Josef Veselsky, a Holocaust survivor, twice national table tennis captain and Ireland’s oldest man, has died at 107 years old. Born Josef Weiss in 1918 in Trnava, a city in present-day Slovakia, Veselsky immigrated with his wife, Katarina, to Dublin, Ireland, in 1949, following the communist coup d’état in his home country, The Irish Times reported. His parents, brother, and sister-in-law had been killed during the Holocaust after being deported to the Auschwitz death camp. After watching his loved ones being forced into a cattle car, Veselsky escaped the same fate by changing his last name and joining the Czech...
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