Hanuš Jochowitz

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Hanuš Jochowitz , also Jindřich Jochowitz , Hans Jochowitz and Heinrich Jochowitz (born March 8, 1920 in Bodenbach , Czechoslovakia ; died in spring 1945 probably in Buchenwald concentration camp , German Reich ) was a Czechoslovak violinist and pianist and a singer and actor in the camp . Jochowitz was a victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Born in Bohemia and the son of a farmer, he started a civil service career after graduating from high school . However, he made a name for himself as a young musician. During the German occupation, the National Socialists deported the Jew Jochowitz on December 22, 1942 with Transport Ck, No. 731 from Prague to the Theresienstadt ghetto . There the young man got involved in the cultural activities of the camp. He took part in theater life as a reciter and actor and also took part in the camp choir. On September 28, 1944, Hanuš Jochowitz was deported to Auschwitz with Transport Ek, No. 2073, and in January 1945 he was "evacuated" via the Kaufering concentration camp (west of Munich) to the Buchenwald concentration camp in view of the approaching Red Army troops. Here he died a little later under unexplained circumstances.

Web links

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 394.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of Lecturers in Ghetto Theresienstadt as early as November 1944 in the Kaufering concentration camp
  2. ↑ according to a police personal check on August 22, 1940
personal data
SURNAME Jochowitz, Hanuš
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jochowitz, Jindřich; Jochowitz, Hans; Jochowitz, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak violinist and pianist as well as a singer and actor in the camp
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Bodenbach , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH 1945
Place of death uncertain: Buchenwald concentration camp , German Empire