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Josef Veselsky, Holocaust survivor and table tennis master who was Ireland's oldest man, dies at 107

JL;DR SUMMARY Josef Veselsky, originally Josef Weiss, was a Holocaust survivor and renowned table tennis player who passed away at 107 in Ireland, where he was the country's oldest man. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustIrelandLongevityResistanceTable TennisJewelry BusinessTrinity College DublinJosef VeselskySlovak JewSlovak National Uprising

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Dublin, Ireland
"Josef Veselsky recieves an honorary degree from Trinity College Dublin in 2016."
Trnava, Slovakia
"Born Joseph Weiss to a Jewish family in Trnava in what was then Czechoslovakia in 1918,"
Slovakia
"He changed his name after his mother, Bertha, urged him to change his name to something a bit more Slovak,"

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