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Israel's Oldest Holocaust Survivor, Yehuda Widawski, Dies at 107

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Yehuda Aharon Widawski, Israel's oldest Holocaust survivor, has died at 107. He survived multiple Nazi camps and later dedicated decades to restoring Jewish cemeteries in Poland, viewing the existence of Israel as his ultimate revenge against the Nazis.

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Israel's oldest Holocaust survivor, Yehuda Widawski, died at 107.
Widawski survived multiple Nazi concentration camps.
He dedicated decades to restoring Jewish cemeteries in Poland.
Widawski saw the State of Israel as his revenge against the Nazis.
He identified and restored over 3,000 graves in Poland.

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