90-Year-Old Hungarian Holocaust Survivor Celebrates Bar Mitzvah At March of the Living
At the “March of the Living” in Hungary, thousands of Jews marked 80 years since the Holocaust, in which over 550,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered. During the march, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor asked to put on tefillin for the first time in his life • Full Story, Photos
By Chabadinfo Reporter
At the “March of the Living” in Hungary, thousands of Jews marked 80 years since the Holocaust, in which over 550,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered.
This year’s march, marked 80 Years since the Hungarian Jews were sent to be killed in Auschwitz, and took place in the shadow of the difficult war in Eretz Yisroel.
The march started from the Dohány Street Synagogue and ended at Keleti (East) railway station, some two kilometers away from where the first Jews were sent to be killed in Auschwitz in the spring of 1944.
The March of the Living in Hungary was led by 80 Holocaust survivors of Hungarian descent, including Aviva Keinan and Marian Miller from Israel.
At the “March of the Living” event, local Chabad Shluchim took the opportunity to set put up a number of Tefillin stands.
Among the memorable moments during the march, a local elder Jew, about 90 years old who survived the horrors of the Holocaust and returned to live in Budapest, approached one of the Shluchim and asked to put on a tefillin for the first time in his life.
The survivor related, “Although I grew up in a Reform home far from religion, and to this day I am a member of the Reform community, but this time I decided to place Tefillin in honor of the Jewish soldiers who are fighting in Gaza.”
“This Mivtzoim is part of an extensive activities we are conducting in Hungary to revive Yiddishkeit in the country and to bring Hungarian Jews into the fold and no longer be ashamed of their origin.” Rabbi Shlomo Kobush, Shliach and chairman of the Orthodox Jewish Communities Association (EMIH) said, “80 years after the Holocaust for thousands of Hungarian Jews. On the banks of the Danube River and sent hundreds of thousands to be murdered in the gas chambers, we are here today to show that Yiddishkeit will perceive.”
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