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Tributes to Holocaust survivor who kept on giving

February 2, 2012 13:23
Roman Halter: dignity and warmth

By

Jennifer Lipman,

Jennifer Lipman

1 min read

Tributes poured in this week for Holocaust survivor Roman Halter, who died on Monday, aged 85.

Mr Halter, who moved to Britain after the war and worked as an architect and artist, lost all his family in the Holocaust. He was best known for his stained glass window work, examples of which exist in synagogues and churches around Britain.

Born in Chodecz in Poland, he was sent to the Lodz ghetto, where he worked in a metal factory as a young teenager.

The only surviving member of his family by 1942, he was transported to Auschwitz, and later to the Stutthof concentration camp and to Dresden as a slave labourer. In the mid 1990s Roman Halter became a leader of the successful campaign to get compensation for former slave labourers.

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