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Jewish News 24 · Sep 13, 2026

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Yehuda Aharon Widawski, Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor and a longtime advocate for preserving Jewish cemeteries in Poland, has died at 107. Widawski survived Auschwitz and Nazi forced labor during World War II before immigrating to Israel in 1950. Decades later, he returned repeatedly to Poland, dedicating himself to locating and restoring Jewish graves and cemeteries that had been neglected or destroyed during the Holocaust.

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