Musician, Polish cultural activist, participant in the Ukrainian-Polish-Jewish dialogue.
Biography.
Graduated from the gymnasium in Drohobych, where Bruno Schulz taught and Alfred Schreier studied. Later he attended the Drohobych Pedagogical Institute, graduating in 1968 after the Lviv Conservatory.
He is a native Jew from Drohobych.
He spent his childhood in the town of Neglowice near Jasło, where his father, a chemical engineer, worked at an oil refinery. His cousin, Józef Szrajer, was a mathematician.
After returning to Drohobych in the fall of 1932, he entered the Henryk Sienkiewicz Gymnasium, then continued his studies at the Władysław Jagajło Gymnasium, where his art and labor teacher was Bruno Schultz.
Even before the war, at the age of 16, Alfred began performing in his hometown with Siegfried Binstock, the author of popular Polish tangos, and sang in Polish pop jazz bands and cabaret theaters.
During the Holocaust, Shraer's entire family perished: his father, grandmother, and brother were killed in a gas chamber, and his mother and grandfather were shot. He himself went through the hell of the concentration camps in Plaszów, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald. In Tausch, near Leipzig, Alfred worked at a factory producing Faust cartridges. He was saved by a miracle, separating from a column of prisoners during the "death march."
After the war, Alfred Schreier returned to Drohobych. In 1963, he graduated from the conducting faculty of the Lviv Conservatory, and in 1968 from the Ivan Franko Drohobych Pedagogical Institute. Alfred Schrayer worked as a teacher at the Vasyl Barvinsky State Music School in Drohobych. He created the Polish children's choir "Renaissance".
In 2007, he was named the brightest star of the Music Lion festival in Lviv.
Throughout his life, Alfred Schreier kept the memory of Bruno Schulz alive, promoting the legacy of this artist and writer. His memoirs were used in many publications and films.
Shortly before his death, he moved to Warsaw. He died in 2015 in Warsaw. He was buried in his hometown next to his wife Liudmyla.
Family.
Daughter Liliana and son Ihor emigrated to Germany.
Commemorating the musician
In 2011, during the musician's lifetime, a presentation of the Austrian director Paul Rosdy's documentary Der lezte Jude aus Drohobych (The Last Jew from Drohobych) took place in Vienna.
