Overview
- Orbach, whose death in Melbourne was reported Tuesday, was listed as 105 by VINnews and Israel National News, while Matzav reported 104.
- In March 1943, his brother Mordechai secured forged papers and a Polish police uniform that let him slip out of the Warsaw Ghetto just before the uprising.
- He spent the rest of the war in hiding, with Mordechai later captured and executed by the Gestapo.
- After the war he emigrated to Melbourne in 1947, built a knitting business, married Tova in 1955, and served for years as president of Caulfield Shul.
- His testimony is preserved in museum archives, and an August 2025 105th-birthday celebration drew letters from King Charles III and Australia’s prime minister.