Walter Benedict (Baruch ben Otto) Cahn, 87, of Hamden died May 29. He was the widower of Annabelle Simon and Brenda Lee Danet. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, he was the son of Otto and Frieda (b. Kahn) Cahn, who were killed during the Holocaust. His family home was seized during Kristallnact. In the wake of Germany’s invasion of France in October 1940, the Cahns were expelled, together with a number of thousands of other Rhineland Jews, into what subsequently became Vichy France. They were placed in an internment camp at Gurs, near Oloron in southwest France, and subsequently transferred to another camp at Rivesaltes (Pyrenées-Orientales) near Perpignan. In 1941, Walter and his brother Norbert Simon Cahn (who predeceased him in 2017) were placed in the children’s home of the Éclaireurs Israëlites de France in Moissac. During the period 1943-1945, Walter and his brother lived in hiding places provided by the French resistance. In 1947, the two brothers reunited with relatives in America, and Walter settled in Brooklyn, N.Y. From 1956-1958, he served in the United States Army Medical Corps, stationed at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC. He is survived by his partner Rosalyn Muskovits (nee Bloomfield); his son Claude Cahn and his wife Cosmna Novacovici; his grandchildren, Sarah Kali Cahn and Johannah Shai Cahn.