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Charles Egosi, concentration camp survivor, dies

An undated photo of Charles Egosi of Sag

Photo credit: handout | An undated photo of Charles Egosi of Sag Harbor.

Charles Egosi, who survived the horror of a Nazi concentration camp and then went on to help found the state of Israel and become an architect on Long Island, has died at his Sag Harbor home.

Egosi died of Parkinson's disease Oct. 11. He was 83.

Born in Poland in 1929, Egosi and his family moved to Paris when he was 7 years old. After the Nazis seized the French capital in June 1940,...

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