ASCAP Pop Music Award, and was nominated for Academy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards. He was a founding member of the bands Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and Tinted Windows, and was a key songwriting contributor and producer for Brooklyn-based synth-pop duo Fever High. Schlesinger grew up in Manhattan and Montclair, New Jersey. He died in the United States due to complications brought on by COVID-19. Schlesinger was born in New York City, the son of Barbara "Bobbi" (Bernthal), a publicist, and Stephen Schlesinger. He grew up in Manhattan ...

Piero Schlesinger, jurist

Piero Schlesinger Knight Grand Cross OMRI (19 May 1930 – 14 March 2020) was an Italian jurist, banker, lawyer and academic who served as president of the Banca Popolare di Milano from 1971 to 1993. Piero Schlesinger graduated in jurisprudence in Turin. In 1956 he began his academic career at the University of Urbino and, two years later, personally chosen by its dean and founder Father Agostino Gemelli, moved to the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan, where he held the chair of private law for over three decades. Manuale di diritto privato, the academic textbook of private law he co-authored with Andrea Torrente, is considered one of the most studied and influential of its kind in Italy. Among his pupils were lawyers Giuseppe Lombardi...