Mel Mermelstein

Mel Mermelstein
Born
Moric Mermelstein

(1926-09-22)September 22, 1926
Örösveg, Czechoslovakia (now part of Ukraine, near Munkacs)
DiedJanuary 28, 2022(2022-01-28) (aged 95)
Long Beach, California, United States

Melvin Mermelstein (born Moric Mermelstein; September 25, 1926 – January 28, 2022) was a Czechoslovak-born American Holocaust survivor and autobiographer. A Jew, he was the sole survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz concentration camp.

He is best known for his litigation with the Institute for Historical Review over evidence of gas chambers in German concentration camps during World War II. The legal dispute was resolved in Mermelstein's favor, without the court giving an opinion on the merits of the dispute, since it ruled that the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz is a legally indisputable fact.[1]

  1. ^ "California Judge Rules Holocaust Did Happen". The New York Times. Associated Press. October 10, 1981. p. A26. Retrieved November 20, 2010.