Samuel Pisar
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Samuel Pisar (born March 18, 1929, Białystok, Poland) is a Polish-born American international attorney, author, and Holocaust survivor. After being sent to Auschwitz and other facilities from age 13, he was released from Auschwitz aged 16.
Pisar went to Australia to join his mother's brothers and undertake his education. He attended Harvard University and subsequently became a senior advisor to John Fitzgerald Kennedy. After Kennedy became President of the United States in 1961, the first law that he signed was to grant US citizenship to Pisar. As a lawyer, Pisar's clients included Robert Maxwell.[1]
Pisar is an Honorary Member of The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation. He and his wife reside in Paris. He has written a memoir, Of Blood and Hope, which received one of the Present Tense literary awards in 1981.[2] He has also written a narration, based on his own memories of surviving the Holocaust, for the Symphony No. 3 ("Kaddish") of Leonard Bernstein, at Bernstein's instigation, and has performed the narration in concert.[3] [4]
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- ^ Marlise Simons. "Fresh Theories on Maxwell's Death", The New York Times, 6 December 1991. Retrieved on 2008-04-19.
- ^ "Johanna Kaplan Wins Award for O My America", The New York Times, 4 May 1981. Retrieved on 2008-04-19.
- ^ David Patrick Stearns. "For Bernstein's Kaddish a bold, personal voice", Philadelphia Inquirer, 17 April 2008. Retrieved on 2008-04-19.
- ^ David Patrick Stearns. "Orchestra lends its power to Kaddish", Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 April 2008. Retrieved on 2008-04-19.
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