1920's
1925 - 25th October, Romek Marber was born.
1930's
1939 - deported to the Bochnia ghetto.
1940's
1942 - saved from being sent to the Belzec death camp by Sergeant Kurzbach.
1946 - arrived in Britain, reunited with his father and brother, working at a London clothing factory.
1950's
Early 1950's - enrolled at St. Martin's School of Art.
1953 - attended the Royal College of Art.
Late 1950's - worked on projects, including covers for The Economist and New Society.
1960's
1961 - commissioned by Germano Facetti to design covers for Simeon Potter's 'Our Language' and 'Language in the modern world'.
1964 - employed as artistic director for The Observer Magazine.
1960's - 70's - The Marber Grid layout adopted for all Penguin books.
1980's
1989 - retired as a designer, became a Professor Emeritus of Middlesex University.
2010's
2010 - published an autobiography on his experiences during World War II, 'No Return: Journeys in the Holocaust'.
2013 - The Minories, Colchester exhibited a retrospective of graphic work designed by Romek Marber for Penguin books, The Economist, New Society and other works. The exhibition went on to be shown at the University of Brighton and the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow.
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