SARASOTA (Florida) - an old Sarasota man of 82 his held bar mitzvah - the ritual of the coming of age traditionally extended to Jewish boys on turn 13 - almost 70 years later.
Never, soil Laufer presents his bar mitzvah when he was a teenager in 1941, because the Nazis placed Laufer and his family in a Jewish ghetto during the second world war. He was later sent to concentration camp, where he survived on flour and watery soup and wood sawdust bread rations and became ill until the Soviets liberated the camp in 1945.
His entire family was killed in the Holocaust.
Saturday, Laufer sound will hold bar mitzvah Habad of Sarasota. He is a pensioner who founded a company of optical systems high-end.
The Lubavitcher rabbi, said that Laufer is the oldest initiation he never carried out.
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