Sri Lanka’s Last Holocaust Survivor Finds Peace in Coastal Town An 83-year-old Dutch Jewish survivor reflects on his tumultuous childhood—hidden during the war—the trauma of reuniting with his emotionally scarred mother, and the tranquil life he built in the seaside town of Negombo By Avi Kumar/The Media Line A Holocaust survivor named Dr. Hans Vischjager […]
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Sri Lanka’s Last Holocaust Survivor Finds Peace in Coastal Town
An 83-year-old Dutch Jewish survivor reflects on his tumultuous childhood—hidden during the war—the trauma of reuniting with his emotionally scarred mother, and the tranquil life he built in the seaside town of Negombo
By Avi Kumar/The Media Line
A Holocaust survivor named Dr. Hans Vischjager resides in Negombo, a seaside Catholic town in Buddhist Sri Lanka. As a child of Dutch Sephardic descent, he was hidden during the Holocaust. Walking into Vischjager’s home today, one first notices a wooden sign in Hebrew and English, saying, “Shalom” that sits alongside Sri Lankan furniture, Catholic icons, and what is unmistakably an Australian boomerang.
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