Holocaust survivor hailed

NOACH FLUG, a tireless advocate for the rights of Holocaust survivors, has died in Jerusalem, aged 86.

Flug “worked day and night in Israel and around the world for the good of his fellow survivors,” said Uri Arazi of the Centre of Organisations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel.

“He was a man of integrity and a leader.”

Born in Poland in 1925, Flug was deported from the Lodz ghetto, where he was a part of the anti-Nazi underground, to Auschwitz in August 1944. Nearly all his family was killed at that camp, but he managed to survive it and two other concentration camps.

In 1958 he emigrated to Israel, working as an economist and a diplomat.

But it was as a champion of Holocaust survivors in their fight for reparations that he left his greatest mark.