Noah Klieger (Hebrew: נח קליגר; 31 July 1925 – 13 December 2018) was an Israeli journalist and sports administrator.
[1] After the start of WWII, when Belgium fell under Nazi occupation, 13-year-old Klieger helped found a Zionist youth underground organization.
Members of his group passed messages between adult underground cells, helped obtain ration stamps, and smuggled Belgian Jews to Switzerland.
[1] When the Red Army started closing on Auschwitz in January 1945, the remaining prisoners were transferred on foot to Germany.
There he succeeded in fooling the Germans for the second time by pretending to be a precision mechanics expert and was sent to the underground plant producing missiles.
[1] When Klieger learned about Aliyah Bet, an illegal immigration operation allowing European Jews to come to the Mandatory Palestine, he joined forces with the organizers.
In the 1948 Arab–Israeli War he took part in Operation Danny, then was included in the "French commando" squad and finally became a soldier of the Negev Brigade and fought in the South.
From 1957 he was a staff member of the mainstream daily Yedioth Ahronoth[1] for which he also wrote a personal column till the age of 90.
[4] In particular, he covered the trials of Adolf Eichmann and Ivan (John) Demjanjuk held in Israel, and frequently published pieces about Holocaust survivors.
[2] He continued taking part in the March of the Living, the annual international educational program dedicated to Holocaust history.