page_title: Shimson Kleuger
section_title: Later life in Oświęcim
hierarchical_section_title: Shimson Kleuger / Later life in Oświęcim
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Дом Шимона Клугера - последнего еврея Освенцима
context_page_description: Shimson Kleuger was the last Jew to live in the town of Oświęcim in Poland. He became known as "The Last Jew in Auschwitz".
context_section_description: Kleuger returned to Oświęcim in 1961, to find all the other Jews had left for America or Israel. Klueger took up residence in his family home and became a recluse, never venturing out. The townspeople left him food in a bowl outside the house.
  ... Shimshon Klueger had become a recluse, living in a hovel from which he never emerged, next to the abandoned synagogue.
  It seems that Kleuger was not quite a complete recluse. In his 1994 book, From Oswiecim to Auschwitz, Moshe Weiss writes of a meeting with him:
  Upon leaving the death camp at Auschwitz/Birkenau, I stopped in the town to visit Shimek Kluger, the last remaining Jew in Oświęcim. He offered me refreshments and an hour of gentle conversation, in which he reiterated his hope to leave Poland soon and join his brother and his family in Brooklyn, New York. Before departing, I presented him with a talit, a mezuzah, and two yarmulkes.
caption: Kluger's house in Oświęcim
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