David Faber
David Faber (born August 25, 1928 - July 28, 2015 in San Diego , California ) was a Polish Jew , author and Holocaust survivor .
Life
He saw his parents, his brother Romek, five of his six sisters and other family members being killed by the Nazis . He was a prisoner in nine different concentration camps in Germany and Poland , all of which he survived. At the age of 13 he fought with the Soviet partisans.
Faber described in his book seeing how babies were burned in the oven and also his friends were killed in the concentration camps. He remembered a child being shot for running to his father. When he was liberated from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 at the age of 18, he still weighed 36 kg.
Faber said: "I am a living skeleton". He wrote his book Because of Romek in memory of his older brother Romek.
David Faber lived in San Diego , California with his wife Lina .
Web links
- Literature by and about David Faber in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by David Faber at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ In Memory of David Faber 1928 - 2015 ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ David Faber: Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor's Memoir
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Faber, David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish Jew, author and Holocaust survivor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1928 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 2015 |
| Place of death | San Diego , California |