This combination of pictures shows Holocaust survivors Menahem Haberman, Danny Chanoch, Dov Landau and Szmul Icek during a photo session. — AFP pic
Since their liberation three quarters of a century ago, their skin has wrinkled with the march of time and the numbers tattooed on their left arms have faded.These survivors are the last witnesses to traumatic events which now in the 21st century are often called into question by anti-Semitic revisionists.
“They left, but they were never seen again, never. We don’t know what happened to them,” said Sonia on behalf of her husband, who tensed up as she began to talk.After living together in Belgium for years, the couple now inhabits an apartment in Jerusalem where old family portraits hang in their living room.
But Icek was separated from his dad by a Nazi. “He cried, he wanted to be with his father. But the German said: ‘no, you over there’.” Their paths never crossed at the extermination camp, nor in Jerusalem where Haberman now lives in a retirement home. “There was a guy there who said in Yiddish: ‘Those who don’t have the strength to work, will end up in the chimney.’The experiences of the last remaining survivors, who were children when they were sent to the death camps, remain seared into their minds.“It’s deeply engrained in me. Seventy-five years later, we still live with that, we don’t forget... we cannot forget,” said Haberman.Six million Jews were killed by Nazi Germany. And of more than 1.
“When I was little, my mother bought me lots of dolls,” said Zaken, recalling her childhood in Greece with her parents and six siblings. As well as fearing the gas chamber, Zaken also remembers the starvation which stalked the death camp and reduced prisoners to walking skeletons. Oren’s mother was killed at Auschwitz and he has no photo of her, but tries to include her image in the paintings he does at home.He was forced onto the “Death March” when, as the Soviets advanced, the Nazis made prisoners from extermination camps walk in deep winter towards Germany and Austria.
In the city of Bologna he was reunited with his brother, Uri, and a photo of the two boys taken by an Italian man hangs in his home.
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