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The horrors inflicted by the Nazis on millions of innocent people can sometimes feel like they belong to another lifetime.
But the people who survived them are still among us — carrying memories that must never be forgotten.
Now, another remarkable voice from that generation has fallen silent.
The final transport
Yehuda Aharon Widawski, one of Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivors, has died at the age of 107. He survived Auschwitz and Nazi forced labor, lost much of his family during the Holocaust, and spent the decades that followed doing something profoundly meaningful: preserving the memory of the Jewish communities the Nazis had tried to destroy.
His life was, in many ways, a testament to survival.