Holocaust survivor Phillip Maisel dies at the age of 100
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Holocaust survivor dies age 100 leaving behind his twin sisters who he was separated from by Nazis: ‘What a life. What a legacy’
- Holocaust survivor Phillip Maisel died on Monday at the age of 100
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A Holocaust survivor has died just weeks after his 100th birthday – leaving behind his twin sister who he was separated from during the war.
Loved ones said Phillip Maisel, a well-known volunteer at Melbourne’s Jewish Holocaust Centre, passed away on Monday.
Mr Maisel is survived by his sister and fellow survivor of the Nazi regime, Bella.
‘What a mensch,’ one mate said, using a Yiddish word that means a person of integrity. ‘What a life’.
Holocaust survivor Phillip Maisel has died at the age of 100
A funeral for Mr Maisel will be held on Wednesday.
While volunteering at the Holocaust Centre, he recorded the testimonies of hundreds of survivors.
‘Each testimony of survival is a miracle in itself – earning Phillip the nickname ‘the Keeper of Miracles’,’ the centre wrote.
He was captured by the Nazis in 1943, and would spend the next two years suffering in a labor camps across Estonia, Poland and Germany, before the prisoners were liberated.
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