Gad Beck
Gad Beck (* the thirtieth June 1923 in Berlin , † 24 June 2012 ) was a German Jewish resistance fighters in the era of National Socialism .
Life
Gad Beck was born in 1923 into a Jewish family and grew up in Berlin-Weißensee , where he attended elementary school. In 1941 he joined the Hechaluz , a group that organized the Jewish settlement of Palestine and various forms of political resistance, including work in the underground.
During the last two years of the war, as head of the Chug Chaluzi , he organized the survival of numerous Jews in hiding .
After the war he first lived in Munich . In 1947 he emigrated to Israel , where he lived for over 30 years. He had lived with his Czech partner Julius Laufer since the early 1970s. In 1979 they returned to Germany. This was followed by close collaboration with Heinz Galinski , the then chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany . Gad Beck became head of the Jewish Adult Education Center.
In 1995 Beck published the “Memories” of a homosexual, Jewish Berlin resident and attracted a lot of attention: “ And Gad went to David ”. However, the autobiographical authenticity is controversial. The makers of the documentary Die Freiheit des Erzählens (2006) on the life of Gad Beck comment on this: “It seems that Gad Beck occasionally abandons historical truth for the sake of pointing his stories. Above all, he fulfills a need of his audience or of all those memories who, in search of the dramatic and spectacular and the audience, want to have history told in a special way. "
Subsequently, Gad Beck appeared with numerous lectures and readings in Europe and the USA.
literature
- And Gad went to David. The memories of Gad Beck 1923 to 1945. Edition diá, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-86034-313-0 ; E-Book: Edition diá 2012, ISBN 978-3-86034-501-6 (Epub), ISBN 978-3-86034-601-3 (Mobi)
- Gad Beck - organizer in the underground , in Ferdinand Kroh : David fights. On the Jewish resistance against Hitler. Rowohlt, Hamburg 1988 ISBN 349915644X pp. 143-162
Web links
- Literature by and about Gad Beck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography of the German Resistance Memorial Center
- The freedom of storytelling - The life of Gad Beck
- Gad Beck at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (English)
- "Do you remember, when" - An online exhibition at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (English)
- Gad Beck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Benjamin Weinthal: Last gay Jewish Holocaust survivor this. In: The Jerusalem Post , June 25, 2012 (English).
- ↑ The freedom of storytelling. The life of Gad Beck
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Beck, Gad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German resistance fighters against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 2012 |
| Place of death | Berlin |