Paul Sobol

Paul Sobol (26 June 1926 – 17 November 2020) was a French-born Belgian educator, writer and Holocaust survivor. He was widely known as one of the country's best known "passeur de mémoire" (memory keepers).^[1]

He was born in Paris. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on 31 July 1944. He was involved in the death marches to Gross-Rosen concentration camp and escaped on 25 April 1945 during a transfer to another camp. His parents and younger brother were killed.

Sobol died on 17 November 2020 of a ruptured aneurysm in Brussels, aged 94.^[2]

References

↑ Lempkowicz, Yossi (18 November 2020). One of the last Auschwitz survivors died in Belgium where he he worked as a 'passer of memory'. European Jewish Press. https://ejpress.org/one-of-the-last-auschwitz-survivor-died-in-belgium-where-he-he-worked-as-a-passer-of-memory/. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
↑ (in fr) Paul Sobol voulait témoigner "afin qu'un Auschwitz n'arrive plus jamais". La Libre Belgique. 18 November 2020. https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/societe/paul-sobol-voulait-temoigner-afin-qu-un-auschwitz-n-arrive-plus-jamais-5fb56e927b50a6525b6fca67. Retrieved 19 November 2020.

Other websites

Mémoire de la Shoah, interview de Paul Sobol, 1997
Auschwitz Foundation Archived 2020-08-13 at the Wayback Machine
Interviews with Paul Sobol Archived 2020-12-08 at the Wayback Machine at Témoins de la 2e génération.

[ejpress-1] Lempkowicz, Yossi (18 November 2020). One of the last Auschwitz survivors died in Belgium where he he worked as a 'passer of memory'. European Jewish Press. https://ejpress.org/one-of-the-last-auschwitz-survivor-died-in-belgium-where-he-he-worked-as-a-passer-of-memory/. Retrieved 19 November 2020.

[2] (in fr) Paul Sobol voulait témoigner "afin qu'un Auschwitz n'arrive plus jamais". La Libre Belgique. 18 November 2020. https://www.lalibre.be/belgique/societe/paul-sobol-voulait-temoigner-afin-qu-un-auschwitz-n-arrive-plus-jamais-5fb56e927b50a6525b6fca67. Retrieved 19 November 2020.

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