Joseph Alexander, who just turned 100, travels to schools and museums across the state recalling his experiences of surviving the Holocaust. He’s even been immortalized in Steven Spielberg’s 1996 documentary, “Survivors of The Holocaust.”
The Los Angeles resident recently spoke in front of a crowd of over 200, at Newport Beach’s Chabad Center for Jewish Life, detailing the atrocities of his birthplace—Poland—being invaded in 1939 by the Nazis, his time in concentration camps, being sent to Auschwitz, and ultimately being saved by U.S. troops a day before his scheduled execution.
“I still don’t know if anyone in my family survived. As far as I know, I am the only one,” Alexander said….