Yizkor: The Souls We Lost During Coronavirus

Mrs. Sara Mishulovin, a longtime member of the Los Angeles Chabad community, passed away.

Rabbi Binyomin Wolff, the beloved Chabad Shliach in Hanover, Germany, and father of 8, passed away on Friday night.

Rabbi Yaacov Schwei, the eldest of the 3 members of the Crown Heights Beis Din who escaped the Soviet Union and received personal instructions from the Rebbe, passed away on Friday.

Mr. Joel Yachzel, a longtime member of the Los Angeles Chabad community, passed away on Tuesday, 27 Nissan, 5780.

Mrs. Channa Miriam Tarshish, a beloved mother and grandmother who lived in Chicago and North Miami Beach, Florida, passed away on Monday, 26 Nissan, 5780.

Sholem Rosenblum, a longtime Crown Heights resident, passed away on Monday, 27 Nissan, 5780. Levaya today at 4 pm.

R' Efraim Dov Ber Majeski, a resident of Flatbush and son of a well known Lubavitcher family, passed away on Sunday evening, 26 Nissan, 5780.

R' Aharon Nodel, longtime resident of Kfar Chabad, Israel, passed away on Sunday, 25 Nissan, 5780.

R' Efraim Lehr, father and grandfather of a Chabad family and a member of the Chabad Shul in Aventura, FL, passed away on Pesach.

Former New York City Councilman and Brooklyn judge Noach Dear, a dedicated public servant who was a regular at 770 Eastern Parkway and consulted with the Rebbe on many occasions, passed away on Sunday.

Yehuda Aryeh Kops, a young man from New York, passed away on Sunday, 25 Nissan, 5780.

Rebbetzin Faiga Korenblit, a longtime resident of Flatbush and beloved Rebbetzin of Ohel Moshe Chevra Thilim Lubavitch Shul, passed away on Shabbos.

Mrs. Olga Friedman, a longtime resident of Crown Heights, passed away on the 24th of Nissan, Shabbos Parshas Shemini, 5780.

Rabbi Don Yoel Levy, head of one of the world's largest Kosher certifying agencies who revolutionized the Kashrus industry worldwide, passed away on 22 Nissan, 5780.

Mr. Yuda Backer, a lifetime resident of Crown Heights and a prominent philanthropist, passed away Thursday, 22 Nissan 5780.

R' Gedalya Schmalberg, longtime Crown Heights resident, passed away on Wednesday, Shvii shel Pesach, 21 Nissan, 5780.

Rabbi Chaim Osher Kahanov, a longtime Crown Heights resident and devoted Chosid, passed away on Tuesday, 20 Nissan 5780. Levaya at 3:15 pm.

R' Mendel Drizin, son of a known Mashpia who built the largest building complex in Crown Heights and supported institutions and causes around the neighborhood, passed away on Monday, 19 Nissan, 5780.

R' Zalman Angster, a member of the Chabad community of Baltimore, MD, and recently of Boynton Beach, FL, passed away on Monday, 19 Nissan, 5780.

Mrs. Rochel Altein, one of the first Shluchos who was also a renowned Kallah teacher, passed away on Monday, 19 Nissan, 5780.

Rabbi Yanky Korf, a resident of Crown Heights, passed away on Sunday night, 19 Nissan, 5780.

Israel’s former Chief Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi Doron, who was admitted to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem after contracting COVID-19, passed away on Sunday evening.

R' Menachem Nachum Bronstein, a longtime Crown Heights resident who was the Shamash at Lefferts Shul, passed away on Sunday.

Mrs. Rochel Yehudis Charytan, a longtime devoted Shlucha to Winnipeg, Canada, passed away on the first day of Pesach after a lengthy illness.

R' Mordechai Kopman, a young husband and father from Buffalo, New York, passed away on Sunday, 18 Nissan, 5780.

Mr. Bernard Ratner, who bravely fought in WWII and was a prominent businessman and philanthropist in Minneapolis, MN, and patriarch of a proud Jewish family, passed away.

Rabbi Shmuel Chefer, head of Beit Rivkah College in Kfar Chabad Beis who was one of the leading Chabad officials in Israel and heroically refused to battle against fellow Jews during the founding of Israel, passed away on Shabbos, 17 Nissan 5780.

Shloimy Freundlich, an active member of Chevra Ahavas Yisroel Shul who did outreach for young people and singles in the neighborhood, passed away on the first night of Pesach.

Mrs. Esther Stern, longtime Crown Heights resident and beloved mother and grandmother, passed away on Shabbos, 17 Nissan, 5780.

R' Aharele Brook, a Lubavitch resident of Lakewood, NJ, passed away on Wednesday, 14 Nissan, 5780.

Rabbi Sholom Eidelman, the longtime devoted Head Shliach of Casablanca, Morocco, passed away on 16 Nissan, 5780.

Mr. Chaim Reisner of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, founder of asknoah.org and who created furniture for the Rebbe including tables which were used to distribute dollars, passed away.

Rabbi Leibel Singer, a Crown Heights resident, passed away on Wednesday, 14 Nissan, 5780.

Mr. Yitzchok Kosofsky, a longtime resident of Chicago who was instrumental in bringing Cholov Yisroel and the Rebbe's farbrengen hookups to the city, passed away.

Chabad mourns: Rabbi Leibel Groner, one of the most prominent figures of Lubavitch of the last generation who served as a secretary of the Rebbe for over 40 years and a Talmid Chacham in his own right, passed away. Update: Levaya will pass 770 at 9:30 am and will go through Crown Heights.

The Novominsker Rebbe R’ Yaakov Perlow, head of Agudath Yisrael of America and a staunch supporter of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin’s plight, passed away on Tuesday.

Shloimy Jacobson, a young man from Crown Heights, passed away on Monday, 12 Nissan, 5780.

Mrs. Mazal Flinkenstein, a longtime resident of Brighton Beach, Brooklyn active in the Oceanview Chabad Jewish Center, passed away on Monday, Yud Beis Nissan.

R’ Benzion Eliezer Hackner, a community activist and Gabbai of the Stamford Hill Shul in London, passed away.

Dr. Itshak Bokobza, a vibrant chossid and family physician who cared for both the physical and spiritual health of his patients, passed away in Creteil, a suburb of Paris, on Shabbos.

Mrs. Chaya Motchkin, a Crown Heights resident who risked her life during Communist Russia to keep Shabbos and the widow of R’ Chaim Yosef Motchkin OBM, passed away on Shabbos.

R' Yosef Baruch Jacobowitz, a businessman and resident of Flatbush whose parents taught at Chabad in Kiryat Gat in Israel, passed away on Shabbos.

Mrs. Goldie Shifrin, a longtime Crown Heights resident who was active in the Chevra Kadisha, passed away on Motzei Shabbos.

Rabbi Shalom Gurewicz, who worked as a rabbinical coordinator for the Kof-K Kosher supervision and brought many people closer to Yiddishkeit with his open home in Chicago, passed away on Shabbos.

Mrs. Rivkah Karp, matriarch of a large Lubavitch family who lived in Montreal and later Crown Heights, passed away on Motzei Shabbos.

Sidney Russ, longtime Crown Heights resident who brought joy to all by participating in many community simchas, passed away.

Rabbi Tzvi Abba Lerman, who as a newlywed was sent by the Rebbe on a chinuch Shlichus and spent his life educating children in Pittsburgh, New Jersey and Crown Heights, passed away.

Rabbi Mikhael Cohen, Director of CCF New York who was an institution on his own for French-speaking Jews living and visiting New York, passed away on Friday. Watch the Levaya live at 12 pm.

Rabbi Velvel Greenwald, a dedicated teacher at Talmud Torah Toras Emes in Jerusalem who received a special bracha from the Rebbe Rayatz, passed away after being infected by coronavirus.

R’ Avraham Aaron Rubashkin, a legend in the kosher world who built the largest kosher meat empire in the United States from a butcher shop in Boro Park and was the patriarch of a large Chabad family, passed away. Levaya: Friday morning.

Rabbi Asher Heber, a beloved educator and longtime Crown Heights resident who merited to have the Rebbe and Rebbetzin as Kvaterin at his Bris, passed away.

R' Avraham Chayo, patriarch of a large Lubavitch family in Buenos Aires, Argentina, passed away on Wednesday, 7 Nissan, 5780.

Avremy Zakon, a longtime resident of Crown Heights, passed away Wednesday, 7 Nissan, after being infected with coronavirus.

Rabbi Yisroel Friedman, the renowned Rosh Yeshiva of Oholei Torah Yeshiva in Crown Heights, passed away on Wednesday, 7 Nissan, 5780.

R' Mottel Chein, a Mashpia in Crown Heights, gabbai at 770 Eastern Parkway and activist with Lubavitch Youth Organization in New York who took an active role in communal life in Crown Heights, passed away.

Rabbi Chaim Shmuel Menachem Mendel Liberow, patriarch of a large Chabad family, passed away on Tuesday, 6 Nissan, 5780.

R' Zelig Gottlieb, a long-time resident of Crown Heights who was known as a devoted Chosid who was dedicated to the Rebbe's Mivtzoim, passed away.

R' Abba Bresinger, a beloved father and grandfather from Montreal, Canada, passed away on Monday, 5 Nissan, 5780.

Rabbi Gedalia Korf, longtime Crown Heights resident who was one of the founders of the Ezras Achim organization passed away on Monday, 5 Nissan, 5780.

Rabbi Gershon Sabol, director of the Yedei Chesed Organization and resident of Monsey, NY, passed away on Sunday, 4 Nissan, 5780.

R' Herschel Scheiner, a long-time resident of Crown Heights who fundraiser for orphanages in the former Soviet Union and helped feed families and individuals in need as part of his wife's Yomtov Fund, passed away.

Mrs. Dusye Rivkin, matriarch of a Chabad family and wife of Rabbi Mordechai Hakohen Rivkin obm, passed away.

Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Dovid Konikov, a dedicated teacher in Crown Heights who merited to be a baal koreh for the Rebbe, passed away on Friday after being infected by coronavirus.

Rabbi Mordechai Gurary, one of the prominent rabbonim in Crown Heights who led the Chevra Shas Shul, passed away on Shabbos, 3 Nissan, 5780.

R’ Ben Tzion Livyan, a long time resident of Raanana, Israel, passed away on Friday, Beis Nissan, 5780.

R' Yosef Yitzchok Grossman, a Lubavitcher resident of Boro Park, Brooklyn, passed away on Friday, 2 Nissan, 5780.

Mrs. Guta Schapiro, who had self-sacrifice in the Soviet era like her famed father R' Peretz Mochkin and raised a large Chabad family in Cleveland and Crown Heights, passed away on Friday, Beis Nisan.

Tragedy: Rabbi Menachem Nissim, a long-time resident of Crown Heights and a humble talmid chacham, passed away on Friday after being infected with coronavirus. Levaya will take place Friday.

Rabbi Avraham “Romi” Cohn, a survivor of the Holocaust who bravely saved lives as a young partisan who became a developer in Staten Island and Chief Mohel of the F.R.E.E. Brit Milah Program, passed away from Covid-19 complications.

Siman and Mary Bronshtyn, an elderly couple who lived in Crown Heights for many years, passed away after they both contracted coronavirus.

Mrs. Henya Lasky of Crown Heights, who survived the Holocaust in hiding, and mother of Mrs. Cipi Junik, passed away. Updated: Levaya and Shiva information.

Rabbi Mordechai Assouline, a melamed and Gabbai of Chabad of Sarcelles, France passed away on Wednesday after being infected with coronavirus.

Mr. Chaim Hein, long-time resident and pillar of the Chabad community of Morristown, NJ, passed away.

Avraham Sakoun, a member of the Chabad community in Paris, passed away on Monday.

Mr. Yaakov Bam, a beloved husband and father from Crown Heights, passed away on Monday night, 28 Adar 5780.

Rabbi Yehuda Yaakov Refson, a Senior Chabad Shliach and prominent Dayan in Leeds, England, passed away Sunday night, after contracting coronavirus.

Rabbi Masoud Toubul, principal of Beis Chana School in Paris, passed away Motzei Shabbos after being infected with coronavirus.

Susan Gordon of S. Rosa, CA and mother of Mrs. Chanah Forster of Crown Heights, passed away. Shiva tomorrow on Zoom Meeting.

Hershy Zellermaier, a longtime Crown Heights resident and owner of the candy store on Kingston Avenue, passed away on Thursday. Levaya today at 5:00 pm.

Mrs. Esther Fasten, mother of Mrs. Rivkah Glick of Crown Heights, passed away.

Mrs. Thelma Levy, wife of OK Kosher's longtime director Rabbi Berel Levy obm, who accompanied her husband on trips behind the iron curtain at the behest of the Rebbe, passed away. Update: Levaya on Thursday.

Mrs. Fradel Kahler of London, England, mother of Mrs. Sheina Winsbacher of Monsey, NY passed away. Shiva in Monsey on Tuesday and Wednesday.