Holocaust survivor Rev Joseph Matzner lights a memorial candle during a Holocaust Day of Remembrance ceremony, 6 May 2024, at Westpark Cemetery. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen
Of the 6 million who had perished in the Holocaust, 1.5 million had been children; their only crime being that they were Jews, she said. Lazarus was born in a ghetto, when her pregnant mother refused to abort her at six months and instead smuggled her in with her.Born blond and blue-eyed, her father was able to place her with a Lithuanian family, managing to reunite with her after the war where he had been in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Holocaust survivor Irene Fainman lights a memorial candle during a Holocaust Day of Remembrance ceremony, 6 May 2024, at Westpark Cemetery. Picture: Michel Bega/The Citizen Paul Herskovits, who was slipped off an extermination train at the age of 21 years old, lit the fifth candle. His parents were sent to the death camp and he was hidden in the Budapest Ghetto. Rabbi Joseph Matzner lit the final candle. He was forced to hide, first in the forests of Vichy, France, and then for three years in a convent and then with a Catholic family, before being reunited with his family.
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