Shlomo Shafir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Shlomo Shafir

Israeli journalist and Dachau concentration camp survivor

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1924

Place of Birth: Berlin-Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany

Date of Death: 08-May-2013

Profession: historian, journalist

Nationality: Lithuania, Israel

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Shlomo Shafir (1924-2013) was an Israeli journalist and historian.
His work included the underground Hebrew-language publication Nitzotz, circulated in the Kovno Ghetto and Dachau concentration camp; the Israeli Labor Party newspaper, Davar; and other Hebrew, German, and English language writings.Shafir was born in Germany as Selimar Frenkel.
During the Second World War, he was a prisoner in the Kovno Ghetto and was subsequently transferred first to Stutthof and then to Dachau concentration camp.
After World War II he emigrated to Israel.
In the 1960s he was stationed in Washington D.C.
as the US correspondent for the newspaper Davar.
In later years he served as the foreign affairs editor of Davar and the editor of the journal of the World Jewish Congress, Gesher.