Tibor Jacob Grunberger, a Dallas man who survived the Holocaust as a baby, died Tuesday morning on the age of 92, in accordance with his household.
Grunberger was born in 1931 in what was then Czechoslovakia, stated his son Glen Grunberger, 58.
As an adolescent, Tibor Grunberger and his brother had many “shut calls” whereas residing within the Budapest ghetto, in accordance with his son.
Grunberger was given a gold watch by his father earlier than he died in a focus camp, and the younger boy used it to purchase escape from the ghetto for himself, his brother and a cousin on a truck that carried useless our bodies. When the Soviet forces reached Budapest, Tibor translated in alternate for meals for his kin, who have been hiding within the basement of a bombed-out resort, his son stated. Grunberger is credited with saving his brother and two cousins.
Tuesday is Yom Hashoah or Holocaust Remembrance Day.
After the warfare, Grunberger finally got here to Dallas and labored in gross sales for over 35 years. He additionally was concerned in occasions on the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum and sat down with the museum in 2016 for an interview about his life.
Grunberger was a Cowboys season ticketholder for years, his son stated, and faithfully attended the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He was a ballroom dancer and met his second spouse by way of a Dallas-based group.
“He was a personality,” Glen Grunberger stated. “He was a man who may speak to simply about anyone.”
Grunberger is survived by his spouse, Ilona Lyde Grunberger; youngsters, Jennifer Grunberger, Glen Grunberger and Joel Grunberger; stepdaughter Aimee Lyde; former spouse, Carol Hutchinson; and three grandchildren.
He was preceded in demise by his father, Ladislav Grunberger, who was killed in a focus camp in 1942; mom Szeren Grunberger; brother Karol Grunberger; and “grandparents and quite a few aunts, uncles and cousins died in WWII, in focus camps, ghettos or by way of sickness and maltreatment below Nazi occupation,” in accordance with Glen Grunberger.