Michael Marder, who survived nine Nazi concentration camps during World War II 11 and was buried the following day at Gates of Zion cemetery in Airmont said his daughter, Melanie Marder-Gross Marder endured the horrors imposed by the Nazis during his time in Auschwitz Vaihingen and elsewhere until he was liberated in 1945. "I fought the Angel of Death in nine different death camps," Marder told The Journal News/lohud in a 2018 interview "I thank you God who had spared my life and enabled me to be here." SUFFERN: What's next for Avon property purchase? COMPTROLLER: Haverstraw town's computers vulnerable to ransomware He was removed from his family by the Germans in Poland as a 14-year-old and taken to the Janiszow concentration camp where he built dikes to prevent a river from overflowing into farms. and they were hitting us," Marder said of his captors "You were in the sun for seven hours daily he was sent to the Budzyn camp in Poland to repair damaged planes and tend to sick prisoners Marder was shipped to Radom in Poland to work in an ammunition factory But his stay wasn't long; within four months the Germans abolished that camp and sent Marder on foot to the Polish city of Tomaszów Mazowiecki and then shipped him to Auschwitz. He was later sent to the adjacent camps where he considered jumping to his death while mining rocks in a quarry. He was eventually sent to Bergen-Belsen where he was forced to collect the bodies of dead Jews in a wheelbarrow and dump them in a pit behind the concentration camp. Marder described what the conditions at Bergen-Belsen were like in 1944: "The camp was filthy and overcrowded," he said during the 2018 interview I was covered in bugs and plucking the lice from my skin and cracking them in between my nails People were eating the livers from the dead bodies." where he worked as a welder in the shipyard there was at least one instance when about 1,000 Jews were crammed onto a rusty ship which was towed out to the ocean and detonated. In 1945, the Germans sent Marder back to Bergen-Belsen where he spent another four months before he was freed by the British. and I was with them for about two months and then the Swedish Red Cross came." He was sent to Sweden to recover and lived there for about five years before moving to Brooklyn to live with an aunt and uncle. Marder moved to Suffern in 1963 and became an inventor with several patents manufacturing music boxes and other novelties, said his daughter then moved back to Rockland two years ago to live with his daughter who described him as a learned man who spoke several languages "He loved to go to synagogue every Saturday and every holiday he just loved life," Marder-Gross said Marder married Madeleine White in 1954 Florida; nine grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.