Killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He refused to leave a wheelchair bound co-worker. While attempting to help the man down the stairs, the towers collapsed.
His sister was Lita Lasar, who spoke on Democracy Now! about Zelmanowitz.
Killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. He refused to leave a wheelchair bound co-worker. While attempting to help the man down the stairs, the towers collapsed.
His sister was Lita Lasar, who spoke on Democracy Now! about Zelmanowitz.
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Here lies Avraham Yosef, son of Shlomo Zalman Zelmanowitz, who perished in the sanctification of God's name, and who sanctified the name of heaven in his life and in his death, on 23 Elul 5761, and was brought to burial on 27 Av 5762.
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