After the liberation of Auschwitz, Shoshana met Dov Ovitz, a cousin of hers whose wife and four daughters had also perished in the Holocaust. They married soon after and lived in Austria before moving to Haifa, where they had four children together.Ovitz’s eldest granddaughter, Panini Friedman said, “Only during the celebration did we understand how important she is. We all had tears in our eyes. It was very moving,” Walla reported.Friedman told Walla that even with 400 people there, not all of the family could make it.“We’re missing about 10% of them,” she said.To celebrate her 104th birthday, #Auschwitz survivor Shoshana Ovitz asked all her descendants come together to #Jerusalem for prayer at the Western Wall.Moving image. pic.twitter.com/hpUgreVOgq
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) August 7, 2019
Ovitz took the opportunity to bless all her family together, and said that she merited surviving the Holocaust after honoring her parents, one of the most important commandments in Judaism.Photos and videos of the gathering soon went viral over the Internet.The Israel-advocacy organization StandWithUs tweeted a video of the celebrations, and the Auschwitz Memorial account tweeted a photograph of the whole family together.For her 104th birthday, Shoshana Ovitz, a survivor of Auschwitz, took a picture with her entire family at the Western Wall, sending a powerful message - The Jewish people live on. #NeverAgain via: @JBN pic.twitter.com/j29ra2mbsR
— StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) August 8, 2019