Like many Israelis on Holocaust Remembrance Day, actress Gal Gadot took to Instagram on Wednesday to share her own experience as a granddaughter to a Holocaust survivor.
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Gadot, in a lengthy post on the social network, noted how her grandfather Abraham Weiss – born as Adolf Weiss, in what was then Czechoslovakia – miraculously survived the brutality of the war and the Nazis even after losing his family and being sent to a death camp.
"His father was drafted into the army and never returned, and so his mother was left with two young boys, Abraham, my grandpa, and Benjamin," Gadot wrote. "After a long journey on the train to Auschwitz, being squeezed together with an inhuman amount of people in a railroad car, he was separated for the last time from his mother and younger brother. In what is called 'the selection'. He never saw them again."
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She explained that at 13, he literally had to fight each day to avoid death. "The sights he saw, the horrors he went through are unimaginable," she wrote. "For years he didn't talk about it, only after my grandma passed he realized how short life is and how important it is to tell the story so history will never repeat itself. " She then concluded her post with: "NO ONE, should ever be oppressed or persecuted for their race, religion or for any reason. That's my take on life. My grandpa's legacy lives deep in my heart."
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