# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-pivnik
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:58:44.202Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-pivnik"
name: "Sam Pivnik"
slug: "sam-pivnik"
description: "Sam Pivnik was a Holocaust survivor, author and memoirist. He was the second son of Lajb Pivnik, a tailor, and Feigel Pivnik.\nAs a Jewish family, the Pivniks were forced to live in the Kamionka Ghetto in Będzin from early 1943, and on 6 August 1943 the family were deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau. His parents, younger sister Chana and younger brothers Meir, Wolf and Josef, were murdered on arrival. His older sister Hendla survived for a brief period before she was sent to be gassed."
tagline: "Holocaust Survivor (1926–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sampivnik.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1926-09-01"
deathDate: "2017-08-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.344313333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/SamPivnik"
    handle:    "SamPivnik"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.dw.com/en/why-one-of-the-last-remaining-auschwitz-survivors-wrote-a-memoir-decades-later/a-39208305"
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sam_Pivnik"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pivnik"
    title: "Sam Pivnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pivnik"
    title: "Sam Pivnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pivnik"
    title: "Sam Pivnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%9D_%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%91%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7"
    title: "סם פיבניק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pivnik"
    title: "Sam Pivnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Pivnik"
    title: "Sam Pivnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4561347"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump