stunned to discover his wife , who had also been shipped to Auschwitz , alive and well in Poland . The Brinkmanns immigrated to America , where Brinkmann spent years in the bar and nightclub business , co-founding the Adam 's Apple disco in Manhattan in 1971 . In recent years , he had been the real estate manager of a mixed-use building in the Bronx , working `` seven days a week , without fail , '' Rick Brinkman said . On Thursday , the building 's superintendent grew concerned when Brinkmann did not show up for work . He notified Brinkmann 's son and received permission to enter the father 's apartment , where he had lived alone since his wife died last year . Brinkmann was found face-down in his bedroom , his hands bound behind his back and his body showing blunt-force trauma wounds , police said . Brinkmann 's blue 2009 Honda Civic had been stolen , along with one of two safes in his apartment , police said . The vehicle was later recovered in the Bronx . Rick Brinkman speculated that the killing was random . `` Anybody who knew him really liked
NEW YORK -LRB- CNN -RRB- -- A Bronx woman has been charged with murder and robbery in the death of an 89-year-old Nazi concentration camp survivor , and police said a man is still being sought in connection with the death . Felix Brinkmann dances at a 2008 birthday party . `` He was not the kind of guy who had enemies , '' his son says . Angela Murray , 30 , was arrested Saturday , according to the Manhattan district attorney 's office , and is accused of strangling Guido Felix Brinkmann on Thursday in his Upper East Side apartment . Murray was arraigned Sunday and charged with one count of murder in the second degree and three counts of robbery . Brinkmann , a native of Latvia , was a Holocaust survivor who escaped death for a year while he was in the Mauthausen , Ebensee and Auschwitz camps . He had been slated for the gas chambers five times , but each time , he used his fluency in German to talk his way out , said his son , Rick Brinkman , who spells his last name differently . After the war , he was