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100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Advocates for Remembrance

1/26/2026

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Leon Weintraub, now 100, survived the Holocaust after the Nazi invasion of Lodz, Poland, in 1939.
At age 13, he and his family were forced into the Lodz ghetto, enduring starvation.
He was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and witnessed the selection process determining life or death.
After the war, he reunited with three sisters.
Today he advocates for Holocaust remembrance and warns against fading memory.

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Story summary

Leon Weintraub, now 100, survived the Holocaust after the Nazi invasion of Lodz, Poland, in 1939.
At age 13, he and his family were forced into the Lodz ghetto, enduring starvation.
He was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and witnessed the selection process determining life or death.
After the war, he reunited with three sisters.
Today he advocates for Holocaust remembrance and warns against fading memory.