(Jewish Group) Dutch celebrity lawyer and Holocaust survivor Max Moszkowicz dies at 95
Max Moszkowicz, a Holocaust survivor who became the Netherlands’ first modern-day celebrity lawyer, has died at the age of 95.
Moszkowicz, a steel-willed Auschwitz survivor who returned to the Netherlands after World War II, is perhaps best remembered for his 1987 defense of the kidnappers of the beverage mogul Freddy Heineken.
Although the kidnappers were found guilty in a trial that was closely watched around the world, Moszkowicz managed in a stunning legal feat to obtain prison sentences of just four years for each of them.
Moszkowicz was born in Germany in 1926 and moved with his family to the Netherlands in 1933, after Hitler took power in his native country. Like the vast majority of Dutch Jews, his parents and two siblings were murdered during the Holocaust. He himself survived Auschwitz.
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