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The monument memorializes 57 members of the Berkovich-Kohut family who died. Only six others in the family survived.

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Counting the Bay Areas lost lives during the coronavirus pandemic Chronicle staff FacebookTwitterEmail Todd Trumbull COVID-19 has claimed more than 2.6 million lives worldwide since the start of the pandemic with more than 5,500 of those deaths being Bay Area residents. The first Bay Area virus-related death was reported March 9, 2020, more than a month after California’s first reported case. A later autopsy, however, linked the death of a Santa Clara County resident on Feb. 6 to the virus, w...

Holocaust survivor Berta Berkovich Kohút dies in San Rafael at 99 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Berta Berkovich was the last among 40 young Jewish women who survived Auschwitz by sewing cocktail dresses, ball gowns and fancy fashions for the wives of Nazi officers.Tom Areton 2019Show MoreShow Less 2of2 In the fall of 2019, a British historian tracked down 98-year-old Berta Berkovich Kohút at her home in San Rafael to record her World War II story. The tale took three days to tell. Kohút was the ...