Bondi terror victim Marika Pogany was ‘mensch’ award-winner for delivering 12,000 kosher meals

Tributes have poured in for Holocaust survivor Marika Pogany who was fatally shot during the Sydney terror attack on the first night of Chanukah.

The 82-year-old grandmother was well known in the community having won the 2019 “Mensch Award”, handed out by New South Wales charity the Jewish Communal Appeal, for delivering in excess of 12,000 kosher “Meals on Wheels” over a period of more than 20 years.

Pogany was an avid volunteer and a member of Sydney's Harbour View Bridge Club, according to Australian paper the Sydney Morning Herald.

"She was a terrific person, [an] excellent bridge player and an even better friend. Incredibly loyal," the club's director, Matt Mullamphy – who counted Pogany as a friend of  40 years – told the paper.