OUGD404 - Time Line of Romek Marber

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Time line of Romek Marber

1925 - Romek Marber was born in Poland

1939 – deported to the Bochnia ghetto during the outbreak of the second world war as he was Jewish and forced to do so by the Nazis

1942 – Marber was saved from transportation to the Belzec death camp by the actions of a sergeant Kurzbach, the commander of the forced-labour workshop in Bochina.

1945 – Liberated by US forces on 18^th April

1946 - He moved to Britain where he was reunited with his brother and father

1950 – he began his studies at St. Martians with a course in Commercial Arts

1953 – attended the Royal College of Art

1960-1967 – Marber designed covers for the Economist.

1961 – after working on covers for The Economist, Penguin’s Germano Facetti commissioned Marber to design two book covers for the author Simeon Potter. He later gave Marber the chance to work across the entire sequence of titles for Penguin Crime.

1964-1965 -  he became the first art director of the Observer magazine.

1966 – he continued working at the Observer as a design consultant.

1989 – retired as a Professor Emeritus from Middlesex University

2010 – Published a book of his memoirs of his experiences during the second world war entitled No Return: Journeys in the Holocaust.