Ignatz Schlomowicz
Ignatz Schlomowicz (born December 17, 1918 in Vienna ) was an Austrian prisoner of Jewish origin in various concentration camps during the Nazi era . During the time of his imprisonment in the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp and in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , he was a prisoner functionary . He was a defendant in the Bergen-Belsen trial and was acquitted.
Life
Schlomowicz, a salesman by profession, tried to emigrate from Vienna to Hungary because of the anti-Jewish riots in March 1938 during the “ Anschluss of Austria ” to the German Reich . However, since he did not receive an entry permit there, he traveled via Yugoslavia , Austria , the German Empire and Belgium to Holland , where he became a member of the Jewish community. At the end of 1939 he was arrested by the Dutch police and handed over to the Gestapo in Emmerich , Germany. After spending six weeks in prison, Schlomowicz was taken into protective custody for alleged "anti-German behavior" .
From November 1939 to July 1941 Schlomowicz was a prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He was then transferred with five hundred other Jewish prisoners to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp, where he was imprisoned until September 1942. From there he was sent to the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp, where he held the position of kapo from mid-1944 . In September 1944 Schlomowicz was transferred to the Laurahütte satellite camp of Auschwitz . In the course of the "evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp" in January 1945, he was brought to the Mauthausen concentration camp and from there to the Neuengamme subcamp in Hanover . The prisoners of this satellite camp, including Schlomowicz, were transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in the spring of 1945 and arrived there on April 8, 1945. Schlomowicz, most recently Kapo in Hanover, was appointed block leader on April 12, 1945 by one of the Belsen camp elders .
On April 16, 1945, one day after the camp was liberated by the British army, Schlomowicz and other block elders received from the British a white armband with the inscription MP It was your job to ensure that the food was distributed fairly to the prisoners. On April 20, 1945, Schlomowicz fell ill with typhus and cured the disease first in the prisoners' hospital and later in a hospital in Bergen . He was arrested on suspicion of ill-treatment on charges made by two inmates. The charges in the Bergen-Belsen trial in Lüneburg in 1945 related to the time in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Schlomowicz was acquitted of allegations of mistreatment of fellow prisoners on November 17th that year.
Nothing is known about his further life.
literature
- United Nations War Crimes Commission (Ed.): Law reports of trials of war criminals, selected and prepared by the United Nations War Crimes Commission. - Volume II, The Belsen Trial , London 1947
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| SURNAME | Schlomowicz, Ignatz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian prison functionary |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |