Biographies of participants of 5th International Journalism Forum, featuring Yad Vashem, 2007 Prince of Asturias Award Laureate for Concord
PERLA BITTAN HAZAN Perla Hazan was born in Melilla, Spain in 1944 and is married to Mauricio Hazan, a Holocaust survivor. She has a degree in psychology and has spent twenty years teaching in Venezuela. Since 1999 she is the director of the Ibero-America, Spain and Portugal Desk of Yad Vashem´s Department of International Relations in Jerusalem. She also writes poetry and is the author of such works as The Voice of the Community and From my Nest, a book of short stories.
JAIME VÁNDOR KOPPEL Jaime Vandor was born Helmut Jacques Vandor in Vienna in 1933. During World War II he was confined, along with his family, to the ghetto in Budapest (Hungary), where he was rescued by Spanish diplomat Ángel Sanz Briz, who hid him in a safe house protected by the Spanish Embassy. Vandor has a doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from Barcelona University, where he has taught philosophy. He is an essayist and poet.
MAZALTOV BEHAR MORDOH Mazaltov Behar Mordoh was born in Salonica, Greece in 1925. She was deported along with his parents and her brother David to Auschwitz, where they all died except for her. During her imprisonment in the concentration camp, she was subjected to experimental surgeries by the medical team lead by Horst Schumann. Her arm bears the prisoner number 41577.
FELIX ZANDMAN Felix Zandman was born in Grodno, Poland in 1927. In 1942 almost all of his family was deported to the Treblinka extermination camp. He survived along with his maternal uncle, Sender Freydovicz, by hiding for 18 months in a pit dug in the bedroom of their rescuers, Janowa and Jan Puchalski, who were the caretakers of the family´s summer house and were later recognised as Righteous Among the Nations. Felix Zandman is a physicist and businessman, founder of Vishay Intertechnology, one of the leading companies in the semiconductor field.
ZYGMUNT ROTTER FLEISCHER Zygmunt Rotter was born in Niepolomice, Poland in 1920. In 1942 he saw for the last time his mother and his siblings, who died in the extermination camps. After having been assigned to forced labour in several centres, he was chosen along with 19 other men to work at a factory owned by a German called Oskar Schindler, thanks to whom Rotter, number 610 on the list, was able to survive the Holocaust, together with hundreds of other Jews. He returned to Krakow at the end of the war and later moved to Paris, where he married Anna Rzechte, another survivor. He lives in Venezuela since 1957.
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