David Faber (born 1926) is a Polish Jew who survived nine concentration camps in Nazi Germany occupied Poland and Germany. He is also an award-winning educator and lecturer on the Holocaust.[1][2][3]
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He witnessed the murders of friends and family, the people they were staying with, and some of his extended family at a dinner table by the Gestapo. He was sent to nine concentration camps in Germany and occupied Poland. Amazingly, he survived. At age 14, he was a fighter with Soviet partisans. Faber recalls seeing many horrible actions in the concentration camps, ranging from seeing a baby thrown into an oven to losing every friend he made in camp.
He remembers how a friend ran into his father's arms and his father was shot right then, (in front of him). When he was liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945, he was 18 years old and weighed 72 pounds. Faber says "I was a living skeleton". He said he could not resist anymore, and as soon as he was liberated he gave up on living. He was found at the side of a road and taken to a hospital. His book, Because of Romek, is written in memory of his older brother, Romek.[4] Faber's book is required reading in some schools.
He currently resides in San Diego, California.