MEMORIAL DAY: Holocaust survivors Miroslaw Celka and Janina Reklajtis attend a ceremony in former Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, yesterday Picture: REUTERS
Tens of thousands spending final years homeless, hungry and cold
ISAAC walks a shuffling path through the rotting newspapers and piled-up rubbish bags that swamp his kitchen. Despite the January cold, he wears sandals as he picks his way through the squalor to the toilet. Awaiting him is a bath with no hot water and a small basin that is black with rot and mould.
The crumbling flat in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, has no oven and …read more
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