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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Feb 23, 2014
Alice Herz-Sommer
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/celebrities/family-alice-herz-sommer-believed-worlds-oldest-holocaust-survivor-dies-at-age-110/2014/02/23/033c944c-9cbd-11e3-8112-52fdf646027b_story.html
Apologies for that link, she's not on the BBC News yet.
A unique pick for coelacanth.
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coelacanth Posted Feb 24, 2014
It's on the BBC now. A personal heroine of mine.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26318383 news report
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26319656 film clip
A few years ago I met two other elderly survivors from Theresienstadt ghetto camp ("Hitler's 'gift' to the Jews"). These men had been children in the camp, one was also a musician, one remembered watching music. As adults they came together for a performance of the opera Brundibar, which had been originally performed by the children of Theresienstadt.
The very youngest from the camp, tiny babies when they were rescued, are well known to psychology students as the children from Bulldogs Bank, who were studied by Anna Freud. One of those children wrote about his experiences on the BBC WW2 site, although I don't believe he ever posted on h2g2. His name was Jona Speigel, later known as Jackie Young.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/28/a1955928.shtml
http://www.jewishgen.org/forgottencamps/witnesses/TheresEng.html 
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coelacanth Posted Feb 24, 2014
GB's link in #121 is a bit brief, there's more from the Washington Post here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/oldest-known-holocaust-survivor-dies-at-110/2014/02/23/d7dc3e78-9cbd-11e3-8112-52fdf646027b_story.html?tid=pm_entertainment_pop
And the short film about Alice's life, The Lady in Number 6, is nominated for an Oscar this coming weekend.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/23/alice-herz-sommer-oldest-known-holocaust-survivor-dies/print
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2924484/
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Apr 7, 2014
Today we mourn the passing of a Deathlist staple, Mickey Rooney http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26917746
logicus tracticus philosophicus, Magwitch and Orcus share the points.
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Apr 30, 2014
Very sad to hear this news
I have to say I agree with that 
Pastey
hopefully we will be treated to some of his marvellous films
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Demon Drawer Posted May 26, 2014
Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski
As predicted by Beatrice, spiller and Demon Drawer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-27567079
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 27, 2014
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted May 28, 2014
Just out of curiosity, did anyone have Maya Angelou on their list? She just died, age 86.
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted May 28, 2014
No, but King Bomba did in 2009.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jun 13, 2014
Ruby Dee died on Wednesday. She as 91.
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Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor Posted Jun 14, 2014
Carla Laemmle
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2657584/Phantom-Of-The-Opera-star-Carla-Laemmle-104-dies-Los-Angeles-home.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Another unique pick for coelacanth.
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coelacanth Posted Jun 14, 2014
She was beautiful, wasn't she. And that makes the combined age of my last two picks 214!
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jun 14, 2014
Coelacanth, your record is awesome! 
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hygienicdispenser Posted Jun 14, 2014
Her uncle, film producer Carl Laemmle, was renowned for giving jobs to his relatives, leading Ogden Nash to write the short poem:
Carl Laemmle
Has a very large faemmle.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jun 14, 2014
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swl Posted Jun 25, 2014
Eli Wallach - 98
Points for plenty.
I had no idea the role he played in the Godfather - a million miles removed from the one in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
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- 128: Demon Drawer (May 26, 2014)
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