Roman Frister, a Holocaust survivor who was a former editor of Haaretz, died Feb. 9 in Poland. He was 87. Frister, a dual Polish and Israeli citizen, survived the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps.
He was born in 1928 in Bielsko, Poland, After the war he settled in Wroclaw, but in 1957 he moved to Israel, where he worked for the Hebrew daily newspaper Haaretz, serving as editor of the weekend edition. He worked also for Radio Free Europe and the Polish section of the BBC.
Frister was buried Feb. 11 in his native Poland. — jta