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[Irish news]
Holocaust survivor, jeweller and table tennis maestro: Ireland's oldest
man dies aged 107
Josef 'Joe' Veselsky, who fled Czechoslovakia in 1948 after surviving the
war, was Trinity's oldest student in his 90s
The death has taken place of Josef Veselsky, a Holocaust survivor born in
the former Czechoslovakia who established a successful jewellery business
in Dublin and became Ireland's oldest man. He was 107.
Veselsky was an outgoing figure who, for most of his life, knew little
about the killing of his parents, brother and sister-in-law after the
German invasion. He saw his parents pushed into a cattle truck but it was
only in his 80s that he learned the exact detail of their deportation to
the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland. They
were among some 263,000 of the Jews of Czechoslovakia murdered by Nazis
and collaborators.
"Later in life he said he thought about his parents and brother every day.
He never really knew what happened," said his grandson Nicholas Brown
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