eretzyisrael:Arie, a Holocaust survivor and veteran of Israel’s War of Independence, <3s Israel!H
eretzyisrael:Arie, a Holocaust survivor and veteran of Israel’s War of Independence, <3s Israel!He was born in Lithuania in 1929 and pretended to be a shoemaker to escape the death camps. He survived the Shtutthof concentration camp and the Dachau concentration camp, including one of the infamous death marches. In 1948, he came to Israel to fight for the independence of his newly born country.Today he spends his days in Tel Aviv learning Spanish and attending lectures at the Tel Aviv University.What an inspiration! -- source link