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Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 4:32 am | י ד שבט תשפ א
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Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 4:32 am | י ד שבט תשפ א
In this Jan. 27, 2019 file photo, a man walks through the gate of the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp with the phrase
Arbeit macht frei (work sets you free) above, during International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Oranienburg, about 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)
Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia were poised to get their first coronavirus vaccination Wednesday, acknowledging their past suffering with a special tribute 76 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, where the Nazis murdered more than one million Jews,
Shoah survivors in Europe to get vaccine on Auschwitz liberation day
Municipal and Jewish community leaders organize special vaccination drive in Vienna and Bratislava, with some 400 survivors in the Austrian set to be inoculated by 12 volunteer Jewish doctors
Associated Press |
Published: 01.27.21 , 11:18
Hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Austria and Slovakia were poised to get their first coronavirus vaccination Wednesday, acknowledging their past suffering with a special tribute 76 years after the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, where the Nazis killed more than 1 million Jews and others.
“We owe this to them,” said Erika Jakubovits, the Jewish Community of Vienna organizer of the vaccination drive. “They have suffered so much trauma and have felt even more insecure during this pandemic.”