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Mermelstein, Mel, 1926-2022

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Personal name headingMermelstein, Mel, 1926-2022
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Birth date1926-09-25
Death date2022-01-28
Place of birthMukacheve (Ukraine)
Place of deathLong Beach (Calif.)
Profession or occupationHolocaust survivors Authors
Found inHis By bread alone, c1979: t.p. (Mel Mermelstein) p. vii (Melvin Mermelstein; b. 9-25-26, as Moric Mermelstein, in Hungary; emig. to U.S. in 1946)
New York times WWW site, February 8, 2022 (in obituary dated February 1, 2022: Mel Mermelstein, Holocaust Survivor Who Sued Deniers, Dies at 95; born Moric Mermelstein on September 25, 1926, in Mukachevo, then in Czechoslovakia, died on Friday (January 28, 2022) at his home in Long Beach, California; he changed his name to Melvin when he came to the United States; uschwitz survivor who, by calling the bluff of self-proclaimed World War II historical revisionists, won a formal apology, $90,000 and a judge's affirmation that the Holocaust indisputably happened)