Shlomo Graber

Sentenced to Death Three Times Shlomo Graber

Shlomo Graber was born in Majdan, Russian Carpathia, in 1926, and raised inNyirbator, Hungary. In 1941 he and his family were deported to Poland as statelesspersons. in April 1944 they taken to the ghetto, and in May 1944 sent to Auschwitz. Except for Shlomo and his father, the entire family was persecuted and murdered bythe Nazis. Further stages of horror were the Fünfteichen and Görlitz concentrationcamps. On May 8, 1945, Shlomo Graber was freed by the Red Army and in 1948he emigrated to Israel, joined the Israeli army, and established a large family: threechildren, six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Since 1989 he has been living in Basel, Switzerland, where he is a painter. Despitehis horrifying adolescence, he has not lost his zest for life or his youthful energy, which is expressed with feeling in his art works. For the last thirty years he has shared his life with Myrtha, and recently celebratedhis 92nd birthday.