Coronavirus kills survivor Auschwitz

(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 26 - He had survived the horror of Auschwitz but was cut short by the coronavirus. Henri Kichka died at 94 in a nursing home in Brussels. He had spoken to the BBC last January about his experience in the Nazi concentration camp, calling him "death itself". In an attribute to his father on Facebook, his son Michel wrote: "A microscopic virus has succeeded where an entire Nazi army has failed". Born in Brussels in 1926, to a Jewish family of Polish origin, Henri had been deported after the occupation of Belgion in 1942. After the war, for the next four years he did not talk about his experience in Auschwitz, he married, had four children, nine grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. But over time he decided to go to schools to tell about the Holocaust to keep the memory alive. And 60 years later he published a memoir of his life in the concentration camp.