Richard Schifter, Holocaust survivor and US diplomat, dies at 97
Schifter was born in Vienna to Polish parents. At the age of 15, he received a visa to go to the United States. The rest of his family died at the hands of the Nazis.
Holocaust survivor Jacques Innedjian wears a tallit and tefillin as he celebrates his bar mitzvah at the Western Wall.(photo credit: REOUVEN FITOUSSI)ByMARCY OSTER/JTA
