Eliezer (Eli) Zborowski, a Holocaust survivor who made it his mission in life to ensure that the memory of the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis would never be forgotten, died Monday from cardiac arrest at the age of 86 in Queens, New York.
Zborowski founded the American and International Societies for Yad Vashem in 1953, a year after he arrived in the United States as a penniless Jewish immigrant from Poland with little knowledge of the English language.
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