Ex-Brandeis Chief, Wife Identified as Cairo Fire Victims
Medical records confirmed today that a former president of Brandeis Univesity and his wife were among four Americans killed in last week’s fire at a luxury hotel.
Seventeen people were killed Thursday in the Heliopolis Sheraton fire, which started in a garden tent restaurant.
Among the victims were Marver Bernstein, 71, a former president of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. and his wife, Sheva Rosenthal.
A spokeswoman at the U.S. Embassy said the couple’s dental and medical documents arrived today, providing positive identification.
Bernstein was dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University before becoming president of Brandeis in 1972. In 1983 he joined Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and retired last year.
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