At 98, he says his "duty to the dead" is to bear witness about what happened to him. My family did not," Schwarzbaum told AFP in an interview in his elegant apartment on the outskirts of Berlin. Schwarzbaum in 2016 holds up a photo of his uncle and his parents, all three who lost their lives in Auschwitz. He shields his eyes from the sun with a wrinkled hand as he remembers the actions of the SS paramilitaries who ruled Auschwitz. 'I did not know whom I could tell'Schwarzbaum, who is Jewish, grew up in Bedzin, a town some 60 kilometresfrom Auschwitz.

Source: The Local December 05, 2019 15:45 UTC