Gisooo 3,259 Posted May 18, 2022 On 27/02/2022 at 16:02, Gisooo said: Margot Heuman (Wiki) at 94 is the last lesbian survivor of Holocaust, born in Germany, now living somewhere in New York. Margot Heuman reported dead The first queer, Jewish woman known to have survived Nazi concentration camps was 94 5 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,365 Posted May 23, 2022 Billy Young, the last survivor of the Sandakan camp, a prisoner of war camp in Borneo, has died. He was 96. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-20/billy-young-last-survivor-of-sandakan-camp-dies-from-covid-19/101086708?_gl=1*8e76d0*_ga*OTg3NDM0MjY3LjE2NDk4MjQ0MjE.*_ga_P5YBFN1DK1*MTY1MzI2ODQwNS4xOC4xLjE2NTMyNjg0MjcuMA 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CastAway 488 Posted May 28, 2022 Élie Buzyn, Polish-French Holocaust survivor, dead at 93: https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2022/05/23/elie-buzyn-ancien-deporte-et-grand-temoin-de-la-shoah-est-mort_6127319_3224.html 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 20,919 Posted June 9, 2022 Clive Doyle, one of the Waco (everybody say Waco...Waco) massacre survivors who remained devout til the end of his days to Koresh and the Branch Davidian sect, reportedly dead aged 80: Interview with him here from 2018: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/bible-study-david-koreshs-last-followers/ I'll leave it to @arghton to track down any names of still living escapees. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,639 Posted June 9, 2022 9 minutes ago, YoungWillz said: I'll leave it to @arghton to track down any names of still living escapees. From Decider.com: Out of the nine survivors who escaped the fire, David Thibodeau has been the most open about his time with the cult. As mentioned before, he wrote a book about his time with the Branch Davidians and worked as a consultant on the miniseries. The other survivors of the Branch Davidians were Renos Avraam, Jaime Castillo, Graeme Craddock, Clive Doyle, Misty Ferguson, Derek Lloyd Lovelock, Ruth Ellen Ottoman Riddle, and Marjorie Thomas. Of the eight, Avraam, Castillo, and Craddock all served prison time due to what they did with the Branch Davidians. The remainder of the survivors have largely kept to themselves and have maintained peaceful lives. Jaime Castillo died from liver failure and hepatitis at 40 in 2008. Seven still alive as far as I know. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,259 Posted June 17, 2022 Here's a list of oldest living Auschwitz concentration camp survivors 1921 Ella Blumenthal (Wiki) 1923 Lily Ebert (Wiki) Zofia Posmyz (Wiki) 1924 Renée Firestone (Wiki) Hedi Fried (Wiki) 1925 Bat-Sheva Dagan (Wiki) Moshe Ha-Elion (Wiki) Ginette Kolinka (Wiki) 1926 Kitty Hart-Morxon (Wiki) Olga Horak (Wiki) Yvette Lévy (Wiki) Roma Rothstein (Wiki) Ruth Minsky Sender (Wiki) Marian Turski (Wiki) Leon Weintraub (Wiki) 1927 Denise Holstein (Wiki) Edith Eger (Wiki) David Weiss Halivni (Wiki) Tibor Hollo (Wiki) Anna Ornstein (Wiki) 1928 Tova Ben Zvi (Wiki) Sabina Citron (Wiki) Martin Greenfield (Wiki) Arek Hersh (Wiki) Nate Leipciger (Wiki) 1929 Yehuda Bacon (Wiki) Edith Balas (Wiki) Halina Birenbaum (Wiki) Toman Brod (Wiki) Max Eisen (Wiki) Thomas Geve (Wiki) Elly Gross (Wiki) Helga Hošková-Weissová (Wiki) Ivan Ivanji (Wiki) Bernard Offen (Wiki) Irene Zisblatt (Wiki) 1930 Zeev Kun (Wiki) Jona Laks (Wiki) Joel Lebowitz (Wiki) Aranka Siegal (Wiki) 1931 Livia Bitton-Jackson (Wiki) Edith Bruck (Wiki) 1932 Bernat Rosner (Wiki) 1933 Rena Margulies Chernoff (Wiki) 1934 Thomas Burgenthal (Wiki) 1939 Ryszard Horowitz (Wiki) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,180 Posted June 17, 2022 6 hours ago, Gisooo said: Here's a list of oldest living Auschwitz concentration camp survivors Hedi Fried (Wiki Yehuda Bacon (Wiki) All I could think about when reading this list was mmmm.. fried bacon (Best said in a Homer Simpson drawl...) 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,259 Posted June 26, 2022 Czech Holocaust survivor Lisa Mikova (Wiki) dead at 99 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MortalCaso 1,618 Posted July 8, 2022 On 17/06/2022 at 06:19, Gisooo said: Here's a list of oldest living Auschwitz concentration camp survivors ---snip 1929 Max Eisen (Wiki) ---snip Max Eisen reported dead. https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6513625 3 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,259 Posted August 8, 2022 On 17/06/2022 at 04:19, Gisooo said: 1923 Lily Ebert (Wiki) Zofia Posmysz (Wiki) Zofia Posmysz (Wiki), Polish writer, journalist and resistance fighter in World War II who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps dead at 98, 15 days before her 99th birthday 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,799 Posted August 9, 2022 On 27/10/2021 at 11:04, arghton said: https://www.wnky.com/i/hiroshima-atomic-bombing-survivor-sunao-tsuboi-dies-at-96/ https://apnews.com/article/japan-barack-obama-bombings-nuclear-weapons-a05d38dd0e65f9a5ed1e7c85c477cc97 Hibakusha (Atomic bomb survivor, Hiroshima) and Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations Co-Chair, Kiyoshi Tanimoto peace prize winner Sunao Tsuboi has died at the age of 96. From Wikipedia: "In 1945 he was a student of the Hiroshima Vocational School in Senda-machi. On the morning of August 6 he had just eaten breakfast at a dining hall named "Shima no Kaori" and was invited to have a second breakfast with some other students. He declined as he was concerned that the young woman behind the counter would think him a glutton. When the bomb exploded soon afterwards he was walking to school and he was badly burned. Everyone in the dining room was killed. (Hiroshima: In Memoriam and Today. HIMAT Group. 2000. pp. 39–49.) The school was abandoned and catching fire, so he went to an aunt's house nearby. He was in shock and belatedly realized he was badly injured and didn't wish to be a burden to her, so he left. He went to the Miyuki bridge where he heard that there was an aid station. But the only assistance there was cooking oil being used to ease the pain from burns. Policemen were pouring it onto the skin of school children. He was later taken to Ujina (Hiroshima port) by a truck and then to Ninoshima by barge. Only young men were being evacuated, as they were considered valuable for the war effort. He asked a woman visiting to inform his family. He stayed on Ninoshima for several days cared for by a classmate who fed him. His classmate was then sent elsewhere. His mother and uncle searched among the dead and dying for three days with no success. When her uncle suggested leaving and holding a funeral for him, his mother began running around screaming his name. He heard her and put up his hand and said "Here I am." He was taken to his home in Ando but was not conscious of this. When his aunt first saw him, she said he looked like a ghost. He didn't know the war had ended and didn't believe it had when he was told." "Tsuboi was cared for by his family. He developed aplastic anaemia. He received many blood transfusions and was hospitalized eleven times. Three times his condition became so bad that he was told he was about to die. He suffered from several illnesses including two cancer diagnoses. He received intravenous transfusions for anemia every two weeks." Tsuboi met Obama in 2016. Notable living Hibakusha: Hiroshima: Hashizume Bun (1932-, Japanese wiki) Writer Isao Harimoto (1940-) Korean former Nippon Professional Baseball player and holder of the record for most hits in the Japanese professional leagues, only Hiroshima survivor to play professional basketball in Japan Issey Miyake (1938-) Fashion designer Koko Kondo (1944-) Activist, daughter of Kiyoshi Tanimoto (1909-1986) Setsuko Thurlow (1932-) Nuclear disarmament activist, leading figure and founding member of ICAN Shigeaki Mori (1937-) Historian known for his research on Allied prisoners who died during the air raids on Japan. Also met Obama in 2016 and hugged him. Hiroko Takenishi (1929-) Fiction writer and literary critic Nagasaki: Terumi Tanaka (1932-) Secretary-General of Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations Also might have been the last living notable Hibakusha who was an adult in 1945. Cross posting Hibakusha Issey Miyake is dead. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,639 Posted September 24, 2022 Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg dead at 96. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,432 Posted October 3, 2022 Judah Samet (wiki), Hungarian-born American Holocaust survivor, public speaker and businessman, dead at 84 from stomach cancer. Also a survivor of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, in which 11 people were killed. Samet was a guest of honour at President Trump's 2019 State of the Union address. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,432 Posted October 3, 2022 Captain Charles Vyvyan Howard dead at 102. Not an escapee of The Great Escape (they're all dead), but a notable participant in the plot. He distracted guards, talking to them in German, whilst others dug tunnels. Daily Mail obit, and an interview with his son from this morning below. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,432 Posted October 6, 2022 On 03/10/2022 at 12:12, Ulitzer95 said: Captain Charles Vyvyan Howard dead at 102. Not an escapee of The Great Escape (they're all dead), but a notable participant in the plot. He distracted guards, talking to them in German, whilst others dug tunnels. Daily Mail obit, and an interview with his son from this morning below. Telegraph obit for Captain Vyvyan Howard clarifies that he was the last Brit involved in The Great Escape. So now they really are all gone. 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,639 Posted October 23, 2022 Sinti Holocaust survivor (Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück) Zilli Schmidt-Reichmann dead at 98. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,432 Posted November 1, 2022 On 17/06/2022 at 12:19, Gisooo said: Here's a list of oldest living Auschwitz concentration camp survivors *snip* Moshe Ha-Elion (Wiki) *snip* Moshe Ha-Elion dead at 97. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,639 Posted November 20, 2022 Hédi Fried, Swedish-Romanian author, psychologist and holocaust survivor (Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen) mentioned multiple times here, dead at 98. 2 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,259 Posted November 20, 2022 When a Holocaust survivor dies, I always open YouTube and listen to this masterpiece, I don't know, I'm so spiritually devastated. RIP Hedi (1924 - 2022) 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,639 Posted December 2, 2022 Is Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivor, Hiroshima) Akiko Takakura 高蔵信子 still alive? Miraculously survived 300 meters away from the hypocenter, interviewed in Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II (2005) Cast excluding the reenactment actors: John Hurt (1940-2017) Narrator Shuntaro Hida (1917-2017) Physician who survived Hiroshima and went on to treat survivors until dying at 100. Kinuko Laskey (1929-2004) Survivor, Nurse, died unexpectedly around 9 months before the docudrama was released. Morio Ozaki (?) Survivor, "Army cadet", can't find much info on him. Teruko Fujii (?) Survivor, "16-year-old tram driver", can't find much info on her. Thomas Takashi Tanemori (1937-) Survivor Akiko Takakura (1925/1928-) City bank clerk, survived the bombing 260-300 meters from the hypocenter Shigeru Terasawa (1926/1927-alive?) Survivor Paul Tibbets (1915-2007) commanding officer and pilot of the Enola Gay. Theodore Van Kirk (1921-2014) Navigator of the aircraft Morris R. Jeppson (1922-2010) weapon test officer Russell Gackenbach (1923-2019) Navigator of the accompanying photographic aircraft Necessary Evil Fred Ashworth (1912-2005) Weaponeer on the B-29 Bockscar George Elsey (1918-2015) interviewed as an eyewitness to the Potsdam Conference 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,639 Posted December 15, 2022 Fang Qiaomei, one of the last Comfort women, dead at 101 (text in Chinese). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,639 Posted December 20, 2022 Updated, longer and better list of notable living Hibakusha (survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) Hiroshima Shuzo Teruka (1924-2023, Japanese wiki) Agricultural economist. Bone cancer in 1984, bladder cancer in 1993. Akiko Takakura (1925/1928-) Appeared in docudrama Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II. Survived the bombing 260-300 meters from the hypocentre. Kazuo Nakajo (1926-2023, Japanese wiki) Footballer and sports writer, survived 1.8km from the hypocentre. Takeshi Yoshinaga (1926-, Japanese wiki) Horse racing jockey and trainer Hidenori Murata (1928-2023, Japanese wiki) Animation producer, founder of Eiken anime studio. Atsushi Hoshino (1928-, Japanese wiki) Historian, political scientist, agronomist Hiroko Takenishi (1929-) Fiction writer and literary critic Kikuo Hatashima (1930-, Japanese wiki) Researcher, literature critic and poet Saburo Yamashita (1930-, Japanese wiki) Politician Hashisume Bun (1931-, Japanese wiki) Writer Taeko Nakanishi (1931-) Voice actress Hiroyasu Amase (1931-, Japanese wiki) Writer Shoji Sawada (1931-, Japanese wiki) Physicist Seigo Orii (1931-, Japanese wiki) Author Yukio Shimomura (1932-) National team football player and manager. Setsuko Thurlow (1932-) Nuclear disarmament activist, leading figure and founding member of ICAN Ryusuke Oshita (1936-, Japanese wiki) Businessman Shigeaki Mori (1937-) Historian known for his research on Allied prisoners who died during the air raids on Japan. Also met Obama in 2016 and hugged him. Thomas Takashi Tanemori (1937-) Appeared in docudrama Hiroshima: BBC History of World War II. Masaaki Tanabe (1937-, Japanese wiki) Filmmaker Yumiko Ueda (1938-, Japanese wiki) Poet, essayist, painter Isao Harimoto (1940-) Korean former Nippon Professional Baseball player and holder of the record for most hits in the Japanese professional leagues, only Hiroshima survivor to play professional basketball in Japan. Has suffered from illnesses. Ryuusei Takeda (1940-, Japanese wiki) Buddhist cleric Akiyoshi Kitaura (1940-, Japanese wiki) Actor Kazuo Imanishi (1941-) National team footballer. Miraculously survived and suffers from ailments related to radiation exposure. Aritatsu Ogi (1942-) National team footballer. Kensei Mizote (1942-2023) Politician, former Diet member. Hiroshi Amamoto (1943-, Japanese wiki) Doctor Koko Kondo (1944-) Anti-nuclear bomb activist Hideo Tanaka (1944-, Japanese wiki) Kyoto politician Eiji Oshita (1944-, Japanese wiki) Journalist Hiroko Ougi (1945-, Japanese wiki) Actress and singer. Nagasaki Sunao Sasaguchi (1928-, Japanese wiki) Painter. Heart attack in 1988, stroke in 1998 Michiko Kano (1929-, Japanese wiki) Researcher Terumi Tanaka (1932-) Secretary-General of Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations Masayoshi Ozaki (1932-, Japanese wiki) Painter Akihiro Miwa (1935-) Gay singer, actor, director, composer, musician and drag queen. Has suffered from radiation exposure related ailments and suffered a stroke in 2019. Koichi Kawano (1940-, Japanese wiki) Anti-nuclear bomb activist Masako Wada (1943-, Japanese wiki) Anti-nuclear bomb activist of Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations. Annoys me that some articles, obituaries have already been calling some survivors "one of the last" or even "the last". There's still a load of them and I assume we'll be in "the lasts" in around fifteen, twenty years. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,639 Posted December 24, 2022 Wang Jin, one of the remaining survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, dead at 91. There are 53 survivors still alive according to the Nanjing Japanese Invasion Victims Aid Association. Includes Xiong Shulan (熊淑兰) who is 91, Xia Shuqin (夏淑琴) who is 93 and Chang Zhiqiang (常志强) who is 94. See this page for more. Eiko Yamazaki, deaf survivor of Nagasaki being reported dead at 95. (Yahoo news regionlocked) 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drol 11,799 Posted December 27, 2022 On 15/12/2022 at 20:25, arghton said: Fang Qiaomei, one of the last Comfort women, dead at 101 (text in Chinese). South Korean comfort woman Lee Ok-sun dead at 94. Only 10 left in South Korea. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arghton 6,639 Posted December 27, 2022 On 27/12/2022 at 09:06, drol said: South Korean comfort woman Lee Ok-sun dead at 94. Only 10 left in South Korea. There's also only one in Taiwan as far as I know. Can't remember or find the name right now, I'll look for it later. Not sure how much others outside China. (and in China) Edit: Taroko indigenous woman Iwal Tanah (1931-before or in May 2023) is Taiwan's last living comfort woman out of the 59 known. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites