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Yesterday the Mayor of Tirana decorated the honorable professors who were persecuted during the time of communism and who survived the dark dictatorship.

 

Here is the photo of three persucated academicians (one of them was Ismet Elezi, world war II veteran)

 

The others

Luan Omari (born 1925) aged 98 (lawyer)

Njazi Jaho (born 1924) aged 99 (historian and spy)

 

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Sir Ben Helfgott (Wiki), one of two Jewish athletes known to have competed in the Olympics after surviving the Holocaust dead at 93

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Down to 39 Nanjing massacre survivors as Gao Hengfa dies at 97.

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On 16/06/2023 at 11:06, Gisooo said:

Sir Ben Helfgott (Wiki), one of two Jewish athletes known to have competed in the Olympics after surviving the Holocaust dead at 93

Who is the other one ? Is he/she still alive ?

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11 minutes ago, Sinbabad said:

Who is the other one ? Is he/she still alive ?


Other is Shaul Ladany (wiki) who was born in 1936 and is still alive.

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Reports that Johanna Ruf, the last survivor of Hitler's Bunker in 1945, has died: 

 

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In the context of Ben Ferencz' death, I was wondering how many eyewitnesses of the top Nazi echelon there might still be. I forgot about Ruf though.

I assume the last people who saw Hitler eye to eye were those unfortunate 16 year old boys of the Volkssturm.

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54 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

In the context of Ben Ferencz' death, I was wondering how many eyewitnesses of the top Nazi echelon there might still be. I forgot about Ruf though.

I assume the last people who saw Hitler eye to eye were those unfortunate 16 year old boys of the Volkssturm.

Never saw Hitler but definitely saw top Nazis - Soviet TV boss Enver Mamedov was a handler of atleast Nazi field marshal Friedrich Paulus during the Nurnberg trials. 

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1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

Reports that Johanna Ruf, the last survivor of Hitler's Bunker in 1945, has died: 

 

 

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1 hour ago, gcreptile said:

In the context of Ben Ferencz' death, I was wondering how many eyewitnesses of the top Nazi echelon there might still be. I forgot about Ruf though.

I assume the last people who saw Hitler eye to eye were those unfortunate 16 year old boys of the Volkssturm.

3.2.1… before someone mentions Gunther Schwagermann

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On 23/06/2023 at 03:12, Ulitzer95 said:

Shaul Ladany (wiki) was born in 1936 and is still alive.

Shaul Ladany also survived the Munich massacre.

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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.

Seems like one anonymous comfort woman has recently died, as according to this Wikipedia page there are only 9 left in South Korea. Three of them are anonymous.

 

Some of the remaining survivors met last month:

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L-R: Lee Yong-soo (94), Park Ok-seon - correct spelling? Korean name 박옥선 (99) and Kang Il-Chul 강일출 (94). Couldn't find if it was mentioned who the fourth person is. Lee Yong-soo seems to be doing amazing for 94.

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6 minutes ago, Lafaucheuse said:

Léon Gautier dead at 101. Breaking News from le Monde.

Choisi pour le DDP. Necrologie possible?

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Sorry, post deleted.

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6 minutes ago, Sinbabad said:

Facepalm.

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I've posted one in the DDP thread. ;)

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Kaya Mirecka-Ploss (Wiki), Polish-born American writer and Holocaust survivor dead at 98

 

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For the medical miracles series, 99-year old Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert hospitalised and underwent surgery , but now on the mend and soon to be discharged.

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Isabelle Choko (Wiki), Polish-born French concentration camp survivor and former chess player who won the 1956 French Women's Chess Championship dead at 94

 

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Frida Werkstel (Hebrew wiki) Holocaust survivor (Vilna Ghetto, Dachau) who later joined militant group Lehi and participated in the Cairo–Haifa train bombings of 1948 (and eventually joined the IDF Medical Corps in 1949), dead at 101.

 

I wonder how many Lehi members there are left as it's mentioned she was the oldest living member at the time of her death. The group was dissolved in May 1948. There are three marked living on the Hebrew Wikipedia - Ezra Yachin (95), Yehuda Naut (98/99) and Eliezer Ben-Ami (99, most known for assembling "orange grenades" one of which was used as a suicide grenade by Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani in 1947)

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Ukrainian professor Ihor Kozlovskyi who was caught by Russians/the Donetsk puppet govt in 2016 and survived ~700 days of imprisonment and torture, dead at 69 from a heart attack.

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