Mel Mermelstein
Hungarian-born Jewish Holocaust survivor (1926–2022) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Melvin Mermelstein (born Moric Mermelstein; September 25, 1926 – January 28, 2022) was a Czechoslovak-born American Holocaust survivor and autobiographer. A Jew, he was the sole survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Born | Moric Mermelstein (1926-09-22)September 22, 1926 |
Died | January 28, 2022(2022-01-28) (aged 95) Long Beach, California, United States |
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He is best known for his litigation with the Institute for Historical Review over evidence of gas chambers in German concentration camps during World War II. The legal dispute was resolved in Mermelstein's favor, without the court giving an opinion on the merits of the dispute, since it ruled that the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz is a legally indisputable fact. [1]