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Holocaust survivor Zilli Schmidt dies
22/10/2022 10:31 AM | Click to read full article
Zilli Schmidt, a Holocaust survivor who was one of the last eyewitnesses of the German Nazi regime's atrocities committed against the Sinti and Roma communities, died on Friday at the age of 98 in the western German city of Mannheim.
She was an important witness in a 1988 trial against a former SS block supervisor at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp.
