Richard Glazar

Richard Glazar
Richard Glazar on the cover of his book titled Trap with a Green Fence
Born
Richard Goldschmied

29 November 1920
Prague, Czechoslovakia
Died20 December 1997(1997-12-20) (aged 77)
Prague, Czech Republic
Known forTreblinka survivor, author of Treblinka memoir

Richard Glazar (29 November 1920 – 20 December 1997) was a Czech-Jewish inmate of the Treblinka extermination camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. One of a small group of survivors of the camp's prisoner revolt in August 1943, Glazar described his experiences in an autobiographical book, Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka (1992).

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