The World - News from May 4, 1989

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, his family’s only survivor of the Nazi Holocaust in World War II, has publicly revealed how they perished. A senior aide, Yossi Ahimier, said Shamir, 73, lifted the usual tight lid on his private life during a speech on Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. Shamir said that his father, Shlomo Ysernitzky, fled a Nazi death camp only to be killed in a village of his youth. His mother, Pearl, and a sister apparently died in death camps while the Nazis shot and killed another sister. Shamir moved to pre-statehood Palestine alone from his native Poland in 1935.