September 14th, 2026 – Widawski survived Auschwitz and Nazi forced labor after losing his parents and three siblings, immigrated to Israel in 1950, and later spent decades restoring Jewish cemeteries in Poland, helping identify and mark more than 3,000 graves.
He lit a torch at Israel’s official Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in 2012 and described his revenge on the Nazis as the fact that they lost and Jews live free and strong in the State of Israel.
