Zoltan Matyash grew up in Czechoslovakia, the oldest of two boys and four girls. He was born a Kohan, part of a line of priests who in the Jewish tradition are responsible for transmitting God’s blessing to all people.
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This photo taken on April 8, 2013 shows a memory plaque stuck into a pile of pebbles on the barbed wired premisses of the KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, in Oswiecim, Poland.