Jehuda Widawski
1919–2026Yehuda Aharon Widawski (1919–2026) was Israel's oldest Holocaust survivor, a Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz survivor who devoted decades to restoring Jewish cemeteries in Poland.
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Yehuda Aharon Widawski was born in Poland in 1919. Following the Nazi invasion he was imprisoned with his family in the Lodz Ghetto and later deported to Auschwitz, where he lost his parents and most of his siblings. He and his brother Jehoszua survived Josef Mengele's selection, were sent to the Friedland work camp, and were liberated by the Red Army in 1945.
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