Nazi concentration camp survivor found strangled

By Jason Kessler
CNN

NEW YORK (CNN) - A 90-year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor was found strangled Thursday in his Upper East Side apartment, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner said Friday.

Felix Brinkmann, a native of Latvia, was a Holocaust survivor who escaped death for a year while he was in the Mauthausen, Ebensee and Auschwitz camps. Five times he had been slated for the gas chambers, but each time he used his fluency in German to talk his way out.

After the war ended, he was stunned to discover his wife, who had also been shipped to Auschwitz, alive and well in Poland.