Roman Frister, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Israeli journalist
Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1928
Place of Birth: Bielsko, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Date of Death: 09-Feb-2015
Profession: writer, author, journalist
Nationality: Poland, Israel
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Roman Frister
- Roman Frister (17 January 1928 – 9 February 2015) wrote The Cap: The Price of a Life, an autobiographical account of his life living in Nazi occupied Poland and then Poland under the communists. Frister spent time in: the Cracow detention centre, where Frister witnessed his mother's murder when she was struck with a pistol on the head by SS-Hauptsturmführer Wilhelm Kunde; Starachowice forced labor camp, where he witnessed his father die of typhoid fever; Mauthausen; Auschwitz; a death march to Mauthausen again, after which he was released.The Cap provides a frank account of his survival and includes much of his post-war life covering aspects of his career as an award-winning Israeli journalist after his emigration in 1957. In 1967 Frister gave evidence at Wilhelm Kunde's trial held in Kiel, Germany.
- Kunde was sentenced to seven years. After immigrating to Israel, Frister became a prominent columnist and editor in the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz.
- In 1990 he cofounded a school for journalism in Tel Aviv named "Coteret".
- In 2006 the school was incorporated into Tel Aviv University.
- Many of the school's graduates work is in Israeli media today.
- Frister died in Poland on 9 February 2015.Other books by Frister include: Impossible Love: Ascher Levi's Longing for Germany.
- Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
- 2003. Le-lo Pesharah [Uncompromising] (in Hebrew).
- Zemorah, Bitan.
- 1987.
- ISBN 978-9650304201. ha-Zehut ha-genuvah [The Stolen Identity - Itzhak Liebmann's Double Life].
- Zemorah, Bitan.
- 1985.
- ISBN 978-9650303228. Asiri Le Minyan [Tenth for a Minyan] (in Hebrew).
- Zemorah, Bitan.
- 1983.
- ISBN 978-9650300135. Stormy Years.
- Bibleland Publications.
- 1975.
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