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2019-08-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Holocaust survivor celebrates 104th birthday surrounded by 400 descendants

[NYPOST] This is the picture of triumph over evil.
The best revenge is success.
A Holocaust survivor celebrated her 104th birthday last week at the Western Wall in Jerusalem ‐ and for the occasion posed for a photo surrounded by about 400 of her descendants, including her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Centenarian Shoshana Ovitz survived the Auschwitz concentration camp 74 years ago, according to Israeli outlets.

In the camp, she watched as her mother was ripped from her and handed to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, who performed deadly experiments on prisoners, her grandson, Meir Rosenstein, told Israeli news hound Sivan Rahav Meir.

After the Holocaust, Ovitz met the man who would later become her husband, Dov Ovitz, who had lost his wife and four daughters in the genocide.

The couple searched for surviving relatives together and lived in Austria, before eventually settling in Haifa, where they had two daughters and two sons.

For her milestone birthday, Ovitz had one request, for all of her descendants to come together at the holy Jewish site ‐ and her children and grandchildren worked hard to make that happen.

Posted by Fred 2019-08-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ] Top

#1 "Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil" - PSALM 90

Posted by Dron66046 2019-08-08 07:37|| 2019-08-08 07:37|| Front Page Top

#2 where they had two daughters and two sons

Something doesn't compute 4 to 400 in two generations?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-08-08 07:37|| 2019-08-08 07:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Look at the photo at the link, g(r)omgoru. Lots of beards and black suits on the menfolk, suggesting the family ended up on the Haredi side of the aisle — so families with eight or more children could be common.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-08-08 08:45|| 2019-08-08 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 8^3?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-08-08 08:47|| 2019-08-08 08:47|| Front Page Top

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