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 on outgoing figure who, for most of his life, knew little about of 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, Poland. They were among some 263,000 of the Jews...
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