The couple were Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Australia from Ukraine, raised two children, and had 11 grandchildren. The Chanukah gathering, she said, was a tradition they observed every year.
A Holocaust survivor was killed while shielding his wife from gunfire during a terror attack at a Chanukah celebration in Sydney, his widow said, describing how her husband stood up to protect her and was struck in the head, Arutz Sheva reports.
Larissa Kleitman said her husband, Alex, was murdered as he rose to block the gunfire. “A bullet hit his head when he stood up to protect me,” she said, speaking of the man she had been married to for 50 years.
Both were Holocaust survivors who later immigrated to Australia from Ukraine, raised two children, and had 11 grandchildren. The Chanukah gathering, she said, was a tradition they observed every year.