Albrecht Weinberg, a survivor of multiple Nazi concentration and death camps, has died at the age of 101, according to the Associated Press. Born in 1925 in Rhauderfehn, he passed away in Leer, near his birthplace in northwest Germany, just weeks after the premiere of a film about his life titled 'It is always in my head'.

Weinberg endured Auschwitz, Mittelbau-Dora, Bergen-Belsen, and several death marches during the Second World War. Despite losing much of his family in the Holocaust, he returned from New York to Germany 14 years ago, dedicating his later years to educating young people about the atrocities he experienced and warning against forgetting the past.

Local and international leaders paid tribute to his lifelong commitment to remembrance and dialogue. Weinberg often spoke about the burden of memory and his fear that, once survivors like him were gone, future generations would only learn about the Holocaust through books. In 2017 he received Germany's Order of Merit, which he later returned in protest of new migration policies backed by a right-wing party.