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Emily Langer

Washington, D.C.

Obituary Writer at The Washington Post

Obituary writer for @washingtonpost. Follow our stories here and with @postobits.

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  • Eve Kugler, a young refugee during the Holocaust, dies at 94

    1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Emily Langer

    Eve Kugler, a young refugee during the Holocaust, dies at 94 (washingtonpost.com) Eve Kugler, a young refugee during the Holocaust, dies at 94 By Emily Langer 2025050705101200 Ten-year-old Eve Kugler was not supposed to be on the ship that spirited her away from Nazi Europe and docked in New York City late in the summer of 1941.

  • Eve Kugler, child survivor of the Holocaust, dies at 94

    1 week ago | flipboard.com | Emily Langer

    9 hours agoIsraeli forces launch second strike on Gaza school sheltering displaced people-GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE - MAY 6, 2025: Israeli forces conducted a second attack on the Abu Humaysa School sheltering displaced Palestinians in the central Gaza Strip. Israeli fighter jets previously struck the school in the Bureij refugee camp, killing 17 people and injuring others.

  • Warren I. Cohen, leading scholar of U.S.-China relations, dies at 90

    1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Emily Langer

    Warren I. Cohen, leading scholar of U.S.-China relations, dies at 90 (washingtonpost.com) Warren I. Cohen, leading scholar of U.S.-China relations, dies at 90 By Emily Langer 2025050303053300 Warren I. Cohen, a preeminent scholar of U.S. diplomatic history who illuminated in erudite yet accessible works the complex, evolving American relationship with China and the rest of Asia, died April 30 at a hospital in Washington. He was 90.

  • Former Rep. Bob Filner, San Diego mayor embroiled in scandal, dies at 82

    1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Emily Langer

    Former Rep. Bob Filner, San Diego mayor embroiled in scandal, dies at 82 (washingtonpost.com) Former Rep.

  • Walter Frankenstein, who hid in Berlin during Holocaust, dies at 100

    2 weeks ago | washingtonpost.com | Emily Langer

    Walter Frankenstein, who hid in Berlin during Holocaust, dies at 100 (washingtonpost.com) Walter Frankenstein, who hid in Berlin during Holocaust, dies at 100 By Emily Langer 2025042605141100 For years, Walter Frankenstein, a German Jew living in Berlin, watched as the city's once thriving Jewish population disappeared. Tens of thousands of Jewish Berliners emigrated in the 1930s amid the antisemitic persecution that augured the Holocaust.

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Emily Langer
Emily Langer @EmilyLangerWP
3 Nov 22

Hannah Pick-Goslar, one of Anne Frank's closest friends and one of the last people to see her alive at Bergen-Belsen, has died at 93. Her story: https://t.co/7qFDZ14RWZ

Emily Langer
Emily Langer @EmilyLangerWP
28 Sep 22

Bill Plante has died at 84; he became a fixture of American television sets as a globe-trotting CBS News correspondent, covering the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, four U.S. presidents and more than half a century of national and world affairs. https://t.co/vZKgIEJmGs

Emily Langer
Emily Langer @EmilyLangerWP
10 Aug 22

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