Holocaust Victims: Israel’s Dirty Little Secret………..
“Poverty among Holocaust survivors in Israel is something of a dirty little secret. An estimated 70,000 survivors — one-third of those living in Israel — don't have enough money to make ends meet, victims' support groups say. The survivors show up in soup kitchens or government welfare agencies. Tsipora Yaffe, 74, who escaped the 1941 Odessa massacre that killed her father, collects recyclable bottles from trash bins and off the street. "It's humiliating," said Yaffe, who does not live at the shelter. "But I close my eyes and do it."……. Despite the gratitude of those living in the shelter, there's also a sense of bitterness and betrayal. Residents ask how a nation established in part on their suffering could turn its back on their needs. "We helped found the state of Israel and built it," said Miryam Kremin, 88, who escaped a Polish ghetto as a teenager, leaving behind parents she never saw again. "They should make our final years better."……..” Seattle Times
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