(Jewish Group) David Mermelstein, Holocaust survivor, longtime advocate for restitution, dies at 92
David Mermelstein started a group for Holocaust survivors in the Miami area in the 1950s simply because it was so hard communicating with others — even fellow Jews — about the horrors they had experienced.
Like so many other survivors, as he aged, Mermelstein overcame his reluctance to speak about it and made communication his forte, whether it was speaking to schoolchildren about World War II or forcefully testifying before Congress to extract what he believed to be more equitable restitution for survivors.
Mermelstein died on Tuesday at 92, said Sam Dubbin, the lawyer who frequently represented Mermelstein’s groups in efforts to get restitution.
Mermelstein described the foundations of the Holocaust Survivors of Miami-Dade County, a group which he led as president, in an undated letter Dubbin provided to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
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This makes the third prominent Holocaust survivor to pass this week. Hopefully, their stories will live own and drown out the anti-Semitic propaganda droning on from all sides.
May his memory be eternal.
