In preparation for International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, the Authority for the Rights of Holocaust Survivors in the Prime Minister’s Office is publishing data on the 135 disabled veterans of the war.
In preparation for International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, the Authority for the Rights of Holocaust Survivors in the Prime Minister’s Office is publishing data on the 135 disabled veterans of the war against the Nazis currently living in Israel. In the past, their number was more than 13,600 (recall that during World War II, the fighters were young boys, at the very least). Disabled Nazi war veterans are defined as those who were injured and suffered health damage as a result of their war service as part of the Allies or as part of fighting units (such as the partisans) during World War II.
Of them 114 are men (about 85%) and 21 are women (about 15%). Their average age is 99, the youngest born in Poland is 90 and the oldest born in Lithuania is 106. About 78% of them are widowed (106), about 18% of them are married (24).
Most of them, 95 (about 70%) immigrated to Israel in the 1990s, 15 of them (about 11%) immigrated in the 1950s. In 2011, the last of the war invalids who currently live in Israel immigrated. 78 of them immigrated from the Soviet Union (about 58%), 18 of them immigrated from Ukraine (about 13%), 16 of them immigrated from Poland (about 12%) and the rest from other European countries. 15 of them live in Netanya, 12 in Ashdod, and 11 in Ashkelon and Haifa.
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