Contest in Israel awards 86-year-old “Holocaust Survivor Miss”

a great grandmother from 86 years old was crowned “Miss Holocaust Survivor” this Tuesday (16), in a contest from annual beauty israelense, created to honor women who suffered the horrors of genocide caused by the Nazis.

Fromz participants — one wayfroms between 79 and 90 years old — fromsfiled on the catwalk in a museum in Jerusalem, with hair and makeupin done and very goodin robed, with sashes adorning their dresses.

The organizers of contest, which was canceled last year because of pandinhe from coronavirus, saysin that he conceivesfrom glamor and respect for a decreasing number from Jewish women whose youthfroms were stolen during World War II, but that followed in forward to build new lives in Israel.

“Fromfor from what I went through in the Holocaust, I never dreamed that it couldfromlaugh to be wherefrom i am, with a bigfrom family: two children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren,” said participant Kuka Palmon, who survived a pogrom in her native Romania.

“And yet, here I am, on this great trip.from, 87 years old. It’s a good thing, it’s infromwriteable.”

A winner fromThis tuesday, Salina Steinfeld was also born in Romania, onfrom survived Nazi attacks before from move to Israel in 1948. Enter as dinhe participants was a woman born in the former Yugoslavia who survived the countryside. from Rab concentration in present-day Croatia.

Some critics and survivors tinin that the event can fromprecious I haveinhistory of the 6 million from jufromus killed by the Nazis.

Dana Papo, whose grandmother Rivka competed on Tuesday, disputes that view, arguing that the contestants “deservein let everyone see how beautiful there is in these women who have gone through so much horror”.

“Let’s show them how much we love and appreciate them. Thanks to them, tinthe one future etinthe one country.”