World’s Oldest Survivor of Auschwitz Dies at 108

USA Today reports that Antoni Dobrowolski, the oldest survivor of Auschwitz, has died at the age of 108. Dobrowolski worked in an underground effort to continue to teach children lessons in defiance. He was caught by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz in 1942. Dobrowolski died in northwestern Poland on Sunday, according to a spokesperson at the Auschwitz-Birkenau state museum. 

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