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. 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. “In the summer of 1944, 3,000 young men aged 14 to 16 were gathered at Auschwitz ... in tough conditions, acute starvation. He was put on trial in Jerusalem in 1961 and found guilty of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and war crimes.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 04, 2021 23:48 UTC