Andrew Spitz of Kew Gardens Hills will turn 95 on Nov. 22.

Although he has built a life in Queens with his wife, Ruth, Spitz can never forget what his days were like 80 years ago, when he was taken from his hometown in Hungary to the Nazis’ largest concentration camp.

“Sometimes, you turn to God and you say, how do you allow this to happen to me?” he told the Chronicle during a home visit Monday.

Spitz was separated from his family when he was brought to Auschwitz at 14. His sister also was in the camp, but men and women stayed in separate quarters, and his mother was with her own age group. His father had been in an army unit after being drafted.

He spoke of the Nazis’ “inhumanity” only in vague terms, and got choked up when thinking back to the cruelty he endured.

He said many peopl

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