Boy Who Fled Nazi Germany at Age 7 Receives Federal Order of Merit from German President

[Guno צְבִי]

Holocaust survivor George Shefi, who fled Germany at age seven on the Kindertransport following the “Kristallnacht” nationwide pogrom in 1938, was awarded the Federal Order of Merit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The honor was presented by the German Ambassador to Israel, Steffen Seibert, during an emotional ceremony at the Ambassador’s residence in Herzliya last Friday. The event preceded International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year marks 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Four generations of Shefi’s family attended, along with Revital Yakin Krakovsky, Deputy CEO of the International March of the Living organization.

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Boy Who Fled Nazi Germany at Age 7 Receives Federal Order of Merit from German President

“Germany wants to thank you for choosing, despite your childhood trauma, to share your story with students, sports clubs, and parliaments to foster reconciliation and understanding."

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[anonymoose]

And?

 

[Hawkeye10]

And?

Medals are not what they used to be.

Just look at some of those passed out at the White House recently for example.