Holocaust survivor Yulia Zalmanovich, 86 - set up off Israel's nationwide Holocaust Day siren

Holocaust survivor Yulia Zalmanovich, 86, was invited Thursday to a Home Front Command base, where she set off the Holocaust Memorial Day siren nationwide The invitation was an initiative of the soldiers who serve at the Home Front Command's National Alert HQ, which sets off Israel's national sirens on Holocaust Memorial Day and IDF Fallen Soldiers' Remembrance Day, as well as on drills and in case of war. Zalmanovich was born in Mukachevo, Ukraine. She has an older sister and two younger brothers. She and her sister survived Auschwitz and learned, after the war, that the rest of their family had been murdered. Yulia married in Mukachevo and the new family made aliyah from Ukraine to Israel in the early 1970s.



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