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They went to the Western Wall to celebrate late-life Bat Mitzvah ceremonies. It is not a competition of outward beauty, but one in which each competitor says, ‘I was in Lodz, I managed to survive and raise a family, I volunteer, I feel that I vanquished the Nazis and I’m alive and kicking.’ It gives them a drive for life.”Īhead of the pageant itself, competitors were primped and spoiled for an entire week, with wardrobe, hair, and makeup specialists in attendance. “It seemed odd, women in their 80s and 90s, but I came to realize that they could do it no less than a girl of 18. “Initially I had trouble swallowing it,” Sabag says. Greenberg suggested that dressing up and putting on makeup could give the elderly survivors a boost-and the idea of a beauty competition was born. “She felt that her childhood stopped at that moment,” Sabag recalled. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Sabag described one day in 2009 when, sitting in the institution’s dining room, Shoshana Kolmer told the psychiatrist Isabella Greenberg that, aged 15, she’d been about to compete in her school’s annual beauty pageant when the Nazis invaded her native Hungary and took her to Auschwitz. The Miss Holocaust Survivor event has been running locally on and off since 2009, according to Shimon Sabag, founder and CEO of Yad Ezer l’Haver. Last June, he warned that Israel was likely to lose the support of American evangelicals if it allowed “rabid dogs” Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid-now the country’s prime minister and foreign minister-to “crucify” Netanyahu. It is funded by evangelical Trump super fan Mike Evans, whose Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem hosted the gala, and who presented the award to the winner.Įvans is best known for his fanatical support of former President Donald Trump and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The event was organized by Yad Ezer l’Haver, a Haifa-based charity that provides care and lodging for Holocaust survivors. Online voters were asked to rate each of the women out of ten with a clickable yellow star. The will take place in the Avondale College Theatre - 51 Victor Street, Avondale, Auckland.In the days leading up to the Tuesday pageant, Israel’s official government press office circulated an announcement stating that for the first time, “the public in Israel and around the world will be able to take part in selecting the beauty queen to be crowned Miss Holocaust Survivor.” The founder and National Director, Collette Lochore, who is the current Miss New Zealand will crown the winners. The winner of Division A will travel to South America to represent New Zealand on the international stage! On the final, the girls will have the chance to show off what they have learnt and a winner will be crowned! The girls learn a range of skills and tools to assist them in life and in the competition. The 2 month lead up to the final involves the 23 official contestants training each Saturday with top NZ tutors. They are both run by The New Zealand Asia Pacific Trust. Miss Junior New Zealand is the ‘junior version’ of Miss World New Zealand, the most prestigious pageant in New Zealand.