Holocaust Survivor Riva Pancerman Dies at 103

A local Holocaust survivor, Riva Pancerman passed away last Thursday, June 11.

The Northwest Baltimore resident and Chevrei Tzedek congregant — who gave oral histories to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Goucher College’s Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories — was 103.

“I know many in our Chevrei Tzedek Congregation community will dearly miss Rivka Pancerman, who passed away on June 11th, the day after her 103rd birthday,” posted local Jewish storyteller and facilitator Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff on social media. “What a blessing that this beautiful, loving and steady woman lived to age 103.”…

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