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An interview with Samuel Pisar
with Samuel Pisar on May 8, 1995
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with Samuel Pisar on May 8, 1995
Samuel Pisar is an international lawyer and author who endured Soviet occupation and Nazi slavery in Auschwitz and other death camps, before emerging as one of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust. In 1961, he was voted American citizenship by a special Act of the US Congress, after serving as a member of President John F. Kennedy’s task force on foreign economic policy and adviser to the State Department and various committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
A widely read author published in twenty languages, Pisar’s seminal work “Coexistence and Commerce: Transactions Between East and West” inspired Nixon’s and Kissinger’s policies toward China, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
Pisar’s autobiographical memoir, “Of Blood and Hope”, was acclaimed as “a powerful commentary on our times, touching the depths and heights of human experience”. He is Knight of the French Legion of Honor, an Officer of the Order of Arts ands Letters, a Commander of Poland’s Order of Merit, an Officer of the Order of Australia and a recipient of other international distinctions and awards.
Source-Raoul Wallenberg Foundation http://www.raoulwallenberg.net/?en/awards/wallenberg/1023/1025.htm
