On Sunday, Whiting, now 64, will meet seven other survivors of the Holocaust — all Hawai'i residents — being honored as part of the annual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Week by the Honolulu chapter of B'nai B'rith and the University of Hawai'i-Manoa's Hillel Jewish organization.
The eight have never met, but are being brought together to honor "the spirit of survival and defiance of the survivors," said B'nai B'rith board member Johanna Afshani. They are the only survivors the two organizations have been able to locate in Hawai'i.
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