Tibor Jacob Grunberger, a Dallas man who survived the Holocaust as a child, died Tuesday at the age of 92, according to his family.
Tibor Grunberger died Tuesday at the age of 92. He survived the Holocaust as an adolescent and eventually settled in Dallas.Tibor Jacob Grunberger, a Dallas man who survived the Holocaust as a child, died Tuesday morning at the age of 92, according to his family.As an adolescent, Tibor Grunberger and his brother had many “close calls” while living in the Budapest ghetto, according to his son.
Grunberger was given a gold watch by his father before he died in a concentration camp, and the young boy used it to buy escape from the ghetto for himself, his brother and a cousin on a truck that carried dead bodies. When the , Tibor translated in exchange for food for his relatives, who were hiding in the basement of a bombed-out hotel, his son said. Grunberger is credited with saving his brother and two cousins.
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