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Mordechai Papirblat giving a lecture at a school in 2015
Photo: Lichtgut / IMAGO
Mordechai Papirblat is dead. The 99-year-old survivor of the Shoah died on Tuesday, according to the memorial website Papierblatt, which was named after him.
For years, the 99-year-old had informed German schools about the persecution of the Jews under the National Socialists and reported on his experiences in the extermination camp of the same name in the diary »900 days in Auschwitz«.
Papirblat was born in what is now Poland in 1923 and spent part of his childhood in Warsaw.
Later his family was resettled in the Warsaw ghetto.
However, Papirblat managed to escape from there.
From July 1942 he was finally imprisoned in Auschwitz.
Papirblat described his own name as a »monument« – he was the only bearer of his name to survive the Nazi atrocities.
All of his relatives were wiped out in the concentration camps, according to the »Zeitschrift«.
“A century of history can be studied in his life as an example,” it says on the page.
The organizers of "papierblatt" paid tribute to the 99-year-old as a loving and humorous person "with a huge treasure trove of memories".
He last lived in Israel.
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