The last survivors: growing old with memories of Auschwitz - Szmul Icek It may have been 75 years ago, but for this survivor of the Holocaust the memories of life and death in the Nazi death camp remain painfully fresh. Auschwitz survivor Szmul Icek, born in Poland in 1927, survived with two brothers while their parents and two sisters were killed in the Holocaust, and, in contrast to some survivors, he never returned to the camp after the war and avoids reading books on the subject. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES