Holocaust survivor Noah Klieger died in Israel at the age of 92, according to the International Auschwitz Committee. "With his language power and his combative philanthropy, he will miss us bitterly in the disputes of these months," said Vice President Christoph Heubner. "For us, the world has become a bit darker." Klieger was the Israeli vice-president of the committee, Heubner is deputy head of the whole organization.
According to the Auschwitz committee, Klieger was born in Strasbourg in 1926. As a member of a Jewish underground organization, he was arrested in Belgium at the age of 16 and deported to Auschwitz in 1943. He survived Auschwitz, too, because he announced himself to boxing fights, which was the camp commandant to entertain the SS guards between prisoners. In 1944, the SS drove him on a death march to Ravensbrück, where he was released on 29 April 1944. (A portrait of Klieger from 2015 can be read here)
Klieger later worked in Israel as a journalist. He reported on basketball, but also on trials against SS perpetrators. In January 2017, he spoke with his grandson Juval to the International Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust Victims at the United Nations in New York.