Tova Gutstein was 10 years old when the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto launched an uprising against the Nazis. Now 90, she'll be one of six survivors honored as a torch-lighter Monday night at Yad Vashem, on Israel's Holocaust Memorial Day.
Holocaust survivor Tova Gutstein, 90, who lived in the Warsaw Ghetto as a child, poses for a photo at her apartment in the city of Rishon Lezion, Israel, Sunday, April 9, 2023. Gutstein was a child when the Nazis put down the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Now 90, she is one of the few remaining survivors who witnessed that act of Jewish resistance against Nazi Germany as Israel marks the revolt's 80th anniversary on Holocaust Memorial Day.
Now 90, she is among the few remaining witnesses of the ghetto uprising — and a vanishing generation of Holocaust survivors — as Israel marks the 80th anniversary of a revolt that has shaped its national consciousness.
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