Auschwitz survivor who returned to live in Germany dies aged 101

Albrecht Weinberg, who survived a series of Nazi concentration and death camps and lost most of his family in the Holocaust before returning to Germany in his 80s, has died. Weinberg died in Leer, north-western Germany , weeks after his 101st birthday and the premiere of a film about his life, Es Ist Immer in Meinem Kopf (It Is Always in My Head). “Since returning from New York to his east Frisian home 14 years ago, Albrecht recounted tirelessly and with incredible energy his terrible experiences during the Nazi era and warned again and again against forgetting,” said Leer’s mayor, Claus-Peter Horst, on Tuesday. Weinberg, who was born in Rhauderfehn, near Leer, on 7 March 1925, survived incarceration at the Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen camps as well as three death marches at the end of the second world war. He spent years teaching high school students and others about the horrors he had lived through. Speaking last year, Weinberg said the memories of his wartime experiences still haunted him: “I sleep with it, I wake up with it, I sweat, I have nightmares, that is my present.” He said he worried what would happen when he was no longer around to bear witness. …