David Faber (author)

David Faber in May 2006

For other people named David Faber, see David Faber (disambiguation).

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]

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 13, 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.

Works

• David Faber, James D. Kitchen (1997). Because of Romek: a Holocaust survivor's memoir. Granite Hills Press. ISBN 9780963888624. 

References

1. ^ Jennifer Toomer-Cook (2005-09-14). "Holocaust survivor recounts Nazi-perpetrated horrors". Deseret News. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/605154420/Holocaust-survivor-recounts-Nazi-perpetrated-horrors.html. Retrieved 2010-10-15. 
2. ^ "Holocaust survivor David Faber shares experiences". Elon.edu. http://www.elon.edu/e-web/pendulum/Issues/2004/11_11/news/holocaust.xhtml. Retrieved 2010-10-15. 
3. ^ "Part III - Faces and Voices of Holocaust Survivors". Isurvived.org. http://isurvived.org/TOC-III.html. Retrieved 2010-10-15. 
4. ^ "I met David Faber, Holocaust survivor, today at a book signing.". Democratic Underground. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3106514. Retrieved 2010-10-15. 

External links

• http://www.becauseofromek.com/

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