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Born in Czechoslovakia in 1926, Mrs Horak is a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
She describes herself as a graduate of Nazi Germany s regime of persecution that resulted in the murder of six million Jews, along with other minorities.
On Wednesday, she shared her story to mark the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was located in then-occupied Poland.
More than 1.1 million people, primarily Jews, were killed at the camp.
READ MORE I am a Holocaust survivor. I am a witness. I was in Auschwitz as an inmate, not a tourist, Mrs Horak planned to say during an evening commemoration.
Same views, very different fates for Court and Folau
January 28, 2021 12.05am
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The decision to award Margaret Court Australia’s highest civilian honour, ignoring her very public statements against same-sex marriage and homosexuality, does seem outrageous after Rugby Australia in 2019 terminated the employment of one of Australia’s most outstanding footballers, Israel Folau, for his public, almost-identical views (“Court’s honour ‘was to balance Laver award’”, January 27). He had to leave Australia to continue playing the sport he loved.
Janelle Cann, Bellevue Hill
How ironic Court was given her AC because of gender. This is the person who has waged a bitter campaign against gender and sexuality for many years. Besides, Evonne Goolagong Cawley had already received her well-deserved AC in 2018, thus making a nonsense of the gender balance disparity excuse given by the Council.
Olga Horak is 94 and a half.
She is specific about the half-year, because at her age, it matters, and all those years are a testament to her great achievement: survival.
Olga Horak, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor.
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Mrs Horak is a Czechoslovakin-born Jewish Holocaust survivor, or as she puts it, a âgraduate of the Holocaustâ.
She was interned in five camps during World War II, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, from which she was liberated in 1945 at the age of 18. She lost her entire family in the camps, including her mother, most tragically, on the day of their liberation.