Dec 20, 2020
Baruch and his late wife Nelly had two children, both of them Israeli Air Force pilots, and eight grandchildren.
By TPS
Yad Vashem, Israel’s national Holocaust memorial, issued a statement on mourning the passing of Baruch Shub, a Holocaust survivor and partisan during WWII.
Shub passed away over the weekend at the age of 96.
Shub served as a member of the Yad Vashem Directorate and of the Commission for the Designation of the Righteous Among the Nations, gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust.
Shub was born in 1924 in Vilnius, Lithuania, to a Hassidic family, the second child of a family of six. During the Holocaust, he used his degree in mechanical engineering to work for the Germans in various locations.