WATCH: Holocaust survivors celebrate long-awaited bar/bat mitzvah at Western Wall

45 Holocaust survivors who reached the bar or bat mitzvah age of 13 during or immediately after the Second World War celebrated the event for the first time Monday at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest site. This video clip shows the men, who put on Tefillin and read from the Torah, while the women held a seperate ceremony at the Western Wall Tunnels Hall.

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