David Faber (author)
David Faber (born 1926) is a Polish Jew who survived nine concentration camps in occupied Poland and Nazi Germany. He is also an award-winning educator and lecturer on the Holocaust.[1][2][3]
Life
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. David Faber also recalls the horrors of seeing most of his family dead.
He remembers how an Italian friend named Finci, 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.
Works
- David Faber, James D. Kitchen (1997). Because of Romek: a Holocaust survivor's memoir. Granite Hills Press. ISBN 978-0-9638886-2-4.
References
- ↑ Jennifer Toomer-Cook (14 September 2005). "Holocaust survivor recounts Nazi-perpetrated horrors". Deseret News. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
- ↑ "Holocaust survivor David Faber shares experiences". Elon.edu. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
- ↑ "Part III - Faces and Voices of Holocaust Survivors". Isurvived.org. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
- ↑ "I met David Faber, Holocaust survivor, today at a book signing.". Democratic Underground. Retrieved 2010-10-15.
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