One of the victims of Sunday’s deadly terror attack on a Hanukkah celebration in Australia has been identified as a Holocaust survivor who was killed while shielding his wife from bullets, she revealed.
Alex Kleytman had travelled to Sydney’s world-famous Bondi Beach with his wife of 57 years, Larissa, for the Hanukkah event, when two terrorists opened fire .
“We were standing and suddenly came the ‘boom boom,’ and everybody fell down,” Larissa told the Australian newspaper .
“At this moment he [Alex] was behind me and at one moment he decided to go close to me. He pushed his body up because he wanted to stay near me,” she said.
Larissa’s relatives said Alex was shot and killed as he lay on the ground on top of his wife, saving her life in his final act.
“His body is still ther

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