NYC Holocaust survivors react to horrifying images of released Israeli hostages, evoking painful memories: Warehouse of the living dead

They survived Hitler and the Holocaust – but these Jewish New Yorkers never imagined they’d witness images evoking the horrors they experienced 80 years after liberation.Aron Krell, a 97-year-old survivor of Auschwitz and other camps who was liberated nearly 80 years ago at 18, said the images of the three Israeli male hostages released from Hamas’s clutches looking weak and malnourished after 491 days in captivity, evoked painful memories.“You could have lifted me up with one finger,” Krell told The Post on Sunday of his own liberation as a “weak” and “feeble” survivor from the “warehouse of the living dead.”The chilling footage of the three released hostages, Or Levy, Ohad Ben Ami and Eli Sharabi, revealed their dangerously gaunt and hallowed features.For Krell, their photos brought rushing back painful memories of the darkest days of his life and moved him to tears.“When I saw their pictures coming out of captivity, they looked so emaciated and so sick,” he said.“And the world doesn’t care.

I can’t understand — where is the outrage?”“It breaks your heart to see how Jews are being treated today.And no one says a word,” blasted Krell, echoing the cries of Jews who took to social media to lambast the apparent apathy.“It’s a sorry sight to look at, and even sorrier we have to discuss it.

It evokes so many things when you think about it,” he added.“It brings back the memories you try to forget, but you can’t forget.”Another point of connection the Holocaust survivor shares with the liberated men is the bitter reality they came home to — as each improbably survived hell not knowing the fate of their loved ones.   Sign up for our Metro Daily newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.

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