Kiss star Gene Simmons has opened up about his mother’s release from a Nazi concentration camp after her official papers were unearthed in Germany.
Bild reporters obtained the documents and recently showed them to the rock star 75 years after American troops liberated the Mauthausen camp on 5 May, 1945 – three days before the official end of World War II.
Gene’s mother, Flora Klein, was the only member of her family to survive at the camp. She died in 2018, aged 93. “She was strong,” he says. “She fought all of this on her own… If somebody says that all of this was in the past – that’s not true.
It was yesterday. It all happened just now.” The documents also featured a victim impact statement Klein wrote, revealing she and her family
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