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(JEWISH GROUP) Josef Veselsky, Holocaust survivor and table tennis master who was Ireland's oldest man, dies at 107
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP!)Josef “Joe” Veselsky, a Holocaust survivor and table tennis champion who spent more than a year as Ireland’s oldest man, died on Saturday at 107.
Born Joseph Weiss to a Jewish family in Trnava in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1918, Veselsky was 20 when Hitler invaded the country. He changed his name after his mother, Bertha, urged him to change his name to “something a bit more Slovak,” according to the Irish Times.
Veselsky joined the resistance and survived the war in the Carpathian Mountains, according to Holocaust Education Ireland.
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Veselsky’s older brother and parents were killed in Auschwitz, but he did not learn the details of their fate until later in life, his grandson Nicholas Browne told the Irish public broadcaster RTÉ.
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