100-year-old Holocaust Survivor Lea Gleitman Dead

Lea Gleitman survived the Nazi concentration camps and saw it as her duty to tell about their atrocities. Now she is dead.

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Lea Gleitman survived the Nazi concentration camps and saw it as her duty to tell about their atrocities. Now she is dead.

Lea Gleitman was the last living member of the association Förintelsens ögonvittnen in Malmö, writes Sydsvenskan.

She was born in the Polish city of Oswiecim, which later became notorious under the German name Auschwitz. She survived the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen and lost 65 relatives, most of whom were gassed to death in Auschwitz.

Through a relative in Copenhagen, Lea Gleitman came to Sweden and Malmö, where she remained for the rest of her life.

Since mom had survived, she felt it was her duty to tell about the Nazis' atrocities and ensure that her family would not be forgotten, says daughter Barbro Posner to the newspaper.

She also had a lifelong commitment to Jewish issues.

She was a Zionist by conviction – since she had experienced Nazi barbarism on her own body, and lost almost her entire family, she understood the importance of Israel, says the daughter.

Lea Gleitman became 100 years old.

Corrected: In an earlier version of the text, an incorrect statement about Lea Gleitman's family appeared.

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