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Monsey, New York – Joseph Neumann, a devoted father of seven children, grandfather, and great grandfather, who was brutally maimed in an anti-Semitic attack in Monsey, New York in December, has succumbed to his wounds, his family confirmed Sunday. His funeral was held the next day.

Nuemann, 72, held on for months in a comatose-state. His injuries included a fractured skull and a brain injury that completely paralyzed the right side of his body.

The attack occurred on Hannukah as congregants gathered in celebration at their rabbi’s home. The perpetrator, Grafton Thomas, entered the celebration and began striking the Jewish people with a machete.

Despite the level of brutality, the attack didn’t result in any immediate deaths and at one point, eight weeks after the gruesome attack, Neumann, who suffered the most life threatening injuries, had starting showing signs of the miracle his family had hoped for and had opened his eyes, his family told this reporter in an exclusive interview.

I sat with his daughter Nicky Kohen in February, who shared the news with me. The report from the hospital was that he had regained movement in his left hand, which was sliced through, and was “somewhat tracking.” He was also partially breathing over his respirator.

Neumann’s family had earlier told the public, “Doctors are not optimistic about his chances to regain consciousness, and if our father does miraculously recover partially, doctors expect that he will have permanent damage to the brain; leaving him partially paralyzed and speech-impaired for the rest of his life.”

In total, Neumann suffered three cuts to the head, one to the neck, and a shattered arm, the family said. Doctors didn’t think he would survive one night in the hospital, his daughter told me.

“I do think it’s a miracle now,” she said at the time. “Obviously, we’re praying for a full miracle. I told my sister the other day ‘obviously I’m telling people should pray that he can walk and run around again and that’s what I’m praying for.’ Now, do I think it’s realistic, do I know what the doctor said, I know what they said.”

“I’m hoping, I’m hoping that obviously, when he’s fully awake, God willing, he’ll be able to understand us and communicate with us cause if he doesn’t that would scare me the most if he can understand us, but not communicate,” she added.

“There can be mundane miracles and there can be exponential miracles, so you can pray for the really huge ones and you’ll be fine if they’re just the smaller ones because even the fact that he survived the night, like really his brains were hanging out, the knife went through not just his skull, but his whole brain multiple times,” she added, describing the horror of that night.

“It was all shattered, it was really surprising,” Kohen said. “The doctors told us ‘there are people who come in younger, healthier, and in better condition and they go much faster.’ So right now, obviously, we’re really thankful that he’s alive and that he’s fighting and that people are praying and, I mean, we beg that they continue to pray until we see a full recovery.”

At the time, Kohen said she believed it was her father’s ‘strong will’ that was the reason for his survival. In fact, during the attack, Neumann used his cane to fight off the attacker.

Neumann was then taken out of the Intensive Care Unit and was showing small steps of recovery and his doctors were “baffled.”

The devastating news of Neumann’s death comes short of justice being served in the case of the anti-Semitic attacker, who’s charged with five counts of attempted murder and hate crimes.

According to reports, the Rockland district attorney plans to increase the charges against Thomas to second degree murder and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he plans to name the state’s domestic terrorism “The Josef Neumann Law.” However, Thomas’s attorney is using an alleged history of mental illness to claim that he’s unfit to withstand a trial in order to protect his client.