The Ones That Got Away...

[Gisooo 3,344]

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

[alt obits guy 3,371]

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

[CastAway 488]

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

[YoungWillz 21,046]

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. 

[arghton 6,738]

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.

[Gisooo 3,344]

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)

[Octopus of Odstock 2,197]

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...)

[Gisooo 3,344]

Czech Holocaust survivor Lisa Mikova (Wiki) dead at 99

 

 

[MortalCaso 1,627]

On 17/06/2022 at 06:19, Gisooo said:

Here's a list of oldest living Auschwitz concentration camp survivors

 

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1929

Max Eisen (Wiki)

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Max Eisen reported dead. 

 

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6513625

[Gisooo 3,344]

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

 

          

[drol 11,946]

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.

[arghton 6,738]

Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg dead at 96.

 

[Ulitzer95 12,620]

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.

[Ulitzer95 12,620]

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.
 

 

[Ulitzer95 12,620]

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.

[arghton 6,738]

Sinti Holocaust survivor (Sachsenhausen, Ravensbrück) Zilli Schmidt-Reichmann dead at 98. 

[Ulitzer95 12,620]

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.

[arghton 6,738]

Hédi Fried, Swedish-Romanian author, psychologist and holocaust survivor (Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen) mentioned multiple times here, dead at 98.

[Gisooo 3,344]

 

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) 

 

 

[arghton 6,738]

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

[arghton 6,738]

Fang Qiaomei, one of the last Comfort women, dead at 101 (text in Chinese).

[arghton 6,738]

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.

[arghton 6,738]

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)

[drol 11,946]

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.

[arghton 6,738]

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.