A certain Holocaust survivor has just recently reported to have passed away from COVID-19 just one day before the mark of the 75th anniversary of her liberation from the dreaded Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Margit Feldman passed away at age 90 on Tuesday in a certain New Jersey hospital, several weeks after she was reported to have contracted this contagious virus.
The New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy himself has paid tribute to Feldman on Thursday, remembering her as one of the prominent advocates for the Jewish causes and also Holocaust education within the state. According to the governor, Margit was able to give so much hope to everyone over the span of 90 years and "Her legacy is best captured in her work to ensure that the world never forgets the horrors of the Holocaust,"
The grieving family
Feldman's own husband Harvey, is still in the hospital battling the same COVID-19 which killed his wife. The couple's own son is a doctor that is currently serving on the front lines of this crisis. Feldman was born back in June 12, 1929 over in Hungary and has the exact same birth date as Anne Frank.
At a young age of 14, she was then transported to Auschwitz concentration camp that was located in Poland along with her two parents who were later on killed. Feldman was able to survive a whole series of concentration camps, where she endured labor and had a code 'AS23029 tattooed on her own arm.
She was then liberated from the Bergen Belsen camp located in northern Germany back in April 15, 1945. Soon after this event, Feldman then immigrated to the United States, but did not yet publicly discuss the trauma of being a Holocaust survivor right until she was asked to record her story by a certain high school student way back in the early 1990s.
The moment marked the turn in Feldman's life
The very moment she started opening up was the very moment that marked a turn in Feldman's life. She even spent the several following years over the last few decades of her life going around and sharing her story with schoolchildren in hopes of educating them about what the Holocaust was actually like.
Feldman even helped to pass a certain bill that mandated a Holocaust curriculum in the New Jersey public schools and has also published a book about her own personal experiences.
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The life of Margit Feldman has been a strong reminder of hope for 90 years and now that she was not able to survive the coronavirus, the residents of New Jersey are remembering her contribution to the world.
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