Overview
- Weintraub celebrates his 100th birthday on New Year's Day as one of the few remaining eyewitnesses still sharing testimony about Nazi crimes.
- In a new interview, he warned that the AfD means what it says and would carry out its agenda if given power.
- He called on voters to closely monitor those in office and to challenge any breach of human dignity to keep society free.
- Born in 1926 in Łódź, he was forced into the Litzmannstadt ghetto, deported to Auschwitz in 1944, escaped by slipping onto a labor transport, survived several camps, and was liberated near Donaueschingen.
- After studying medicine in Göttingen, he worked as a gynecologist in Poland before emigrating to Sweden in the late 1960s, and he has recently engaged lawmakers and the public through a 2024 visit to the Lower Saxony parliament, a 2025 Auschwitz commemoration address, and an open letter to Friedrich Merz.