Holocaust survivor to speak at Sullivan Middle School

BONSALL – Acclaimed lecturer, educator and author David Faber will speak about his book, “Because of Romek: A Holocaust Survivor’s Memoir” on June 14 at 9 a.m. in the multipurpose room at Sullivan Middle School, 7350 West Lilac Rd., Bonsall.

“Because of Romek” tells the experiences of a teenager during the Holocaust of World War II. This is the riveting, true story of a young boy’s survival in the face of Nazi atrocities.

In the mid-1960s, the German government contacted David Faber to testify against Nazi war criminals. Until then, he did not know that his older brother, Romek, whom the Nazis had tortured to death many years earlier, had been involved in a Polish underground plot to avert Nazi Germany’s ability to create an atomic bomb. When Faber finally agreed to testify, he began to relive all the horrors of his experiences during the war: concentration camps, murders, tortures, starvation, and disease. At age 13, Faber witnessed the Nazi murders of his parents, brother Romek, and five of his six sisters.

Faber survived nine concentration camps between the ages of 13-18, from 1939 to 1945, including Auschwitz and Buchenwald. When he was liberated in 1945 from the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, he weighed only 72 pounds.

“Because of Romek” fulfills the promise Faber made to his mother to “tell the world” about the horrors of the past so they would not be repeated by future generations.

The public is welcome to attend.