Ben Fainer

Silent for Sixty Years: Ben Fainer - Holocaust Survivor

Publisher Marketing: Ben's story is unlike any you've ever heard. Ben Fainer spent the entire war as a Nazi prisoner, surviving for six years in six different camps. After losing his mother, three siblings, and over 250 other relatives in the Holocaust, Ben was liberated by American soldiers while on a final death-march in the spring of 1945. Ben didn't just survive, he thrived. He was able to put his tragic childhood behind and live an incredible post-war life. Then after over sixty years of silence, he happened to meet and become best friends with one of his liberators Together they began talking about all they'd been through so long ago. It is a moving and greatly inspirational story you'll never forget.