The Ones That Got Away...

[Sir Creep 7,070]

11 hours ago, arghton said:

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.

That is WAYYYYY outside the scope of this thread, mate.  And you know it.

[Gisooo 3,302]

Eva Fahidi (Wiki), Hungarian Holocaust survivor dead at 97

 

 

[Sinbabad 1,115]

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[Gisooo 3,302]

On 07/02/2023 at 09:42, Gisooo said:

I saw a lot of documentaries about The 1951 executions in Albania from where 22 innocent people were shot, among them were only two women, one was Sabiha Kasimati (Wiki)

 

The other one Didi Bicaku (Wiki), she escaped and entered the dungeon from where she survived the massacre, she is still living today at 98!

She is also the niece of Aqif Pasha Elbasani!

 

 

Didi Bicaku (Wiki) dead at 99

[YoungWillz 21,028]

20 hours ago, Gisooo said:

Eva Fahidi (Wiki), Hungarian Holocaust survivor dead at 97

 

 

List of the Missed, last picked in 2020: https://www.derbydeadpool.co.uk/deadpool2020/celebs_P.html#pusztae020

[YoungWillz 21,028]

On 14/05/2022 at 15:46, arghton said:

Tulsa race massacre (31 May - 1 June 1921) survivors has for a while been one of the groups of people like the Tuskegee Airmen and the Flying Tigers, every time a "last living" dies, a few more are discovered

Well, there are three according to this Yahoo article:

 

Viola Fletcher, 108. At some point thought to be the last survivor.

Lessie Benningfield Randle, 107. 

Hughes "Uncle Red" Van Ellis, 101. Viola Fletcher's brother.

Cross posting Hughes Van Ellis' death report:

 

12 minutes ago, tracy said:

Hughes Van Ellis, younger brother of Viola Fletcher and himself a Tulsa race massacre survivor, dead at 102.

 

Cause of death: shock from logging into his favorite forum, DeathList.net, and seeing his sister compared to Fraudster Singh.

 

[arghton 6,697]

On 03/08/2023 at 08:27, arghton said:

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) - died a few days after my post

Ezra Yachin not dead yet, but has enlisted in the IDF as an "active reservist".

Well, getting killed is a good way to avoid getting sent to a nursing home.

 

Edit: Might've been one of the perpetrators of the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre too...Maybe YoungWillz is right.

[YoungWillz 21,028]

3 minutes ago, arghton said:

Ezra Yachin not dead yet, but has enlisted in the IDF as an "active reservist".

Well, getting killed is a good way to avoid getting sent to a nursing home.

I'm assuming the caption is "Imma gonna kill me some Palestinians...again!"

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,684]

I’ve just read the Piers Paul Read book about the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team Andes plane crash, made into the Alive film in 1993. Fascinating story, it’s amazing what the human will to survive can accomplish.
 

16 of the 45 died, and a surprisingly high total of 14 are still alive, though they were all youngish of course, and are mostly in their mid 70s. I should name them for search purposes (obit chances I’m not sure) but the human will has let me down, sorry. 

 

Anyway, that’s it. Carry on.

[YoungWillz 21,028]

3 minutes ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:

I’ve just read the Piers Paul Read book about the 1972 Uruguayan rugby team Andes plane crash, made into the Alive film in 1993. Fascinating story, it’s amazing what the human will to survive can accomplish.
 

16 of the 45 died, and a surprisingly high total of 14 are still alive, though they were all youngish of course, and are mostly in their mid 70s. I should name them for search purposes (obit chances I’m not sure) but the human will has let me down, sorry. 

 

Anyway, that’s it. Carry on.

 

On 27/07/2023 at 23:18, time said:

Jose Luis Inciarte, one of the survivors of the 1972  plane crash of the rugby team in the Andes, who turned cannibal to survive, has died aged 75. He's the second of the 16 survivors to die following Javier Methol in 2015.

We've been discussing them in the Planes, etc Thread.

 

There's a link here to the named survivors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571

 

But I still think we should chat about them on the other thread.

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,684]

1 hour ago, YoungWillz said:

 

We've been discussing them in the Planes, etc Thread.

 

There's a link here to the named survivors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruguayan_Air_Force_Flight_571

 

But I still think we should chat about them on the other thread.

 

I put a few names into the search but nothing came up. Inciarte was coincidentally one of the most endangered of the survivors, but even he had a longish life. 

[drol 11,923]

On 29/06/2023 at 17:23, arghton said:

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:

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.

Chinese comfort woman Li Meijin dead at 97.

 

Down to nine living comfort women in Mainland China.

[Gisooo 3,302]

Hungarian psychologist and Holocaust survivor Magda Hollander-Lafon (Wiki) dead at 96

 

[La Tombe 353]

On 29/11/2023 at 18:55, Gisooo said:

Hungarian psychologist and Holocaust survivor Magda Hollander-Lafon (Wiki) dead at 96

 

PS : She was French-Hungarian

[polar duck 866]

On 23/06/2023 at 00:42, drol said:

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

Three of the 38 remaining survivors were at yesterday's Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day Ceremony:

 

Ai Yiying (95)

 

Xia Shuqin (94)

 

Liu Minsheng (89)

[Gisooo 3,302]

On 17/06/2022 at 04:19, Gisooo said:

1928

Tova Ben Zvi (Wiki)

Sabina Citron (Wiki)

Martin Greenfield (Wiki)

Arek Hersh (Wiki)

Nate Leipciger (Wiki)

 

Sabina Citron (Wiki), Polish author and Auschwitz concentration camp survivor dead at 95

 

[Lafaucheuse 4,045]

Claude Bloch last Auschwitz survivor of Lyon dead at 95

[arghton 6,697]

Nena Kafka, Polish-born Finnish holocaust survivor (Bergen-Belsen) dead at 96.

 

There were already only three in 2005 and Mayer Franck died in 2012, I am quite sure this leaves Lilly Millner the last holocaust survivor in Finland.

 

Shuzo Teruka, Hiroshima survivor died some weeks ago at 99.

[Ulitzer95 12,577]

On 17/06/2022 at 12:19, Gisooo said:

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

 

*snip*

Bat-Sheva Dagan (Wiki)

*snip*

Bat-Sheva Dagan (wiki), probably one of the more prominent names on the Holocaust author-speaker circuit, dead at 98.

[YoungWillz 21,028]

On 14/12/2023 at 15:20, polar duck said:

Three of the 38 remaining survivors were at yesterday's Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day Ceremony:

 

Ai Yiying (95)

 

Xia Shuqin (94)

 

Liu Minsheng (89)

Down to 37 survivors of the Nanjing Massacre as Cheng Fubao reportedly dead aged 91: https://www.thenanjinger.com/jiangsu/briefings-from-jiangsu/nanjing-massacre-survivor-cheng-fubao-passes-away-aged-91/

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Regina Engelhardt, who spent her teenage years in Nazi work camps during World War II, later becoming a multi-media artist and holding her first one-woman show in 1982, has died. She was 95. 

 

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/02/12/regina-engelhardt-whose-teen-years-in-nazi-work-camps-shaped-outlook-dies/72573175007/

[arghton 6,697]

On 10/11/2023 at 09:51, drol said:

Chinese comfort woman Li Meijin dead at 97.

 

Down to nine living comfort women in Mainland China.

Chinese comfort woman "Grandma Ouyang" dead at 96. 

[drol 11,923]

On 18/02/2024 at 01:18, arghton said:

Chinese comfort woman "Grandma Ouyang" dead at 96. 

Chinese comfort woman Liu Ninazhen dead at 107.

[drol 11,923]

On 31/01/2024 at 10:40, YoungWillz said:

Down to 37 survivors of the Nanjing Massacre as Cheng Fubao reportedly dead aged 91: https://www.thenanjinger.com/jiangsu/briefings-from-jiangsu/nanjing-massacre-survivor-cheng-fubao-passes-away-aged-91/

Make it 36 as Chen Guixiang has died at 99.

[alt obits guy 3,371]

Josette Molland, who endured Nazi concentration camps as a captured member of the French resistance, died on February 17th. She was 100.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/06/world/europe/josette-molland-dead.html