Josef Perl (M / Slovakia, 1930), Holocaust survivor
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Josef Perl (M / Slovakia, 1930-2018), Holocaust survivor
- MEMOIRS : Faces in the Smoke: The Story of Josef Perl, by Arthur C. Benjamin.
- KEYWORDS : <Poland> <Buchenwald> <Liberation of Buchenwald> / <Paris Children> <England>
Biography
- wikipedia.en -- [ wikipedia.it]
Josef Perl was born April 27, 1930 in Veľky Bockov (now Velykyi Bychkiv) in the Carpathian Mountains, Eastern Slovakia (now Ukraine). Josef’s parents were Frieda and Lazar and he had eight sisters.
His mother and sisters were murdered in a mass shooting. Josef survived many concentration camps: Plaszow, Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, Gross-Rosen, Balkenhain, Hirschberg and Buchenwald, where he was liberated on April 11, 1945.
He returned to Czechoslovakia. In May-June 1946 he went to England from Prague as part of the Paris Children. He was reunited with his father 20 years later.
Book : Faces in the Smoke, by Arthur C. Benjamin
- Faces in the Smoke: The Story of Josef Perl', by Arthur C. Benjamin (rev. 2001)