She spent the later years of her life warning of the re-emergence of far-right populism and discrimination against minorities across Europe
Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, a Holocaust survivor who spent the later years of her life warning of the re-emergence of far-right populism and discrimination against minorities across Europe, has died aged 97.
Ms Fahidi-Pusztai was born in 1925 in Debrecen, Hungary, into an upper middle-class Jewish family. Her family converted to Catholicism in 1936 but that did not shield them from persecution. In June 1944, the Jewish population was rounded up in a brick factory and deported to the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp in several transports.
Six million European Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany and its henchmen across Europe during the Holocaust — including 49 members of Ms Fahidi-Pusztai’s family, Germany’s news agency dpa reported. She was the only one who survived. “It was only many years after her liberation, that Eva Fahidi began to speak about her memories of the murder of her family and her existence as a slave labourer,” Christoph Heubner, executive vice president of the International Auschwitz Committee, said in Berlin.
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