BERLIN (AP) — Eva Fahidi-Pusztai, a Holocaust survivor who spent the last years of her life warning of the re-emergence of far-right populism and discrimination against minorities across Europe , is dead. She was 97 years old.
The International Auschwitz Committee said Fahidi-Pusztai died Monday in Budapest. The cause of death was not given.
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