BERLIN (AP) — Albrecht Weinberg, who survived several Nazi concentration and death camps and lost most of his family in the Holocaust before returning to Germany in his 80s, has died at the age of 101, authorities in his home region said Tuesday.
Weinberg died in Leer, in northwestern Germany, weeks after he marked his birthday and the premiere of a film about his life, “Es ist immer in meinem Kopf” (“It is always in my head”), attended by hundreds of guests, the city said in a statement.
“Since returning from New York to his East Frisian home 14 years ago, Albrecht recounted tirelessly and with incredible energy his terrible experiences during the Nazi era and warned again and again against forgetting,” Mayor Claus-Peter Horst said.
Weinberg, who was born in Rhauderfehn, near Leer, on March 7, 1925, survived incarceration at the Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen camps as well as three death marches at the end of World War II. He spent years teaching high school students and others about the atrocities he had to live through.
Speaking last year, Weinberg said the memories of his wartime experiences still haunted him. “I sleep with it, I wake up with it, I sweat, I have nightmares; that is my present,” he said.
He said he worried what would happen when he was no longer around to bear witness.
“When my generation is not in this world anymore, when we disappear from the world, then the next generation can only read it out of the book,” he said.
Weinberg was awarded Germany's Order of Merit in 2017 but handed it back last year in protest at a parliamentary vote in which a motion put forward by Friedrich Merz, now the country's chancellor, calling for many more migrants to be turned back at Germany's borders passed with the help of a far-right party.
Israel's ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, said in a post on X that he had got to know Weinberg well and paid tribute to him as “a bridge — between past and present, between pain and hope, between the dead he could never forget and the young people whom he encouraged to seek the truth.”
FILE - Albrecht Weinberg, one of the last survivors of the Holocaust, sits in the Leer town hall in Leer, Germany, March 5, 2025. (Hauke-Christian Dittrich/dpa via AP, File)
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Residents of the Cite Soleil neighborhood in Haiti's capital protested Tuesday, demanding government protection after gang violence forced hundreds of people to flee their homes over the weekend.
Roselaine Jean-Pierre, 67, was among two dozen people who gathered at an intersection in Cite Soleil holding tree branches and demanding that police intervene in the area, even as gunshots were ringing nearby.
“I did not do anything to deserve this,” said Jean-Pierre, who fled her home on Sunday, and is now sleeping in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Some of the protesters said they saw people getting killed over the weekend in Cite Soleil, where burned cars and dead cows could also be observed. Haitian authorities have not released any information on casualties.
“I know of seven people that have been killed and also people that have been shot,” said Michel-Ange Toussaint, who had returned briefly to her home in Cite Soleil to gather some clothes.
She said the attacks on civilians began Sunday around 6 p.m., prompting many people to flee the area in search of safety. “It is our good feet that saved us,” Toussaint said.
Gangs have overtaken Port-au-Prince since the assassination of President Jovenal Moïse in July 2021 at his home. Police say they control about 70% of the capital — down from 90% — and have expanded their activities — including looting, kidnapping, sexual assaults and rape — into the countryside. Haiti has not had a president since the assassination.
In a statement released Monday, the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders announced the evacuation of its hospital in Cite Soleil following the intense clashes Sunday.
The Centre Hospitalier de Fontaine, another hospital that operates in Cite Soleil, said on Tuesday that it had also suspended operations due to the outbreak of violence that began Sunday, and had to evacuate all of its hospitalized patients, including 11 newborns.
In April, the first foreign troops linked to a U.N. force arrived in Haiti to help quell ongoing violence.
The U.N. Security Council in late September approved a plan to authorize a 5,550-member force, which has not fully arrived in the island nation. An unknown number of troops from Chad have so far been deployed.
A report published earlier this year by the International Organization for Migration found that gang violence has displaced more than 1.4 million people in Haiti, with approximately 200,000 of them now living in crowded and underfunded sites in the nation’s capital.
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Residents of Cité Soleil celebrate the arrival of armored police vehicles during a protest to demand that police officers go and fight the gangs that control their neighborhood, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
A woman leaves her home to escape clashes between armed gangs in the Cité Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Vehicles that were set on fire by armed gangs sit in the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
A resident of Cité Soleil kneels before a police armored vehicle and demands that the police go and fight the gangs that control their neighborhood, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Residents of Cité Soleil celebrate the arrival of armored police vehicles during a protest to demand that police officers go and fight the gangs that control their neighborhood, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, May 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Residents flee their homes to escape clashes between armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
People displaced from their homes due to clashes between armed gangs take refuge at a police station in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Residents flee their homes to escape clashes between armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
