Holocaust Survivor Felix Brinkmann Found Strangled in NYC Apartment

Felix Brinkmann, who survived Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust, was found beaten and strangled in his Upper East Side apartment Thursday. Brinkmann, 90, was found by the apartment building’s superintendent lying face down in his bedroom with his hands bound. His body showed blunt force trauma wounds. There were no signs of forced entry.

Brinkmann’s blue 2009 Honda Civic was stolen and a safe in his apartment tampered with. His son Rick Brinkman, who spells his last name differently, feels the murder was random. “Anybody who knew him really liked him. He was not the kind of guy who had enemies,” he says.

Police are looking for a man and a woman in connection with the killing. No other details on the suspects were available.

Brinkmann survived the Nazis’s Mauthausen, Ebensee and Auschwitz concentration camps. He had been slated to die in the gas chambers five times, but each time escaped death by talking his way out.

After WWII ended, Brinkmann discovered that his wife had also survived the camps. They immigrated to America where Brinkmann opened bars and nightclubs. He later became a real estate manager.

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