Photo by Getty Images Mel Mermelstein recalls the horrors he experienced as a prisoner of the Aushwitz concentration camp in 1944. LOS ANGELES (JTA) — Mel Mermelstein, a Holocaust survivor who won a five-year court battle forcing a right-wing Holocaust-denying organization to retract its claim and pay hefty damages, died Jan. 28 at the age of 95 from complications of COVID-19. Weeks later, tributes to Mermelstein are continuing to arrive at the family home in Long Beach, California, a testament to the public impact of his legal war with antisemites. Born in a Jewish enclave in Mukachero, then part of...
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