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Sunday, December 14, 2025
Another victim of Sydney attack identified as Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman
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Alex Kleytman, a Holocaust survivor and native of Ukraine, has been identified as another one of the victims of the massacre at at Hanukkah event in Sydney, Australia.
His wife, Larisa Kleytman, told The Australian news outlet that he “came on Bondi Beach to celebrate Hanukkah, for us it was always a very, very good celebration, for many, many years.”
The husband of Larissa Kleytman, a grandmother who was celebrating Chanukah, was shot in the #bondibeach attack. She was very distraught coming out of St Vincent’s hospital in Sydney with friends & relatives saying he was killed next to her #Australia pic.twitter.com/ZdFactbO1d
— Farid Y. Farid (@FaridYFarid) December 14, 2025
She told the news outlet that “we were standing and suddenly came the ‘boom boom,’ and everybody fell down. At this moment he was behind me and at one moment he decided to go close to me. He pushed his body up because he wanted to stay near me.”
According to the Daily Mail, the couple have two children and 11 grandchildren.
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