Leopold Engleitner

Leopold Engleitner
Leopold Engleitner being interviewed during "Unbroken Will", 1999
Born(1905-07-23)23 July 1905
Aigen-Voglhub, Austria
Died21 April 2013(2013-04-21) (aged 107)
St. Wolfgang im Salzkammergut, Austria
Occupation(s)Farmhand, Roadman, Holocaust lecturer
Known forWorld's oldest known male Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück concentration camp survivor

Leopold Engleitner (23 July 1905 – 21 April 2013) was an Austrian conscientious objector, as one of Jehovah's Witnesses, and a concentration camp survivor who spoke publicly and with students about his experiences. He was the subject of the documentary Unbroken Will. Before his death, Engleitner was the world's oldest known male Buchenwald, Niederhagen and Ravensbrück concentration camp survivor and the oldest male Austrian.

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