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Holocaust survivor, activist Kurt Julius Goldstein dies at 93
By The Associated Press
Tags: Holocaust survivor, obituary 

Kurt Julius Goldstein, who survived the Auschwitz death camp and went on to play a prominent role in fighting racism and anti-Semitism, has died, the International Auschwitz Committee said Tuesday. He was 93.

Goldstein died in Berlin on Monday following a brief illness, the committee, of which he was an honorary chairman, said in a statement. It did not elaborate.

Born into a Jewish merchant family in 1914, Goldstein later joined Germany's Communist Party and was forced out of the country when the Nazis came to power in 1933.
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He fled to Palestine, then went to fight in an international brigade in the Spanish Civil War. When that war ended in 1939, Goldstein was arrested; he was later handed to the Nazis, who sent him to the Auschwitz death camp in occupied Poland.

At a 2005 event marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Goldstein recalled being forced onto a 1945 death march as the Red Army advanced.

He was one of fewer than 500 prisoners out of 3,000 to arrive at the Buchenwald concentration camp in central Germany.

"Auschwitz is the biggest cemetery in the whole world," Goldstein said in a speech. None of them has a memorial stone - the Nazis wanted them to be forgotten. We have a duty to prevent that.

After World War II, Goldstein settled in communist East Germany, where he worked until 1978 as the director of a leading public broadcaster.

During those years he also worked for the International Auschwitz Committee, maintaining contact with survivors on both sides of the Iron Curtain and reaching out to young people.

In 2005, Goldstein was awarded Germany's highest honor, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, in recognition of his role in promoting tolerance and fighting racism and anti-Semitism.

He is survived by his wife, Margo, and several children. There was no immediate information on funeral arrangements
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