Last of the Warsaw ghetto survivors: 98-year-old Holocaust survivor dies Israel today

Holocaust survivor, one of the last survivors of the Warsaw ghetto, Shalom Stamberg (98) passed away today (Tuesday).

He volunteered for the Yad Ezer LaHever organization and was a darling of the city of Haifa.

His funeral will take place in the evening in the Haifa Cemetery.

Following the death, Yad Ezer LaHever said: "The association bows its head with the death of our friend, Shalom Stamberg, who survived five concentration camps, including Dachau, Buchenwald and Auschwitz, when he was only 16 years old."

Shimon Sabag, founder and CEO of Yad Ezer LaHever, added: "A personal friend of mine and a brother dear to me for many years, who was both a darling of the city of Haifa and a darling of the city of Beit She'an, passed away.

He himself established the first cinema in the city and the Hapoel Beit She'an football team.

A man who has always donated and bestowed.

Stamberg volunteered for many years for the Yad Ezer LaHever organization and was a lecturer for students and delegations from abroad.

In his lectures, he spoke about his heroic and courageous survival of the Auschwitz extermination camp. "

Sabag recalled and concluded: "Yad Ezer LaHever celebrated a bar mitzvah for him in Israel, after being robbed by the Nazis during the Holocaust."