Judah Samet ( ; born 5 February 1938 ) is a businessman , speaker , and Holocaust survivor . At the age of six , he and his family were taken from Debrecen , Hungary , to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , where they spent eleven months . After the Second World War the family immigrated to Israel , where he subsequently served in the Israel Defense Forces and worked as a teacher . He later moved to Canada and then to the United States . In 2018 , he was a witness to and survivor of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting . He is a jeweler and speaker in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Judah Samet