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Daily Archives: 6 July 2015

Dr. Rachel Margolis Dies in Rehovot; Didn’t Get to See Her Native Vilna One Last Time

Posted on 6 July 2015 by Defending History

רחל מאַרגאָליס (מַרְגָלִית) ז″ל

Rachel Margolis

Vilna, 28 October 1921 — Rehovot, 6 July 2015

About Rachel Margolis: Shimon Alperovich, Algirdas Brazauskas, Gordon Brown, Abraham Foxman, Steinar Gil, Martin Gilbert, Chen Ivri Apter, Dovid Katz (Y), Francois Laumonier, NCSJ, Geoff Vasil. UK House of Lords, 5 US Congressmen, 9 Western ambassadors in Vilnius.

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Posted in A 21st Century Campaign Against Lithuanian Holocaust Survivors?, Dr. Rokhl (Rachel) Margolis (1921-2015), Lithuania, Litvak Affairs, News & Views, Obituaries, Politics of Memory, Yiddish Affairs | Tagged anti-Nazi resistance, Dr. Rachel Margolis, Jewish partisans in Lithuania, Prosecutor General of Lithuania, Sakowicz's Ponary Diary | Comments Off on Dr. Rachel Margolis Dies in Rehovot; Didn’t Get to See Her Native Vilna One Last Time

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