Solomon Perel, a German Jew who outwitted the Nazis by posing as a member of the Hitler Youth throughout World Battle II, a unprecedented story of survival that was dramatized within the 1990 movie “Europa Europa,” died Feb. 2 at his house in Givatayim, close to Tel Aviv. He was …

Thomas L. Hughes, a prominent voice in U.S. foreign policy for decades, first as a high-ranking official at the State Department in the 1960s, where he forcefully if futilely argued against the escalation of the Vietnam War, and later as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, died Jan. …

Adolfo Kaminsky, a long-unheralded member of the French resistance who clandestinely inked and stamped false identity cards, baptismal certificates, ration books and other documents that meant the difference between life and death for thousands of Jews during World War II, died Jan. 9 at his home in Paris. He was …