She wrote about heroic Jewish resisters in her book “Defiance,” which was later made into a film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.
Tag: Deaths (Obituaries)
Italians Pay Tribute to Novelist and Activist Who Spoke Out Till the End
Michela Murgia was a voice for minorities and a lightning rod for political debate. She also garnered respect even from a prime minister whose policies she opposed.
Rodriguez, Singer Whose Career Was Resurrected, Dies at 81
Two albums in the early 1970s went largely unnoticed in the United States, but not overseas. Then came the 2012 documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.”
Henri Konan Bédié, Ivory Coast President Deposed in a Coup, Dies at 89
As a longtime power broker he helped make his West African country an economic dynamo, but in office he fomented ethnic divisions and cracked down on dissent.
Seiichi Morimura, 90, Who Exposed Japanese Wartime Atrocities, Dies
In a widely read book, he detailed gruesome biological experiments on people at a secret Imperial Army site in occupied China before and during World War II.
Ales Pushkin, Dissident Artist in Belarus, Is Dead in Prison at 57
A “holy fool,” in his words, he railed against the repressive Lukashenko government, once with a pile of manure. He died under mysterious circumstances.
Richard Barancik, Last of the World War II Monuments Men, Dies at 98
He played a role in the celebrated Allied operation to preserve European artworks and cultural treasures stolen by the Nazis.
Dermot Doran, Priest Who Rallied Aid for Biafran Airlift, Dies at 88
In 1968, Father Doran, who had been in Nigeria as an educator, became the linchpin of one of the largest civilian humanitarian efforts in history.
Carlos Alberto Montaner, Prominent Critic of Castro’s Cuba, Dies at 80
After fleeing the island in 1961, he became one of the leading voices of opposition against the country’s Communist dictatorship.
Milan Kundera, Author of ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ Dies at 94
The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” he was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.