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Joseph Zalman Kleinman, a Holocaust survivor who survived the Auschwitz death camp and testified against Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi commander s trial in Jerusalem, died today, Israeli media reported. He was 91. Holocaust survivor Joseph Zalman Kleinman preparing to receive his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 in Jerusalem. Source: Associated Press
The cause of death was not immediately released. Kleinman was one of fewer than 180,000 remaining Holocaust survivors in Israel.
Kleinman was born in Slovakia in January 1930 and was deported by Nazi Germany to the camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau at the age of 14. His father, mother and sister were killed at Auschwitz, one of the most notorious Nazi death camps in occupied Poland.
Auschwitz survivor who testified against Adolf Eichmann dies at 91
Holocaust survivor Joseph Zalman Kleinman prepares for his second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in January 2021.
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Joseph Zalman Kleinman, who survived the Auschwitz death camp during the Holocaust and testified against Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi commander’s trial in Jerusalem, died Tuesday, Israeli media reported. He was 91.
The cause of death was not immediately released. Kleinman was one of fewer than 180,000 remaining Holocaust survivors in Israel.
Kleinman was born in Slovakia in January 1930 and was deported by Nazi Germany to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau when he was 14. His parents and sister were killed at Auschwitz, one of the most notorious Nazi death camps in occupied Poland.
Joseph Zalman Kleinman, Holocaust survivor who testified against Nazi commander Adolf Eichmann, dies at 91
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Joseph Zalman Kleinman, a Holocaust survivor who survived the Auschwitz death camp and testified against Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi commander s trial in Jerusalem, died Tuesday, Israeli media reported. He was 91.
The cause of death was not immediately released. Kleinman was one of fewer than 180,000 remaining Holocaust survivors in Israel.
Joseph Zalman Kleinman, a Holocaust survivor, rides in an elevator on his way to get his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19, at the Clalit Health Services vaccination center at a sports arena in Jerusalem, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021.
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Joseph Zalman Kleinman, a Holocaust survivor who survived the Auschwitz death camp and testified against Adolf Eichmann in the Nazi commander’s trial in Jerusalem, died Tuesday, Israeli media reported. He was 91.
The cause of death was not immediately released. Kleinman was one of fewer than 180,000 remaining Holocaust survivors in Israel.
Kleinman was born in Slovakia in January 1930 and was deported by Nazi Germany to the camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau at the age of 14. His father, mother and sister were killed at Auschwitz, one of the most notorious Nazi death camps in occupied Poland.
“In the summer of 1944, 3,000 young men aged 14 to 16 were gathered at Auschwitz . in tough conditions, acute starvation. We were there the whole summer and then at the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur and Simchat Torah (Jewish high holidays), nearly everyone was exterminated,” he said.
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“In the summer of 1944, 3,000 young men aged 14 to 16 were gathered at Auschwitz . in tough conditions, acute starvation. We were there the whole summer and then at the Jewish New Year and Yom Kippur and Simchat Torah (Jewish high holidays), nearly everyone was exterminated,” he said.
Eichmann, one of Nazi Germany’s main organizers of the Holocaust, was captured by Israeli Mossad agents outside Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1960. He was put on trial in Jerusalem in 1961 and found guilty of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and war crimes. He was executed the following year.