Nazi concentration camp survivor, 90, found strangled

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A 90-year-old Holocaust 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, escaped death for a year while he was in the Nazis' Mauthausen, Ebensee and Auschwitz concentration 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 that his wife, who had also been shipped to Auschwitz, was alive and well in Poland.

The Brinkmanns immigrated to America, where Felix spent years in the bar and nightclub business, co-founding in 1971 Adam's Apple disco in Manhattan.

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Brinkmann's body was found lying face down in his bedroom, his hands bound, his body showing blunt-force trauma wounds, police said. Brinkmann's blue 2009 Honda Civic may have been stolen and a safe in his apartment tampered with, police said.


Felix Brinkmann dances at a 2008 party marking his 90th birthday.

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/31/holocaust.survivor/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

We live in a world where very bad things happen to good people.

I could call this ironic, but it's just tragic.

Hopefully knowing they are together, in whatever realm, brings some peace to the family. How horrendously tragic.

...what kind of sick fuck does this to a 90-year-old man? I hope he's at peace.

:cry:

:(