Keystone-SDA
The artist Shlomo Graber, survivor of the holocaust, died Sunday at the age of 99. The Jewish community in Basel has confirmed information to the Keystone-ATS news agency. He was one of the last witnesses of the Shoah in Switzerland.
(Keystone-ATS) Shlomo Graber was born in 1926 in Majdan, Czechoslovakia, a territory that has become Ukrainian. He grew up in Hungary. In 1944, he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Later, the Nazis deported him to Fünfteichen and Görlitz.
He survived a death march before the camp was released by the Red Army in 1945. With the exception of himself and his father, all the members of his family were killed by the Nazis, as Shlomo Graber writes in his autobiography “Dreimal Dem Tod Entkommen” (three times escaped death).
After the war, he emigrated to Israel and worked in an electronics company. From 1989, Basel became his adoption city. Until recently before his death, he headed the “Spalentor gallery” with his partner. In the workshop there, he worked as a painter and author of books. He has always maintained the memory of the Shoah, in particular by giving conferences in schools.