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6 Holocaust survivors to give their testimonies at annual Yom HaShoah ceremony Share “If we forget, the dead will die a second time,” said Nobel prize laureate and Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel. As the world prepares to remember the Holocaust on Friday, it is a very real issue in South Africa where the community of those who survived the Nazi German genocide of 6 million Jews is dwindling. The handful of survivors who remain from the death camps are old. They were children when they were interned with their parents, grandparents and siblings – most of whom never made it to freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic too has made it even more critical that they are not put at further risk by attending public events. ....