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. The Shiva times will be through our shul website: highgateshul.com. Your concern and kind words, visits and friendship, prayers and love have sustained us particularly during the last nearly three years. Baruch Dayen Emet – Blessed is the True Judge.…