About Samuel Pisar
Samuel Pisar (March 18, 1929 – July 27, 2015) was a Polish-American lawyer, author, and Holocaust survivor. == Early life == Pisar was born in Białystok, Poland, to Jewish parents David and Helaina (née Suchowolska) Pisar. His father established the region's first taxi service. His parents and younger sister Frieda were murdered in the Holocaust. Pisar was sent to the Majdanek, Bliżyn, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Oranienburg, and Dachau death camps and ultimately to the Engelberg Tunnel near Leonberg. At the end of the war, he escaped during a death march; after making a break into the forest, he found refuge in a US tank. He is the only Holocaust survivor of the 900 children of his Polish school. After the liberation, Pisar spent a year and a half in the American occupation zone of Germany, engaging in black marketeering with fellow survivors. He was rescued by an aunt living in Paris. An uncle sent him to Melbourne, Australia, where he resumed his studies.
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