Sir Martin Gilbert CBE, 1936-2015 (1)
From Lady Gilbert, London, 4 February 2015:
It is with an unbearable sadness that I am writing to you today. After thirty-four months of agonizingly slow but steady recovery from an hypoxia brain injury, and thirty hours of a virulent sepsis infection, the final query to Martin’s own personal history was answered last night. The funeral will be at Eretz HaChaim Cemetery in Beit Shemesh, Israel on the 12th. The Shiva will be at our home in London from Sunday evening the 8th. I do not have the timings for the funeral yet but the cemetery should have it. …
