(JTA) — Josef “Joe” Veselsky, a Holocaust survivor and table tennis champion who spent more than a year as Ireland’s oldest man, died on Saturday at 107.

Slovak president pays tribute to Josef Veselsky at his funeral in Dublin in remarks delivered by the country’s ambassador ...

Following the end of the war in 1945, Veselsky became the secretary to a minister in the Czech government, but fled the ...

Josef ‘Joe’ Veselsky, who fled Czechoslovakia in 1948 after surviving the war, was Trinity’s oldest student in his 90s ...

Former captain of the Irish and Czechoslovakian table tennis teams immigrated to Ireland in 1949, after spending the war ...

The grandson of Holocaust survivor Josef Veselsky, who was reputed to be Ireland's oldest man, has said he will be remembered ...

Veselsky fled his homeland in the late 1940s. Having spent the war with the resistance in the Carpathians, he found out his parents and older brother had been murdered in Auschwitz. As the Soviets ...

Tributes are pouring in for Ireland's eldest man, a Holocaust survivor and table tennis champion, following his death at the ...

Holocaust survivor and table tennis champion Josef Veselsky passed away peacefully at the age of 107 over the weekend ...

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is deeply saddened by the passing of Josef “Joe” Veselsky (1918–2026), who died on 3 January, aged 107. Born in Slovakia, then Czechoslovakia, Veselsky ...

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