HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033534 On June 3, 2019, Semyon Rosenfeld, the last living Holocaust survivor who participated in the revolt and escape from the Sobibor death camp, died at the age of 97 in Israel. Rosenfeld joined the Red Army in 1940. While he was fighting the Germans, his family was killed by the Nazis. He was captured by the Germans in 1941 and, two years later, he was transferred to Sobibor. Rosenfeld escaped during the revolt and survived by hiding in the woods until 1944. He then rejoined the Red Army and participated in the capture of Berlin. Click here to read more... - Views on Israel of U.S. Presidential Candidates 2020: Joe Biden Former Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., was born November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the first of four siblings. In 1953, the Biden family moved from Pennsylvania to Claymont, Delaware. He graduated from the University of Delaware and Syracuse Law School. One of his first overseas visits as a senator was to Israel, on the eve of the 1973 Yom Kippur War during which he met GoIda Meir. "She read letters and told me how this young man or woman had died and this is their family. This went on for I don't know how long, and I guess she could tell I was visibly moved by this, and I was getting depressed about it." The Prime Minister said, "Senator, don't look so sad... .we have a secret weapon in our confrontation in this part of the world. And I thought she was about to lean over and tell me about a new system or something... .she said, our secret weapon, Senator, is we have no place else to go. We have no place else to go."