Nazi concentration camp survivor,90, found strangled

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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor was found strangled Thursday in his Upper East Side apartment, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner said Friday.

Felix Brinkmann dances at a 2008 party marking his 90th birthday.

Felix Brinkmann, a native of Latvia, escaped death for a year while he was in the Nazis' Mauthausen, Ebensee and Auschwitz concentration camps. Five times he had been slated for the gas chambers, but each time he used his fluency in German to talk his way out.

After the war ended, he was stunned to discover that his wife, who had also been shipped to Auschwitz, was alive and well in Poland.

The Brinkmanns immigrated to America, where Felix spent years in the bar and nightclub business, co-founding in 1971 Adam's Apple disco in Manhattan.

In recent years, he had served as the real estate manager of a mixed-use building in the Bronx, working "seven days a week, without fail," said his son Rick Brinkman, who spells his last name differently than his father.

On Thursday, the building's superintendent grew concerned when Brinkmann did not show up to work. He notified Brinkmann's son and received permission to enter the father's apartment, where he had lived alone since his wife died last year.

Brinkmann's body was found lying face down in his bedroom, his hands bound, his body showing blunt-force trauma wounds, police said. Brinkmann's blue 2009 Honda Civic may have been stolen and a safe in his apartment tampered with, police said.

A police spokesman said authorities were looking for "a man and a woman" in connection with the homicide.

Rick Brinkman speculated that the killing was random in nature. "Anybody who knew him really liked him," the son said. "He was not the kind of guy who had enemies."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/31/holoca...ivor/index.html

Edited August 3, 2009 by looking_up

[Ban Hammer 15,090]

survived a nazi death camp, didn't survive living in nyc.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Sad, terrible and just wrong.

[scandal 951]

There is an arrest.

Alav Hashalom

Bronx woman arrested in murder of high-profile Holocaust survivor Guido Felix Brinkmann

By Alison Gendar

DAILY NEWS POLICE BUREAU CHIEF

Monday, August 3rd 2009, 8:18 AM

Felix Brinkman, who was discovered bound and beaten last week in his East Side apartment, is pictured at his 90th birthday last year.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2...arrest_in_.html

A Bronx woman was arrested in the murder of a Holocaust survivor found strangled and beaten in his East Side apartment Thursday, police said.

Angela Murray, 30, was charged with murder and robbery in the death of Guido Felix Brinkmann, 90, as police sought her male companion in the crime.

The duo was seen by Brinkmann's doorman entering the elderly man's apartment Wednesday night.

Brinkmann, co-owner of the 1970s Manhattan hot spot Adam's Apple, and was known to frequent prostitutes, police sources said. He also managed a commercial building in the Bronx.

Brinkmann was discovered bound and beaten in his E. 65th Street apartment. The robbery team ransacked Brinkmann's apartment but were unable to force him to give up the combination for his home safe.

His attacker's stole his car, which was later recovered, and his credit cards, which were also traced.

Murray was arrested Saturday and is expected to be arraigned Monday

Edited August 3, 2009 by scandal

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What horrible people.

[almaty 19]

savages..sick and sad ending for this gentleman

[Chica Yeyé 41]

dude, that is fvcked up.

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survived a nazi death camp, didn't survive living in nyc.

[Ban Hammer 15,090]

survived a nazi death camp, didn't survive living in nyc.

be careful out there, gecko.

[Niels Bohr 72]

Poor guy! The feeling to discover his wife is alive was probably full of happiness and relief. I can imagine that he doesn't take life for granted. Probably why he became very successfull.

RIP!