Israel's oldest Holocaust survivor dies at at 107 on Rosh Hashanah
Born in Poland in 1919, Widawski was imprisoned with his family in the Lodz Ghetto following the Nazi invasion. He was later deported to Auschwitz, where he lost his parents and most of his siblings.
Yehuda Aharon Widawski, the oldest Holocaust survivor in Israel, passed away at the age of 107 on Rosh Hashanah. Widawski endured the brutal Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau, losing his parents and most siblings. Alongside his brother, he survived Josef Mengele's selection and was liberated by the Red Army in 1945. After the war, Widawski dedicated decades to restoring Jewish cemeteries in Poland, lightening a torch at Yad Vashem in 2012 and becoming a prominent witness and role model in the Sochatchov and Modzitz Hasidic communities.
President Isaac Herzog expressed his condolences, noting Widawski's life as a testament to the victory of life, memory, and revival.
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