- Mietek Grocher
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Mietek Grocher is a Polish Jewish author and speaker who survived The Holocaust. Grocher recounts the events in his 1996 book Jag överlevde (English translation: I survived).
Grocher was born in 1927 in Warsaw, Poland and lived with his family in the Warsaw Ghetto. As a teenager during World War II, Grocher survived the gas chamber and nine concentration camps including Buchenwald and Majdanek. He was the only member of his family to survive. Since the end of the war he has lived in Västerås, Sweden and traveled around to Swedish schools giving speeches about the events of the holocaust.
References
- Grocher, Mietek, Jag överlevde, Johanneshov: Inova 2001, ISBN 91-85996-41-6
Categories:- 1927 births
- Living people
- Polish Jews
- Swedish Jews
- Swedish-language writers
- Warsaw Ghetto inmates
- Buchenwald concentration camp survivors
- Majdanek concentration camp survivors
- People from Warsaw
- Nazi concentration camp survivors
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