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Manfred Waserman died Friday, March 9, 2001 at his home in Albuquerque, NM, of cancer. He is survived by his wife, Barbara, his daughter, Rabbi Reena Judd, her husband, James Judd, and their daughters, Lilly Tova, Emma Michal, and Miriyam Eleanor, all of Hamden, CT, a brother, Arno Waserman, of Baltimore, MD, and Mrs. Waserman's children, Cathy Paine, and her husband, Julyen Norman, of Baltimore, and Jeremy Paine and his wife, Jane, of Rockford, IL. Dr. Waserman was born March 21, 1933, in the Free State of Danzig (nowGdansk, Poland) and came to the United States in December, 1938, where he grew up in Baltimore, MD. He earned BA and MA degrees from the University of Maryland and MS and Ph.D degrees from the Catholic University of America. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1953-55. From 1965-85 he was curator and historian at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, MD. From 1985-1994 he lived is Israel, where he taught at the University of Haifa, became the first curator of the Albert Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was historian of the Hadassah Medical Organization in Jerusalem. He is the author of publications in his professional field, the history of medicine and public health. In 1994 Dr. Waserman and his wife moved to Albuquerque. He was on the board of Congregation Bnai Israel. Burial took place Tuesday, March 13, at Fairview Cemetery in Albuquerque. The family welcomes donations to the Nature Conservancy or to the Animal Humane Association of New Mexico. Arrangements by Aspen Funeral Alternatives, 1935 Juan Tabo NE (323-9000).
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