Noach Flug

Noach Flug was born in 1925 in Łódź

Flug was born in Łódź, Poland, to Rywka and Icek Flug. During World War II he lived in the Łódź Ghetto and was moved to Auschwitz in 1944. He was later sent to the Gross-Rosen camp and was freed by Allied forces near the end of the war.

After the war he returned to Poland. He finished high school in Łódź and studied economics in Warsaw. He married Dorota Tugendreich, a pediatrician, and they had 2 daughters.

In 1958 he moved to Israel with his family. He worked in the civil service, first at the Ministry of Finance and later as a financial adviser to the Knesset Finance Committee and to the Israeli embassy in Bonn. He also served as Israel's consul in Zürich.

In 1987 he helped found an organization for Holocaust survivors, and in 1994 he helped found a welfare fund for them. After retiring he served as president of the International Auschwitz Committee, vice president of the Claims Conference and a member of the Yad Vashem executive board. He chaired the Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel and was reelected in June 2011.

In 2006 Germany awarded him the Commander's Cross of its Order of Merit. His daughter Karnit Flug later served as governor of the Bank of Israel. He died in Jerusalem on 11 August 2011.