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(JTA) — A 92-year-old man who survived seven different German concentration camps participated in a question and answer session, detailing his harrowing near-death to liberation story.

Henry Flescher, who now lives in Aventura, Florida and had not heard of the social news-sharing site Reddit before the session earlier this week, participated in the forum with the help of his grandson, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Wednesday.

“Most people are never happy and complain too much. It’s too hot out, it’s too cold out. Life is beautiful, no need to complain so much,” he said.

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Flescher, who was born in Vienna, escaped to France during World War II but was captured in Lyon. He spent the next three years in seven concentration camps, including Auschwitz.

He described being transported to a camp by a cattle car packed with prisoners and one bucket to use as a toilet.

“The smell was unfathomable,” Flescher said.

After enduring six days in the car, 300 were taken off the train and the others were shipped off to be killed at Auschwitz. Flescher said he was number 298.

“I will never forget the number 298,” he said.

Flescher went on to work in a shoe factory at the Ohrdruf camp and helped build bridges at the Peiskretscham camp. He also worked at the Blechhamer camp, a place he called “hell” and where he witnessed a friend be hanged for using a telephone wire as a belt to hold his pants up.

“Punishments were a daily routine and my front teeth were knocked out here,” he said.

He nearly gave up hope when he contracted a bad case of dysentery at the Gross Rosen camp.

“I lived for tomorrow. I was always positive,” he said.

He was eventually found hiding in a chicken coop by American soldiers in 1945.

“I have always believed in God. Before and after. God didn’t kill the people, the Nazis did,” he said.

Numerous celebrities and thought leaders, from Jerry Seinfeld to President Barack Obama, have participated in Reddit AMA sessions, which solicit questions from users in the website’s social network community.

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