Josef Lewkowicz

Josef Lewkowicz (15 March 1926 – 26 December 2024) was a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter.

Holocaust Lewkowicz was born in a shtetl in southeast Poland in 1926. At the age of 13, he witnessed the Nazi occupation of Poland. By the time he was 16, he had been separated from his mother and siblings, whom he never saw again. Together with his father, Symcha, Lewkowicz was requisitioned for forced labor and entered the concentration camp system in 1942. His father later died at Auschwitz.

Lewkowicz was sent to the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp operated by the SS in Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków, in the General Governorate of German-occupied Poland. The camp was then under the command of Amon Göth, later known as the "Butcher of Płaszów", whose brutality was depicted in the film Schindler's List. Lewkowicz later recounted that Goeth would kill people for looking him in the eye or for walking too slowly. Lewkowicz would ultimately spend time in six different concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Mauthausen.

Post-war After the conclusion of World War II, Lewkowicz became a Nazi hunter

Media Lewkowicz's life was chronicled in The Survivor, released in the UK in March 2023. It has since been translated into 12 languages and is set to be released in the United States by Harper Horizon on 27 January 2025, International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The 2019 documentary The Survivor’s Revenge, based on Lewkowicz's life, documents his pursuit of justice of Nazi war criminals, including Amon Göth.