Ahead of the International Holocaust Memorial day, new data shows that 52,551 Holocaust survivor refugees immigrated to Israel in the past three decades, out of which over 500 have come to Israeli shores this past year. According to the data offered by the Israeli Ministry of Immigration, 182 of them are from Morocco, 7 are from Iraq and there is even one immigrant from China during the past few decades.
The Minister of Immigration and Absorption, Knesset Member Ofir Sofer, said in a statement that "in the shadow of the war between Russia and Ukraine, more than 500 Holocaust survivors immigrated to Israel [in 2022]."
International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed every year on January 27, the date on which the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated from the Nazis by the Soviets, in 1945; three years before the establishment of the state of Israel. The data presented was made possible through collaboration with the Israeli Authority for the Rights of Holocaust Survivors which recognized 52,551 immigrants as survivors of the Holocaust; all of whom receive compensation as survivors in accordance with Israeli law.
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Rescue & Recovery have been the only org rescuing Holocaust Survivors and Wounded refugees from the front lines, giving medical care in our Medical Center in Moldova. Today the moment of happiness is happening for some, they are coming home pic.twitter.com/RdweXRyCgC
In 2022, during the "Coming Home" operation, about 75 thousand refugees immigrated from Ukraine, Russia, and its surroundings, of which 552 were Holocaust survivors. The largest number of Holocaust survivors came in 1990 when 8,596 Holocaust survivors arrived as the Soviet Union was falling apart. After that, in 1991, the wave of immigration from the former Soviet Union brought about 7,670 Holocaust survivors. The year in which the lowest number of Holocaust survivor immigrants was recorded in 2020, the year of the pandemic when only 150 Holocaust survivors immigrated.
Another Israeli rescue plane brought Holocaust survivors from the Ukraine to Israel last night. It was the 7th rescue flight. Among the passengers was Yelena, a 98-year-old Holocaust survivor who stayed at the medical facility in Kishinev and go to Shavuot meal. pic.twitter.com/oFXiaE9FED
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The Minister of Immigration and Absorption, MK Ofir Sofer, said that "International Holocaust Day is an opportunity to remind the entire world of the atrocities that took place in Europe just 80 years ago. This day allows us to instill in our youth the memory of the Holocaust, and to tell the story of the heroism of the survivors who live by our side in the State of Israel."
The minister welcomed "the activity for the well-being of tens of thousands of Holocaust survivor immigrants who are entitled to housing, benefits, and assistance.ā The International Fellowship of Jews and Christians was a key element in aiding the entire process of immigration for the hundreds of Holocaust survivors who fled the horrors of war once again.
