Cycowicz was born in 1927 in Czechoslovakia. In 1944, she endured five months in Birkenau concentration camp with her sister, before being transferred to a forced labour camp in one of the subcamps of Gross-Rosen.
After the ceremony, Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan remarked, “[Biden] had a warm and emotional conversation with the two Holocaust survivors in attendance. He was extremely interested in both of their stories and even shared his own personal pain which he experienced during his life. The President admired and identified with their choice to rebuild their lives in spite of what they experienced and lost”.
Diplomatic advisor Yair Zivan tweeted, “An incredibly powerful moment at the end of the memorial ceremony at Yad Vashem as Biden gest down on one knee to speak to two Holocaust survivors”.
Biden attended the memorial with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
