Henri Kichka, Belgian survivor of the Nazi extermination camps, died Saturday at the Brussels rest home where he was staying, defeated by the coronavirus at the age of 94, communicated his son Michel on Saturday evening on his blog and on the social media.
He was one of the last Belgian Holocaust survivors. Henri Kichka died Saturday evening at the age of 94. “A small microscopic Coronavirus succeeded where the whole Nazi army had failed”, said Michel Kichka, the son of Henri Kichka. Henri Kichka was born in Brussels in 1926 into a family of Polish immigrants who had fled anti-Semitic Poland in 1918. At only 14 years old, he had experienced the horrors of war in 1940. Deported, he found himself in the camps of Buchenwald, Sakrau, Blechhammer or even Gross-Rosen.
A survivor in 1945, he made his life a fight for the duty of memory. Henri Kichka has not stopped telling his ordeal since his release. In particular to pupils, to make them aware of this dark period of history. Her daughter, Irene, assured us this morning, she will continue her father’s work.
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