Yehuda Aharon Widawski, the oldest Holocaust survivor in Israel, has passed away at the age of 107.
Born in 1919 in Turek, Poland, he survived the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, and Nazi forced labor camps. He made aliyah in 1950 - and then, in 1978, he went back to Poland. Not to forget. To remember.
For decades, he dedicated his life to locating, documenting, and restoring Jewish cemeteries and graves across Poland - identifying over 3,000 burial sites and preserving the memory of communities that were wiped from the earth.
In 2012, he was chosen to light a torch at Israel's official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony.
He survived the worst humanity had to offer - and spent the rest of his life making sure the world would never forget.
May his memory be a blessing. 🕯️🇮🇱