A fine person has crossed over.........

[LibraryLady]

Mike Jacobs couldn’t forget the horrors of the Holocaust he endured, so he worked diligently to ensure the atrocities would never be forgotten.

His mother, father, two sisters and two brothers died in gas chambers at Treblinka. A brother died fighting the Nazis. Another 60 to 70 relatives also died in camps.

Jacobs survived five years before he was liberated. He immigrated to Dallas, where he built a successful metal recycling business. His work to protect Holocaust history included organizing Dallas survivors, telling anyone who would listen and founding what is now the Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance.

Jacobs, 89, died Monday of complications from prostate cancer while in hospice at The Legacy at Preston Hollow.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Congregation Shearith Israel. He will be buried in the Congregation Shearith Israel Cemetery.
rest of obituary
http://www.dallasnews.com/obituary-headlines/20140728-mike-jacobs-holocaust-survivor-and-founder-of-dallas-museum-dies-at-89.ece

[ann jusko]

A man who deserves our respect, for sure.

[crocmommy]

Wonder how many Jewish people with direct links to the Holocaust are still left? Not many I'm sure....

[Dancer]

A man who deserves our respect, for sure.

Plus Five.

[BillB]

Wonder how many Jewish people with direct links to the Holocaust are still left? Not many I'm sure....

Direct links?
There are quite a few that had parents and siblings in the camps.
There are probably quite a few who were actually liberated from the camps.
A person would only need to be in their early 70s to have been there as a child.

There are also a lot of phony Holocaust survivors. They are exposing the fakes all the time.
One man wrote a best seller a few years ago about his experiences at a death camp. He turned out to be a fraud.

[crocmommy]

I don't have any links. It just appears that the survivors are all getting pretty old.