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Over half of Israel s Holocaust survivors require food handouts -- survey

20 shares Holocaust survivor Motti Liber, 88, receives care from a volunteer on the premises of the Yad Ezer L Haver foundation, which supports survivors of the Holocaust by providing them food as well as medical and psychological assistance, in Haifa on January 24, 2021. (Photo by Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP) Over half of the Holocaust survivors living in Israel require food handouts, with many saying they don’t have the funds to pay for essentials such as eyeglasses and hearing aids, a survey released Wednesday ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day has found. In a poll conducted by the Holocaust Survivors’ Welfare Fund, 51 percent of respondents said they relied on food given to them by various charities, with a third saying they were in “dire need” of the assistance.

Holocaust causing increased cancer, heart disease mortality in survivors - study

16 shares Holocaust survivors attend a ceremony at the Mishan elderly homes in Tel Aviv as Israel marks annual Holocaust Remembrance Day. May 4, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90) The harmful impact of the Holocaust on the health of those who survived it has been found to continue for decades afterward, causing increased mortality and raising the chances of heart disease and cancer, a Hebrew University study found. Researchers analyzed the death records of around 22,000 people, among them 5,042 survivors, living in Israel who were followed up from 1964 to 2016, then compared the mortality rates from cancer and heart disease among Holocaust survivors to those who did not suffer Nazi persecution.

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