Lolek Safir was born in Lodz, Poland, 1921 to Sinai. Prior to WWII he lived in Lodz, Poland. During the war he was in Auschwitz, Poland. Lolek survived the Shoah.
Jews deported to or imprisoned in camps, ghettos or forced labor frameworks, who were in hiding, in clandestinity or resistance formations, or suffered relentless persecution under antisemitic legislation in territories controlled by the Nazis or their allies, and were alive by the end of 1945 are considered Shoah survivors.