A third of US Holocaust survivors live in poverty, Jewish orgs try to help
There are between 30,000 to 60,000 survivors who live in the United States. As survivors get older, the services offered are changing as well.
Holocaust survivor Judith Spielberger Mittelman, 96, who was among 999 Jewish women and girls transported from Slovakia to the Auschwitz concentration camp in one of the first two transportations of women to the camp, shows the numbers tattooed on her arm, March 29, 2022.(photo credit: REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR)Updated: