Josef Lewkowicz, a Holocaust survivor who became a world-acclaimed Nazi hunter, died on Dec. 26. He was 98 years old.
As a teenager, Lewkowicz was sent to the Płaszów camp outside Krakow in Nazi-occupied Poland at the beginning of World War II and the Holocaust. He would ultimately survive six camps in total while in captivity and was the sole survivor of his family.
After the end of the war, Lewkowicz worked with the U.S. military to track down and identify SS leaders who had disappeared.
His most notable case was bringing to justice his greatest tormentor, SS commandant Amon Goeth, the “Butcher of Płaszów.” Goeth, played by British actor Ralph Fiennes in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film “Schindler’s List,” was known for excessive and random brutality, even for a Nazi.
“I recognized him right away,” he told “The Current,” a current affairs program affiliated with CBC Radio One, in 2023. “I saw that murderer’s face. I knew it very, very well.” (more...)
Josef Lewkowicz, Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, dies at 98
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