Max Mannheimer (1920–2016)

Max Mannheimer was born in Neutitschein, Czech Republic on February 6, 1920. In 1938, he fled with his family to Hungary. Four years later, they were all deported, first to Theresienstadt, then to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where his parents, three of his siblings, and his first wife were killed. He and toon meer his younger brother were transferred to Warsaw in 1943. He was then marched to Dachau, where he was a slave laborer until shortly before the camp's liberation by American forces in 1945. After the war, he lived Munich. He wrote two books The Dachau Notebooks and My Late Diary. He visited hundreds of institutions and appeared on television, telling his story to students, soldiers, neo-Nazis, and the wider public. He was the vice president of the Comité International de Dachau, an organization of former Dachau prisoners, and the president of the Dachau Concentration Camp Association. He died on September 23, 2016 at the age of 96. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder