Pavel Werner

Pavel Werner (M / Czechia, 1932), Holocaust survivor.

• KEYWORDS : <Czechia> <Theresienstadt> <Czech Family Camp Auschwitz> <Auschwitz> <Blechhammer> <Death March> <Buchenwald (Block 66)> <Liberation of Buchenwald> -- <Czechia> <Germany> <United States>

Biography

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Pavel Werner was born Jan 3, 1932 in Prague, Czechia. On Dec 9, 1942, the family was deported to Theresienstadt. In 1943 they were transported to the Czech Family Camp Auschwitz. The camp was eliminated some months later, in July 1944. Pavel passed the selection process in front of doctor Mengele, but his parents didn't. Pavel was one of Birkenau Boys taken to Camp D. In January 1945, he was on a Death March to Mauthausen and Gunskirchen, where he was liberated. After the war, he went back to Czechia and spent his life there.