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Holocaust survivor Shlomo Venezia dies

Shlomo Venezia, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp who came forward decades after the Holocaust with a rare eyewitness account of the inner workings of the gas chambers, where Nazis forced him to help shepherd thousands of other victims to their deaths, died Oct. 1 at his home in Rome. He was 88.

He had a respiratory ailment stemming from tuberculosis, which he contracted at the...

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