{"id":22260,"date":"2016-03-28T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/2-new-york-siblings-are-among-the-dead-in-brussels-attacks\/"},"modified":"2016-03-28T08:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:02:23","slug":"2-new-york-siblings-are-among-the-dead-in-brussels-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/2-new-york-siblings-are-among-the-dead-in-brussels-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"2 New York siblings are among the dead in Brussels attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014<\/strong> Two New York City siblings are among the dead in the attacks in Brussels, their family said Friday.<\/p>\n

Alexander and Sascha Pinczowski, Dutch nationals who lived in the U.S., were headed home to the states when a bomb exploded at the airport Tuesday. Alexander, 29, was on the phone with his mother in Holland when the line went dead, said James Cain, whose daughter Cameron was engaged to Alexander.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe received confirmation this morning from Belgian authorities and the Dutch embassy of the positive identification of the remains of Alexander and Sascha from the terrorist bombing at the Brussels Airport,\u201d Cain said on behalf of the Pinczowski family. \u201cWe are grateful to have closure on this tragic situation, and are thankful for the thoughts and prayers from all. The family is in the process of making arrangements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander Pinczowski had traveled to Holland to work on a craft-related business that he and Cameron were going to start together, Cain said.<\/p>\n

The couple met six years ago while taking summer courses in Durham, North Carolina. They hadn\u2019t set a wedding date but had planned to marry within the year, Cain said.<\/p>\n

He called Alexander \u201cintimidatingly smart, a brilliant young man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sascha Pinczowski, 26, was a 2015 graduate of Marymount Manhattan College in New York with a degree in business. She spent last summer as an intern at a catering company, Shiraz Events.<\/p>\n

Shiraz Events President Shai Tertner called her \u201ca bright, hardworking young woman, with a great career ahead of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both siblings had hoped to obtain U.S. citizenship one day, said Cain, a retired ambassador to Denmark.<\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that New York had lost \u201ctwo of our own\u201d in the attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo young siblings from our city were taken from us far too soon, and our hearts break for the family and friends of Sascha and Alexander,\u201d de Blasio said in a statement. \u201cNew York City has shown time and again that we will not succumb to the threat of terrorism, and we will not live in fear. Today we vow to continue standing up for freedom and democracy in honor of those we have lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gov. Andrew Cuomo also extended his sympathies to the family.<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir lives were cut short by cowards who have chosen extremism and hate instead of peace and unity. On behalf of all New Yorkers, I extend our deepest prayers and condolences to the Pinczowski family, as well as all those who lost loved ones in Tuesday\u2019s heartbreaking attacks,\u201d Cuomo said.<\/p>\n

The bombings in Brussels at the airport and in the subway killed 31 people and injured nearly 300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2014 Two New York City siblings are among the dead in the attacks in Brussels, their family said Friday. Alexander and Sascha Pinczowski, Dutch nationals who lived in the U.S., were headed home to the states when a bomb exploded at the airport Tuesday. Alexander, 29, was on the phone with his mother […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22260"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}