An elderly Holocaust survivor was badly beaten last November in the back of a public transport vehicle, according to a report.

Montreal resident Hanka Fogelman, 92, called for a cab operated by Société de transport de Montréal (STM), a transit service provided by the city for individuals with physical and mental disabilities. En route to visit her daughter, she shared the vehicle with a woman, who sat in the passenger seat, and her eventual attacker, a man who sat with her in the back.

The driver immediately warned Fogelman about the male passenger, saying he was “aggressive” and could be dangerous, according to CBC.

Minutes into the ride, the man attacked Fogelman.

“He started hitting me. Punching me,” Fogelman said. “The blood started coming out from my nose. I didn’t know what to do.”

The driver said that the man hadn’t said a single word to her, and things escalated “without any apparent reason.” He had been writing quietly on a piece of paper before the unprovoked attack, and he was doing a crossword puzzle when officers arrived, seemingly unaware that he had done anything wrong.

A Montreal police spokesperson told CBC the assailant has an intellectual disability and won’t be charged with a crime.

“I feel angry. I feel shocked,” Fogelman’s daughter, Debbie Rona, told CBC. “I look at my mother and she’s so mentally aware, but there’s physical vulnerability there. Why was he even in the taxi? Why would the taxi driver have sat my mother next to him and closed the door and started driving?”

The incident is far from Fogelman’s first brush with trauma. A Jewish woman born in Poland, Fogelman was 13 years old when her hometown went under German occupation in the late 1930s. She was sent to live in a ghetto and her father and twin sister were executed.

Fogelman did forced labor at a German factory sewing uniforms for soldiers, then was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and later Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She was liberated on her 19th birthday in April 1945, then emigrated to Canada after briefly living in Sweden.

Coincidentally, Fogelman’s husband, Léon Besnos, was also a victim of a violent assault by a stranger in 1986. In that incident, Besnos drove his car through a puddle and splashed a couple in their late 30s. The man opened Besnos’ car door and began to beat him, and while trying to escape, he crashed into two other vehicles and suffered a heart attack. He died shortly after arriving at a hospital.

In the weeks since the attack, Fogelman’s bruises and lacerations have started to heal — but she is still recovering mentally.

“I’m still not feeling strong … it’s in my mind,” Fogelman told CBC. “You know, what I went through … I’m thinking, why did it happen? You know. It shouldn’t have happened.”

“She is shaken up and traumatized inside,” Rona added in an email to The Post. “[She] has flashbacks of the assault. She was supposed to be in a safe government STM transport.”

Laura Tamblyn Watts, an advocate for elderly Canadians, admonished the STM, calling the incident a “failure of the entire system.” She claims the publicly run service often puts costs ahead of safety.

Another STM driver, who asked not to be identified for fear of losing his job, acknowledged flaws in the public transport system, saying drivers are not trained on how to deal with violent passengers. And while incidents are rare, he feels they are unprepared to handle the ones that do occur.

“According to the STM, they are not transporting people who are violent — is it 100 percent true? Definitely not,” the driver told CBC.