Running Low On Survivors, Local Jews Switches To Holocaust 'Refugees'

San Francisco CA

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Quoting from the Northern California Jewish Weekly, our source for everything pathetic: This Holocaust refugee was on death’s doorstep. But with the help of his daughter, he beat Covid-19 against all odds. Vitali Voskoboinik’s bright blue eyes sparkled behind his glasses as he sat in his sunny Pacifica apartment. At 79, the Holocaust refugee looked full of life; he laughed and smiled, introducing himself first in Russian, then in Hebrew, and then in English. One would never guess that just a few months ago he was bedridden, unable to breathe independently or speak, and on the brink of death from a severe case of Covid-19. “To me, this is a miracle,” said Lena Asadov, who helped care for Voskoboinik as administrator of South San Francisco’s Angel Palliative Care and Hospice, Inc. Asadov said when she had last seen him, Voskoboinik could barely sit on the edge of his bed without collapsing, his body and lungs extremely weakened from months of illness. On July 26, he stood to greet her, and he later walked down to the garden of his home at Terrace Senior Housing — two accomplishments that no one was sure he would be able to achieve. While Voskoboinik is not yet able to resume his two-mile walks to the Pacifica pier, he has made a remarkable recovery — a feat Asadov credits to Voskoboinik’s fighting spirit and his daughter’s perseverance. Voskoboinik was born in 1941, on a train headed to Uzbekistan as his mother was escaping Nazi-occupied Ukraine. He never met his soldier father and only knew him through a series of letters his parents exchanged before his father was killed in the war. Voskoboinik grew up in the Soviet Union, where he met his wife, and together they moved to Israel. They lived there for 20 years before coming to America in 2014. Yes, we are running low on Holocaust SURVIVORS, so, prepare yourself for the next chapter in our never-ending attempt to make people feel sorry for us... announcing "HOLOCAUST REFUGEES(tm)". Please! This man was born on a train in Uzbekistan. Won't you PLEASE give him a stipend, so he can live wherever he wants, in luxury? And his family, too? The trauma of being born on a train is intergenerational, you know! We don't want God to get mad at us. We'd better pay up!