Alfred Rossner

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Alfred Roßner (* December 17, 1906 in Oelsnitz / Vogtl. , † December 18, 1943 (date questionable) in Sosnowiec ) was a German entrepreneur from the Saxon Vogtland , who saved numerous Jews from deportation in German-occupied Poland during the Nazi era . He is also known as " Oskar Schindler des Vogtlandes".

Life

Alfred Roßner was born in Oelsnitz in 1906 and grew up in Falkenstein in Vogtland . Because of his poor health, the Wehrmacht decommissioned him. The textile merchant came in 1940 to the small Polish town of Będzin ( Zagłębie Dąbrowskie region , Dombrowa coal basin , in the annexed new " East Upper Silesia ") and was employed there as a trustee for expropriated Jewish companies. Uniforms for the German Wehrmacht were made in the tailoring workshops under his control, which at times employed 8,000 people , and production was considered essential to the war effort. That is why Rossner's subordinates were given special IDs that to a certain extent protected them from being deported to the extermination camps . Close relatives were also protected. Roßner did everything in his power to protect Jews in his area of ​​responsibility from murder. How many people he was able to save is unclear. In the summer of 1943 the Będzin ghetto was liquidated. The Gestapo learned of Rossner's activities, he was arrested and died in December 1943 in the prison in Sosnowiec (Sosnowitz); According to another account, he was executed a month later. Nothing is known about the reasons for the judgment.

Roßner's story was forgotten for a long time. But Jews rescued by him brought about his posthumous honor as Righteous Among the Nations in Yad Vashem in 1995 . In 2010, a memorial plaque for Roßner was put up in the cemetery in Falkenstein.

literature

  • Hannah Miska: The silent trade. Alfred Roßner - Lifesaver in the Shadow of the SS. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, 2018 ISBN 978-3-96311-127-3
    • Book presentation at the Trützschler-Oberschule Falkenstein, whose pupil Roßner was once.
  • Będzin , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 p. 29

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfred Roßner is Oskar Schindler des Vogtlandes , Kulturvision, by Monika Ziegler, January 26, 2019
  2. ↑ Yad Vashem
  3. ^ Oberschule Falkenstein, book presentation
  4. ↑ Yad Vashem
  5. ↑ At the Falkensteiner / Ellefelder Friedhof, Roßner is honored with a plaque at the memorial for the victims of fascism bearing his name and the dates of his life. City of Falkenstein
personal data
SURNAME Rossner, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneurs and Righteous Among the Nations
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Oelsnitz / Vogtl.
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 1943
Place of death Sosnowiec