(JEWISH GROUP) Holocaust survivor dies 2 weeks after great-grandson was killed in Gaza as she visited Bergen-Belsen
Two weeks after her IDF soldier great-grandson was killed fighting in northern Gaza, 96-year-old Holocaust survivor Magda Baratz died on Friday, it is announced.
On April 24, IDF reservist Master Sgt. (res.) Asaf Cafri was killed by sniper fire in the Beit Hanoun area of Gaza, in an attack that wounded three others.
At the time Cafri was killed, Baratz was attending a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where she was honored as a survivor of the death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen. She traveled there with her grandson Hagai, Cafri’s father.
Both only learned of Cafri’s death upon their arrival back in Israel, reports said.
Asaf Cafri (left), an IDF reservist who was killed in Gaza on April 25, 2025, and his great-grandmother, Holocaust survivor Magda Baratz, pictured on a billboard set up in Rishon Lezion in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day before his death. (Oren Dai/Rishon Lezion Municipality)
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