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Recent Obituaries - Activist

  • Patricia Disney, 77 (2012)

    Patricia Disney

    The Associated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) — Patricia Disney, who was once married to Walt Disney's late nephew Roy E. Disney and was vice chairwoman of Roy's investment company, died Friday after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.She was 77.Patricia Disney died in her Los Angeles home, surrounded by her four children, said family spokesman Clifford Miller.An advocate for higher education,...

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  • Kazimierz Smolen, 91 (1920 - 2012)

    Kazimierz Smolen

    VANESSA GERA, The Associated PressWARSAW, Poland (AP) — Kazimierz Smolen, a 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor — who after World War II became director of the memorial site — died Friday on the 67th anniversary of the camp's liberation.Smolen passed away in a hospital in Oswiecim, the southern Polish town where Nazi Germany operated Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II, said Pawel Sawicki, a...

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  • Robert Lee Carter, 94 (1917 - 2012)

    Robert Lee Carter

    DEEPTI HAJELA, The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Carter, a lawyer who was an integral member of the team led by Thurgood Marshall that turned to the courts to battle segregation, has died. He was 94. Carter, who later spent decades on the federal judiciary, died Tuesday morning at a Manhattan hospital after suffering a stroke last week, said his son, John Carter, who is a judge...

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  • Mirko Tremaglia, 85 (1926 - 2011)

    Mirko Tremaglia

    By FRANCES D'EMILIO, The Associated Press ROME (AP) — Mirko Tremaglia, a right-wing politician who won a decades-long battle for the right of Italian emigres to vote in Italian elections, died on Friday. He was 85. Italian news agencies and Sky TG24 TV said Tremaglia died at home in Bergamo, northern Italy, after a long illness. Tremaglia was a co-founder of the Italian Social Movement...

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  • Hans Marsalek, 97 (2011)

    Hans Marsalek

    The Associated PressVIENNA (AP) — The Mauthausen Memorial Committee says Hans Marsalek, a Nazi resister who helped document the history of the former Nazi concentration camp, has died.The committee says Marsalek died on Friday at age 97.Marsalek was arrested and sent to Mauthausen, in Upper Austria, in 1942 for his opposition to the Nazis and survived there until the Allies liberated the camp...

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