Yankele ‘Alex’ Gross: The story of an unknown Czechoslovak Holocaust survivor

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In July 2025, Yankele Gross (later known as Alex), an unknown Czechoslovak Holocaust survivor and Korean War veteran, died in the United States. He suffered through a death march and the camps of Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Yankele Gross was born on September 18th 1928, in Palanok, a suburb of Mukachevo in Transcarpathia, at that time part of Czechoslovakia.

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