Holocaust Survivor and Former Disco Owner Beaten and Strangled to Death in New York City
Update: 2025-11-18
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The source provides a comprehensive account of the life and brutal 2009 murder of Felix Brinkmann, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor and former New York City nightlife figure. The episode details Brinkmann's extraordinary resilience, tracing his survival of several Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and his subsequent success as the co-founder of the 1970s disco Adam's Apple. In his final years, he was tragically tortured and killed in his Upper East Side apartment by opportunistic thieves, who were seeking the contents of his safe but failed to obtain the combination due to his unyielding refusal to cooperate. The material covers the investigation that led to the arrest and conviction of Angela Murray and the Cutts brothers, emphasizing the outrage over the violent end of a man who had already defied genocide. Brinkmann's story is presented as a reminder of the persistence of human cruelty and the remarkable strength of the human spirit.
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