‘We must be strong’: the words of Holocaust survivor and Bondi terror victim Alex Kleytman live on

A portrait of Alex Kleytman and his wife, Larisa Kleytman. Photograph: Veda Kucko

On the 75th anniversary of the Holocaust, Alex Kleytman took to social media to remember his mother, who was a prisoner of the Pechora camp in Ukraine when she was just 16 years old.

“The purpose of this camp was not to kill, but to make people die of hunger and hard labor,” he wrote in January 2020. “She managed to survive. Her memories can be heard in Yad Vashem [the Holocaust memorial in Israel].”