1. Judah Samet was a Hungarian-American businessman, speaker, and Holocaust survivor.
18 Facts About Judah Samet
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Judah Samet later moved to Canada and then to the United States.
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Judah Samet was a jeweler and speaker in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Judah Samet was born in Debrecen, Hungary on February 5,1938, to an Orthodox Jewish family.
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Judah Samet's parents owned and managed two knitting factories and had four children: two sons, Moshe and Yakove, both older than Judah, and the youngest, a daughter, Henyah.
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Judah Samet was with his family in a train going to the Auschwitz concentration camp, but it was rerouted to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after Czechoslovak partisans reportedly destroyed train tracks.
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Judah Samet's mother told him to eat lice, which had infected the camp.
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Judah Samet worked as a teacher and managed two towns for the government of Israel.
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Judah Samet met a teacher from Pittsburgh, Barbara, whom he later married and with whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth.
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From 2011, Judah Samet gave public speeches about his life at high schools, universities, and churches.
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Judah Samet said that he was "energized" by the positive reception of his speeches.
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Judah Samet was four or five minutes late to the service because he had been delayed by his housekeeper.
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US President Donald Trump invited Judah Samet to be one of his personal guests at the 2019 State of the Union Address, which Trump gave on February 5,2019.
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Judah Samet visited the White House and met President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, First Daughter Ivanka Trump, and Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner.
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Judah Samet smiled, blew a kiss, waved down to Trump, stood up, bowed his head, and shouted "thank you".
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Judah Samet was not wearing his kippah at the Address because a government employee had told him "nobody wears a hat here" upon entering the House Chamber.
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Judah Samet later said that he admired Trump and called him a "working man".
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Judah Samet died from complications of stomach cancer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 27,2022, at the age of 84.