Forward Staff With JTA

Holocaust Survivor Dies in Catskills Flooding Spawned by Irene

A Brooklyn woman was killed when floodwaters spawned by Hurricane Irene washed away a motel in the Catskills. Rozalia Gluck, 82, was trapped in the Valkyrian Motel in Fleischmann’s, New York, approximately 140 miles north of New York City, when the motel was uprooted and swept away by torrential water, JTA reported. On-lookers could hear…