HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR AND rights activist Noach Flug died in Jerusalem last night. He was 86.

An advocate for Holocaust survivors, Flug fought for governments to compensate the aging population of survivors.

Announcing his death, a spokesman for the Centre of Organisations of Holocaust Survivors called him a man of integrity and a leader.

He worked “day and night in Israel and around the world for the good of his fellow survivors”, added Uri Arazi.

Anti-Nazi movement

Nearly all of Flug’s family were killed at the Auschwitz death camp but he managed to not only survive it but also two other concentration camps.

Before being deported to Auschwitz in 1944, the Polish-born teenager was a member of the anti-Nazi underground.

He moved to Israel in 1958 and worked as an economist. He also took on diplomatic roles.

Holocaust work
Flug held leading positions on the Jewish Claims Conference, the World Jewish Restitution Organisation, the International Auschwitz Committee and the Israeli Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem.

He also served as chairman of the Centre of Organisations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, lobbying the government successfully for larger stipends for survivors.

In 2006, Germany awarded him the country’s Grand Cross of the Order of Merit for his “decades-long work on behalf of survivors of the Holocaust and his tireless efforts to promote understanding between Jews and non-Jews and between Israel and Germany.”