‘They are in the same state I was in’: Holocaust survivors ‘hurt and angered’ by latest hostage videos

"When I saw the pictures of the hostages, they are in the same state I was in 80 years ago — near death."

Naftaly Furst survived the extermination camps and death marches (Image: N12 News)[Missing Credit]

Furst recounted meeting Eli Sharabi, who was released in February after 491 days in captivity, at an Auschwitz remembrance event. Furst said he was in the same situation for 1,033 days but insisted you can't compare the two.

He said: "Not only does it hurt me, it makes me very angry that we are not doing enough to save them. Something big needs to be done like a general strike."

Batya Rapoport was a child in the Warsaw Ghetto (Image: N12 News)[Missing Credit]

Likewise, Batya Rapoport, 86, who lived through the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw as a child, said: "Every moment can change your fate. I know what it feels like to have the world against you."

"We were liberated in Poland and freed by two Russian soldiers. They knocked on the door opened it and said 'you're free'.

"If they came a week later, there would have been no one left to save."

"For the hostages no one came knocking on their door. We must bring them all back, then we can move on."

A total of 50 hostages remain in Gaza, though only 20 are thought to be alive, according to Israeli intelligence assessments.