Ireland's Oldest Man, a Holocaust Survivor, Marks 80th Anniversary of Liberation

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Ireland's Oldest Man, a Holocaust Survivor, Marks 80th Anniversary of Liberation
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Joe Veselsky, Ireland's oldest man, will mark the 80th anniversary of his liberation from Auschwitz on Monday. He survived the horrors of the Holocaust and later fled Czechoslovakia for Ireland, where he built a successful life.

Joe Veselsky was born in 1918 in an empire that no longer exists and will live out his days in a country that did not exist when he was born.

His parents and only sibling, Hugo, and Hugo’s wife, perished in Auschwitz. The 80th anniversary of his liberation happens on Monday. Mr Veselsky survived with the help of friends. He spent the last two years of the war in the Carpathian mountains fighting with the Slovak resistance against the Nazis.

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