An 86-year-old great-grandmother was crowned “Miss Holocaust Survivor” on Tuesday in an annual Israeli beauty pageant designed to honour women who survived the horrors of the Nazi genocide. Ten contestants ranging in age from 79 to 90 trod the catwalk in Jerusalem, their hair styled and make-up applied and dressed to the nines with sashes adorning their gowns. Organisers of the contest say it bestows glamour and respect on a dwindling number of Jewish women whose youth was stolen during the Second World Warbut who went on to build new lives in Israel. The pageant was cancelled last year because...
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