This photo provided by granddaughter Angela Norton shows Pearl Harbor survivor Richard C. "Dick" Higgins in Bend, Ore., on his 102nd birthday on July 24, 2023. Higgins, one of the few remaining survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died on March 19, 2024, at his home in ...
Caroline was presumably devastated to lose her father, as she appeared to have grown close to him after her mother's death. Yet what had to make things more difficult for her was that her husband, Ernst, fell into a coma the day before Rainier died. He had been hospitalized for acute p...
Tom Lantos, only Holocaust survivor in US Congress, has died after bout with cancerERICA WERNER
Byline: IAN SPARKS in ParisTHE last male survivor of the Titanic has died in France aged 92.French professor Michel Navratil was almost four years old when he was bundled into a lifeboat after the doomed liner struck an iceberg in the northern Atlantic ocean on April 15, 1912.His death ...
I don’t know that I’ve ever seen anyone take so much pride in their work. It was actually quite touching. I told him that I hope he knows his efforts make a big difference and that he made my day. This man was literally beaming. As we said our goodbyes and I headed out onto ...
The case remained in the courts for more than another decade as Oberlander fought the various revocation decisions. He died in Waterloo, Ont. in 2021 at the age of 97, still a Canadian citizen. Bocknek said she has no confidence that Canada is properly checking on the his...
Even if they're not horror movies, films like The Woodsman, X-Men: First Class, and Cop Car all reveal the most menacing of villains (playing a pedophile, Nazi, and dirty-as-hell cop respectively, for anyone keeping count). Speaking to us in July to promote They/Them, he said: It...
I could have gone to Førge’s. I could have gone to my landmate’s place where I saw evidence of a toasty fire. But some kind of—this will put hair on my chest, I’m a survivor, don’t be a wimp—mentality kicked in. Instead, I layered the bed, and I layered myself, th...
By Jan. 30, 9,800 people had been infected and213 diedaround the world; the WHO declared the 2019-nCoV outbreak a“Public Health Emergency of International Concern.”The next day, the administration of President Donald Trumpsuspended entryinto the United States for anyone who had traveled to ...
There’s a phrase that has been running though my mind lately:count your blessings. I’ve been feeling as if I turned a corner a while back; I no longer seem to feel like a delicate little flower, or a victim of something. Nor, really, do I feel like a “survivor” of anything,...