Holocaust survivor Miriam celebrated her a hundred and fifth birthday on March 25 in her residence in Haifa, as sirens continued to sound all through the North.
Fortunately, the celebrations weren’t canceled by the sirens; Miriam merely moved to the shelter and celebrated there, alongside together with her associates from the assisted dwelling residence for Holocaust survivors and volunteers from the Yad Ezer L’Chaver group.
The group sang and danced collectively, and loved a very scrumptious birthday cake. Israeli singer Regev Hod additionally attended, singing his new hit track, “Thank God.”
Roughly 196,000 Holocaust survivors are alive globally, with half of these dwelling in Israel, knowledge from the New York-based Convention on Jewish Materials Claims In opposition to Germany confirmed in January.
It is a lower from the convention’s January 2025 knowledge, which estimated that roughly 220,000 survivors had been alive on the time.
The convention broke down the place the remaining survivors are believed to be dwelling. Roughly half (97,600) live in Israel; 16% (31,000) are within the US; 9% (17,300) are in France; 7% (14,300) are in Russia; and 5% (10,700) are in Germany. Different survivors are in international locations together with Ukraine, Canada, Hungary, Australia, and Belarus, all of which have over 1,000 survivors.
