Posted on 01/27/21
| News Source: i24
There are an estimated 180,000 Holocaust survivors living in Israel
When the face of 86-year-old Holocaust survivor Naomie Lichthaus appeared on their screen, the staff at the call center of Israel's Yad Ezer La-Haver foundation were ready to respond.
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The foundation established by Shimon Shabag in the northern port city of Haifa in 2001 has been supporting survivors of the Nazis for two decades but its mission has expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, 76 years since the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz, Holocaust survivors find themselves vulnerable to a virus that preys on the elderly and has forced many into painful isolation. Read more at i24