Last Living Holocaust Survivor in El Paso Has Died

Last living Holocaust survivor in El Paso has died

EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) - A Holocaust survivor living in El Paso has passed away. Tibor Schaechner died Tuesday, Sept. 29, at the age of 98. He was surrounded by his family when he passed, according to El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center Jamie Flores. Schaechner was El Paso last living Holocaust survivor. Executive [...]

Tibor Schaechner, El Paso’s last living Holocaust survivor, dies at 98

Tibor Schaechner, El Paso’s last living survivor of the Holocaust during World War II, died Tuesday, Sept. 29, at age 98. “I would like to leave a message that I hope that the generation (that) will come after us will be not soft,” Schaechner said in an oral history for the El Paso Holocaust Museum and Study Center. “Whatever the future brings, you have to get up, get up and fight for your rights, whatever the consequences are. Don’t care about …