Claude Bloch, last French survivor of Auschwitz camp, dies aged 95

Claude Bloch, centre, right, who was deported when he was a child, at a ceremony at the WWII Montluc prison, outside Lyon with President Emmanuel Macron, 8 May 2023. © Laurent Cipriani/AP

The last survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp living in Lyon, died Sunday aged 95, the city's mayor said. He paid tribute to Claude Bloch’s commitment to passing down the memory of the Holocaust to future generations.

“A survivor of Auschwitz, he was a transmitter of memories to young generations throughout his life,” Lyon mayor Gregory Doucet wrote on social media platform X.