Roman Frister

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Roman Frister (born 17th January 1928, Bielsko-Biala, Poland) wrote "The Cap: The Price of a Life", an autobiographical account of his life living in Nazi occupied Poland and then Poland under the communists.

Frister spent time in:

the Cracow detention centre where Frister witnessed his mother's murder when she was struck with a pistol on the head by SS-Hauptsturmführer Wilhelm Kunde;
Starachowice forced labour camp where he witnessed his father die of typhoid;
Mauthausen
Auschwitz
and finally a death march to Mauthausen again, after which he was released.

Firster's book provides a frank account of his survival and includes much of his post-war life covering aspects of his career as an award winning Israeli journalist after his emigration in 1957.

In 1967 Frister gave evidence at Wilhelm Kunde's trial held in Kiel, Germany. Kunde was sentenced to seven years.