| Never forget. What a brave man. |
He was a disciplined fighter in the eyes of his Polish commanders. A boy who dared to face a German officer and disguised himself as a Christian; a "classic story of survival and Zionism," in the eyes of his son.
| Someone completely unlike George Soros, you mean? |
Holocaust survivor Peretz 'Pavel' Hochman, a fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Germans, died of cancer on Sunday. He was 86. Next week he was supposed to light a torch at Yad Vashem's Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony. His widow will light the candle in his place.
Hochman's story was told in the book "The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square" by Joseph Ziemian. He was born in 1927 in Warsaw, the fourth of eight brothers. |