Arnold Erlanger
Arnold Erlanger ( July 22, 1916 in Ichenhausen - February 11, 2007 in Melbourne ) was a German-Australian Jewish survivor of several Nazi camps and an important contemporary witness .
Life
He was the son of the butcher Levi Erlanger (1882–1943) and his wife Hedwig geb. Gutmann (1887-1942).
Arnold Erlanger fled from National Socialism to the Netherlands , where he was arrested after the occupation of the country in World War II and then sent to various concentration camps . His ordeal led him from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz , Buchenwald and Flossenbürg concentration camps . After the liberation, Arnold Erlanger returned to the Netherlands, where he married a Jewish widow with two daughters in 1947. As the terrible experiences robbed him of sleep night after night, he emigrated to Australia , where he died in 2007.
The city of Ichenhausen named a street after him in his memory.
literature
- Gernot Römer (Ed.) / Arnold Erlanger (Author): A Swabian survived Auschwitz. Arnold Erlanger from Ichenhausen. Life reports of Jews from Swabia . Wißner-Verlag , 2nd edition, Augsburg 2002. ISBN 3-89639-349-9 (not evaluated)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Weber: Hitler's First War: Adolf Hitler, the Men of the List Regiment, and the First World War . OUP Oxford, 2010, ISBN 978-0-19-161362-3 ( page 598 ).
- ↑ Neue Straße commemorates Arnold Erlanger In: Augsburger Allgemeine from May 2, 2008 (accessed October 7, 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Erlanger, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Australian Jewish survivor of several Nazi camps and contemporary witness |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 22, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ichenhausen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 11, 2007 |
| Place of death | Melbourne |