Jerusalem – Twenty Holocaust survivors belatedly celebrated their coming-of-age Monday in a moving Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall. The men had all turned 13 during the genocide of Europe’s Jews and were hard-pressed to survive, let alone celebrate.

According to Arutz 7, One survivor relayed that his coming of age had been marked in the Therensienstadt concentration camp. His mother managed to obtain a set of tefillin, and an elderly Jewish man spoke in Hebrew. “I was alone there,” he said. “Today, 80 years later, I have a bar mitzvah with my family.”

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