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Dov Freiberg (1927–2008)

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Geburtstag
1927-05-15
Todestag
2008-03
Geschlecht
male
Nationalität
Poland
Israel
Geburtsort
Warsaw, Poland
Sterbeort
Ramla, Israel
Wohnorte
Lodz, Poland
Warsaw, Poland
Ramlah, Israel
Warsaw Ghetto
Turobin, Lublin, Poland
Berufe
writer
memoirist
soldier
Holocaust survivor
resistance fighter
public speaker
Kurzbiographie
Dov Freiberg was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland, and spent his early childhood in Łódź, where his father was a factory worker. He was 12 years old when Nazi Germany invaded his homeland in World War II. His father was shot by the Germans in the first days of the war, and his mother took her four children to live with her parents in Warsaw. In 1941, when conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto had worsened, she arranged for Dov to be smuggled out to a rural area near Lublin. In 1942, he and the other Jews from the area were deported by the Nazis to the Sobibor extermination camp.
He survived the abuse, starvation and cruelty in the camp for about 17 months, then joined in the prisoners' revolt in October 1943. He managed to escape into the nearby woods and join a Jewish partisan unit. They were liberated by the Red Army in 1944.

After the war, he returned to Łódź for a short time and then went to Germany, where he joined a group of Holocaust survivors that included his future wife, Sarah, a refugee from the USSR. This group tried to travel in the summer of 1947 on the famous illegal ship Exodus to the British Mandate of Palestine, but were turned back. In 1948, however, they succeeded in entering Palestine and the Freibergs settled on a kibbutz in the northern part of the country. He fought in Israel's War of Independence, Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War. He testified at the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961, and four years later at the trial of Nazi officers involved in crimes at Sobibor.

Freiberg became a popular public speaker and gave frequent talks on the Holocaust to students, soldiers, and educational organizations. His memoir To Survive Sobibor was published in 1988. His other books were A Journey To The Past With Dekel Shibolim (1993), A Man as Any Other (1996), and Two Worlds (2001).

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A personal account of surviving a Nazi death camp and of participating in the only successful mass escape from a death camp. He documents his post war travels, ending in Israel.
 
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An excellent, first hand account of the terrors of a Nazi death camp as told by a survivor.
 
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