He Sang for His Captors at Auschwitz. 75 Years Later, He Sang There Again.
The New York Times
David Wisnia, whose tale of endurance and love during the Holocaust touched readers around the world, has died at 94.
In the end, his body, which had endured so much, was tired and frail. As a teenager, he had hauled away the bodies of prisoners who had killed themselves and had been slapped so hard he’d lost two teeth. He had learned to shoot a Thompson submachine gun and interrogate Nazis. His left forearm had been tattooed with the number 83526. David Wisnia, born in 1926 in Sochaczew, Poland, who endured the camps at Auschwitz, where he met and fell in love with another prisoner (as memorialized in the Metropolitan cover story “Lovers in Auschwitz, Reunited 72 Years Later,” December 2019), died on June 15. He was 94. Before his death, Mr. Wisnia made a plan to return to Auschwitz with his family to mark the 75th anniversary of the camp’s liberation in 2020.
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