The Italian Holocaust survivor whose story featured in the Oscar-winning movie Life Is Beautiful has died.
Rubino Romeo Salmoni passed away aged 91 in Rome on Sunday.
Bearing the number A15810, he managed to survive the hell of Auschwitz in WWII where more than 1.1million Jewish victims were murdered.
The Central Council for Jews in Germany said his death was a 'great loss' to humanity.
His story, told as Life Is Beautiful in 1998, won 40 international awards including three Oscars.
It was based on Salmoni's own book entitled I Beat Hitler, which described with dark humour his experiences in Auschwitz and the loss of his two brothers to the Nazis.
He was detained first at the Fossoli camp in northern Italy from where he began what he called the 'long journey toward death' that culminated in his transfer to Auschwitz where he was spared the gas chamber and put to work as a forced labourer.
The movie based on his experience tells the story of fictional Jewish Italian Guido Orefice - played by Roberto Benigni who also directed and co-wrote the film - who employs his fertile imagination to help his family during their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.
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