Holocaust Survivor (96) Dies Two Weeks After Fall Of Greatgrandson In Gaza - On Holocaust Remembrance Day

BD”E: Holocaust Survivor Magda Baratz A”H Niftar Days After Her Great-Grandson Is Killed In Gaza

Holocaust survivor Magda Baratz a”h, was niftar at age 96 just days after learning of the petirah of her beloved great-grandson, Master Sergeant Asaf Cafri Hy”d, who fell in battle while defending Israel in Gaza. Baratz, a survivor of both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, was in Germany as the guest of honor at a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony marking 80 years since the liberation of the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, when the tragic…

Holocaust Survivor (96) Dies Two Weeks After Fall Of Greatgrandson In Gaza - On Holocaust Remembrance Day

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: Holocaust survivor Magda Baratz, 96, died Friday — just days after learning that her great-grandson, Master Sergeant (res.) Asaf Cafri, was killed in combat in Gaza. Baratz was attending a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, which she had survived, when she was informed of his […]

Holocaust survivor dies after great-grandson KIA in Gaza

Magda Baratz, 96, passed away while mourning IDF reservist Asaf Cafri, who was killed by a Hamas sniper in Beit Hanoun.The post Holocaust survivor dies after great-grandson KIA in Gaza appeared first on JNS.org.

My grandfather was a Nazi executioner at Auschwitz — and I had no idea until 7th grade history class

In a Stuttgart classroom in the 1970s, seventh-grader Kai Höss learned something that would change his life. A teacher was reading from a history textbook about the Holocaust when the name “Rudolf Höss” came up. Kai went home and asked his mother if there was any relation. She confirmed that Rudolf was his grandfather —... The post My grandfather was a Nazi executioner at Auschwitz — and I had no idea until 7th grade history class appeared first…