70% of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be gone in the next 10 years, a report shows
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Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive, but according to a study 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years. Currently, the survivors’ median age is 87 and more than 1,400 of them are over 100 years old.
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Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive, but according to a study 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years. Currently, the survivors’ median age is 87 and more than 1,400 of them are over 100 years old.
BERLIN (AP) — Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive but 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years — meaning time is running out to hear the voices of the last generation who suffered through one of the worst atrocities in history.
