Members of both their families perished in the subsequent genocide.
Another brother, a sister, and most of their children perished nearby.
Some were police officers and firefighters, some were elderly men and women, and some were children probably too young to talk when their parents perished.
All three of their husbands perished when Bosnian Serb forces, commanded by Ratko Mladic, took over the UN-protected area of Srebrenica on 11 July 1995.
Mr. Adler's parents survived the Holocaust, but most of their family perished; his mother was at Auschwitz, his father at a labor camp in Lodz.
Equally superfluous was the lesson to the Jews in the Diaspora, who hardly needed a great catastrophe in which a third of their people perished to be convinced of the world's hostility.
The sorrow inside his house was shared among many residents of this town of about 57,000, 41 miles west of Santo Domingo, where officials estimated at least 15 of their neighbors perished in the crash.
In the days after the Sept. 11 attack, the Fire Department tried to gather its surviving firefighters to record an oral history of the day when more of their colleagues perished than any other.
Proof that teens don't have to be 'troubled' to find themselves in at the deep end, Cruel Summer features a group of teens on holiday a year after one of their number perished in 'questionable' circumstances.
These highly attractive, hard-working siblings are motivated by a personal tragedy: their parents perished in the great influenza epidemic that swept the country just after World War I. Claire Shipley has suffered deep losses too, but hers are of more recent vintage.
Both Arab generals and two thirds of their army perished.
