Felix Rausch

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Felix Rausch (born December 10, 1908 in Vienna ; died August 20, 1976) was a Jewish office clerk and survivor of the Holocaust .

Rausch was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939 . He was transferred from Buchenwald to the Auschwitz concentration camp on October 19, 1942 . Rausch spent most of his imprisonment in camp area III of the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp and was assigned prisoner number 68,626. Together with another inmate, Stefan Heymann , who served his time in the Monowitz infirmary , Rausch wrote precise information on the deaths in Monowitz ("Book of the Dead") over a longer period of time, which is an important historical document for recording the victims of the Holocaust. After the "evacuation" of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945, he was returned to the Buchenwald concentration camp.

After the liberation from National Socialism , he worked as an accountant in Vienna. He was actively involved in the IAK . Among other things, he testified as a witness at the trial against Bernhard Rakers and at the trial against the Nazi doctor Horst Fischer .

Individual evidence

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  4. ^ "Numbers of the victims". Wollheim Memorial. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
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  6. ^ "People in Auschwitz", Hermann Langbein. Page 298. The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. ISBN 0-8078-2816-5
  7. "Death for Murder". TIME online. Retrieved February 10, 2016.