Nazi Concentration Camp Survivor Found Strangled in New York

After escaping the gas showers five times, 90-year-old Felix Brinkman has been murdered in his New York apartment. Two people are wanted in connection with the strangling.

On Thursday, 90-year-old Felix Brinkmann was found strangled in his Upper East Side apartment, according to a New York City Medical Examiner spokesperson. The Latvian victim turned out to be a holocaust survivor who escaped death from the Nazis’ Mauthausen, Ebensee and Auschwitz concentration camps. Mr. Brinkman, while imprisoned in the camps, was scheduled to be gassed five times however, but he used his German linguistic skills to cheat death. After the war, he searched for his wife and was stunned that his significant other was alive and well in Poland. Three decades later, the Brinkmanns immigrated to the United States and co-founded a disco nightclub called ‘Adam’s Apple Disco’ in Manhattan. The apartment building’s superintendent had telephoned Richard Brinkman, Felix’s son, after Felix did not show up for work. He received permission to enter his apartment and found the Auschwitz prisoner lying face first on the ground in his bedroom with his hands bound. A police spokesperson said they were on the lookout for a man and a woman in connection with the murder. Richard Brinkmann believes this was a random murder because “anybody who knew him really liked him. He was not the kind of guy who had enemies.”