Dario Gabbai
Greek Holocaust survivor (1922–2020) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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David Dario Gabbai (September 2, 1922 – March 25, 2020) was a Greek Sephardi Jew and Holocaust survivor, notable for his role as a member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz. He was deported to the camp in March 1944 and put to work in one of the crematoria at Birkenau, where he was forced to assist in burning the bodies of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews that were deported to the camp during the spring and summer of that year.
Dario Gabbai | |
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Born | (1922-09-02)September 2, 1922 |
Died | March 25, 2020(2020-03-25) (aged 97) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Gabbai remained at Auschwitz until its evacuation in January 1945. He was liberated from Ebensee concentration camp in Austria by the United States Army, and spoke publicly about what he witnessed and experienced during the Holocaust. He was the last of the known survivors of the Sonderkommando.[1]