Roman Frister

Polish born Israeli journalist and Holocaust survivor (1928-2015)

Roman Frister (17 January 1928 – 9 February 2015) wrote The Cap: The Price of a Life, an autobiographical account of his life living in Nazi occupied Poland and then Poland under the communists. Frister spent time in: the Cracow detention centre, where Frister witnessed his mother's murder when she was struck with a pistol on the head by SS-Hauptsturmführer Wilhelm Kunde; Starachowice forced labor camp, where he witnessed his father die of epidemic typhus; Mauthausen; Auschwitz; a death march to Mauthausen again, after which he was released.