A 93-year-old woman was crowned 2018’s “Miss Holocaust Survivor” on Sunday, winning the Israel-based beauty contest for survivors of World War II’s Nazi Holocaust.
Great-grandmother Tova Ringer beat 12 other contestants to top the pageant, Reuters reported. Ringer was born in Poland and now lives in Haifa, the city where the annual event is based. She lost her parents, four sisters and a grandmother in the Auschwitz death camp, Reuters said.
“I’m very happy. It’s something special,” the new Miss Holocaust Survivor said, after donning her silver tiara and a blue-and-white sash. “I wouldn’t believe that at my age I would be a beauty.”
According to The Times of Israel, runners up included Rita Kasimow Brown, 85, Madeleine Schwartz, 74, and Tamara Weitzman, 81. It said “thousands” of people attended the event. Reuters reported that the youngest contestant, aged 74, was still working as a teacher.
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