Tag: Survivor

A special flight carrying nine elderly Holocaust survivors along with 12 wounded people touched down at Ben Gurion Airport as Israel commenced with events for Yom HaShoah.

Key is often asked why he didn't speak any German, considering his Austrian roots, and his response is: “The simple answer is my mother refused to teach me. She did not want to reflect on her history.”

"At any minute the guard could shoot you for not liking the way you looked at him," Peck recalled. "They would shoot you for nothing."

The last Polish Jew who managed to survive the Sobibor Nazi death camp has passed away at the age of 90.

“Elie Wiesel was the collective moral compass of the Jewish people,” said Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky.

The collection belonged to Eve Newgas, née Blumka, whose family was among the most prestigious art and antique dealers in Vienna.