SURVIVORS IN ISRAEL: JTA REPORT
Dina Kraft
Holocaust survivor Avri Michal.
Holocaust survivors in Israel
need more as they age, but get less
By Dina Kraft
January 8, 2006
TEL AVIV, Jan. 8 (JTA) â Holocaust survivor Avri Michal sits in a wheelchair with one arm paralyzed and one leg amputated. He does not know how he will get by if his live-in health assistant is taken away from him.
âWithout him, I cannot exist. He does everything for me,â? said Michal. His eyes cloud over and he looks down at the cold tiled floor of his living room.
Michal, 73, survived the Holocaust as a boy by hiding in a mechanics garage in Czechoslovakia. He is now among the thousands of elderly and needy survivors in Israel who face an uncertain future because the welfare group that helps JTA NEWS“>MORE.
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