Alfred Schreyer

Alfred Schreyer (Yiddish אַלפֿרÀעד שרייער; born 8 May 1922 in Drohobych, Ukraine died 25 April 2015 in Warsaw) was a Polish-Ukrainian fiddler and singer, a pupil of Bruno Schulz and survivor of the Holocaust.

Alfred Schreyer was born on 8 May 1922 in Drohobych in east Galicia, then part of Poland, to a Jewish family.

Shortly thereafter, Schreyer witnessed the occupying forces turn the rabbis to the road on the date of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

[3] At the start of the German-Soviet War in June 1941, Drohobych became part of the district of Galicia under the General Government.

Schreyer stated, "until 6 April 1945 when we were evacuated, I weighed only 39 kilos, had bulges in the legs and was a living corpse."

Schreyer's father died in early August 1942, together with around 5000 Jews from Drohobych in Belzec extermination camp.

In 2011, Paul Rosdy produced a film detailing Schreyer's life entitled "The Last Jew of Drohobych" (German: Der letze Jude von Drohobycz).