BUDAPEST, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Hungary's oldest Holocaust survivor, Elemer Spiegler, died at age 106 on Wednesday night, according to local media reports.
Spiegler turned 106 on Aug. 24, 2018. His death has been confirmed by family members.
In 1944, Spiegler was deported by the Nazis to the Mauthausen concentration camp. He survived the death-camp and returned to Hungary in July 1945. He had to start over his whole life as he had lost his entire family.
He married Rozalia Weltlinger in March 1946, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, and also lost all of her family members. They had a daughter and a son together.
At the age of 101, he still read two newspapers on a daily basis, handled the DVD player, loved football, listened to operettas (a genre of light opera), and had an insatiable hunger for history books, according to the daily "Nyugat," that interviewed Spiegler in 2016, on his 104th birthday.
He said that the secret of his long life was to sleep well and have only a light dinner.
"He loved his belly and Hungarian food, but he was also a big fan of Chinese cuisine," according to "Nyugat."
