Victor Perahia, Holocaust survivor and president of French Union of Auschwitz Deportees, dies at 91

PARIS (AP) — Victor Perahia, the president of the French Union of Auschwitz Deportees and a Holocaust survivor, has died. He was 91.

Perahia, who was deported as a child to the Nazi death camp of Bergen-Belsen, died on Monday in the eastern Paris suburb of Saint-Mande, the Union of Auschwitz Deportees said in a statement. The cause of death wasn't disclosed.

The union hailed Perahia, as “one of its eminent figures, who worked with great humanity and determination to preserve the memory of the Shoah” for other generations.

As a child survivor of the Holocaust, the ever present “racism and antisemitism tormented him and fueled his strength to awaken minds,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in a statement.