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).

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.

References

Other websites
 Mémoire de la Shoah, interview de Paul Sobol, 1997
 Auschwitz Foundation 
 Interviews with Paul Sobol  at Témoins de la 2e génération.

Category:1926 births
Category:2020 deaths
Category:Holocaust survivors
Category:French Jews
Category:Belgian educators
Category:Belgian autobiographers
Category:Writers from Brussels