After the war, Donat, a chemist by training and journalist by profession, emigrated with his family to the United States, settling in New York City.
[1] Alexander Donat was born Michał Berg in the Polish capital Warsaw,[2] where he lived until World War II.
Michał Berg met a prisoner whose real name was Alexander Donat at Vaihingen concentration camp.
He was liberated from Dachau by American troops and returned to Warsaw, where he found his wife and their son, whom the Polish rescuers had placed in a Catholic orphanage.
[3][4] In 1977, Donat helped start "The Holocaust Library", a non-profit program to launch books that condemn persecution and tell of the personal experiences of the Jews during the Second World War.