Holocaust survivor Shoshana Ovitz celebrated her 104th birthday last week at the Western Wall surrounded by about 400 of her descendants, according to Israeli news outlets.
It was Ovitz’s wish to have all her extended family gather for an extended reunion.
“My grandmother, Shoshana Ovitz, survived Auschwitz,” Meir Rosenstein told Israeli journalist Sivan Rahav Meir. “In front of her eyes Dr. Mengele took her mother. After the war, she met Grandpa Dov, who lost his wife and four daughters in the camps.”
Mengele is accused of sending 400,000 Jews to their death at Auschwitz from 1943 to 1945. Nicknamed the Nazi “Angel of Death,” he conducted inhumane medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz and was never captured.
Rosenstein said Ovitz and Dov “got married and went to Haifa. She worked as a seamstress and helped him run the chicken shop. Now Grandma celebrated her 104th birthday and asked for a gift: That all her descendants come together to the Western Wall.”
Ovitz, who has two sons and two daughters, asked to bless all of her descendants at the wall but her daughter told her that it might take quite a while.
Instead, Shoshana said she would pray that “everyone gets everything they need,” said her oldest granddaughter, Panini Friedman.
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