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103-year-old man who survived 1918 pandemic and Holocaust receives COVID-19 vaccine – FOX 8 Live WVUE

Emil Hopner not only lived through the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 – he survived the Holocaust and fled from Hitler.

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SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) A 103-year-old man who survived the Spanish flu has received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Emil Hopner not only lived through the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 he survived the Holocaust and fled from Hitler.
Born in Croatia, he lost 30 relatives, including his parents, in the Holocaust.
Hopner was able to escape to Switzerland and then later came to the U.S., where he worked for IBM for many years.
At the mass vaccination site at Levis Stadium in Santa…

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