"I am in shock—I have no words. Honestly, we thought she'd make it to 110," her granddaughter said.
Nechama Grossman, Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor, died at the age of 109 on April 24, coinciding with Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day.
Her granddaughter Luba told Kan News, “I am in shock—I have no words. Honestly, we thought she’d make it to 110. Yesterday, I gave her a bath, and she wasn’t feeling well. She was lucid until the end and died peacefully. On Holocaust Remembrance Day of all days.”
In recent days, Grossman “dreamed that there were Nazis near her; she woke up and said she dreamed they were choking her. She was afraid of the Nazis—that it was coming back,” Luba told the public broadcaster.