Richard Glazar

Richard Glazar
Richard Glazar on the cover of his book titled Trap with a Green Fence
Born
Richard Goldschmied

November 29, 1920
DiedDecember 20, 1997 (aged 77)
Prague
Known forTreblinka survivor, author of Treblinka memoir

Richard Glazar (November 29, 1920 – December 20, 1997) was a Czech-Jewish inmate of the Treblinka extermination camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. One of a small group of survivors of the camp's prisoner revolt in August 1943, Glazar described his experiences in an autobiographical book, Trap with a Green Fence: Survival in Treblinka (1992).