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Bertha Shelkan, 85; secretary whose '47 marriage was news
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A funeral service will be held today for Bertha (Kerson) Shelkan
of Newton, the wife of cantor Gregor Shelkan of Congregation Mishkan
Tefila of Newton and the first American to marry a displaced person
following World War II.
She died of respiratory arrest Tuesday in Beth Israel Hospital in
Boston at age 85.
Mrs. Shelkan, who was known as "Birdie," was born in New Haven,
Conn. She worked in the Truman White House before joining the Allied
Control Authority in Berlin following ...
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Veterans of World War II find themselves richly, newly celebrated.
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COSMO SORABELLA, WORLD WAR II VET
The Boston Globe
; NATICK - Cosmo Dominic Sorabella, 76, of Natick, a US Army veteran of World War II, died June 27 at the Leo P. LaChance Nursing Home in Gardner. Born in Somerville, Mr. Sorabella was the son of the late John and Elizabeth (Steffanelli) Sorabella and lived in Natick for 37 years. Prior to his
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MONUMENT TO CONVEY WORLD WAR II'S ESSENCE.(NEWS)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
; Byline: Janny Scott The New York Times The idea for the $100 million World War II memorial to be built on the Mall in Washington, between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, first surfaced in 1987 in Jerusalem Township, Ohio, at an annual county fish fry. Marcy Kaptur, then a
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