Josef Jakubowicz

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Josef Jakubowicz (born October 10, 1925 in Oświęcim , Poland , † May 22, 2013 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz ) was a Polish-German Holocaust survivor who survived eleven camps and later became known as a city through the documentation Auschwitz .

Life

Josef Jakubowicz was born in Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz) as the youngest child of a Jewish family. He had a happy childhood. After the invasion of Poland in 1939, his hometown, where many Jews lived, was also occupied. His parents and all other relatives - 34 family members - were deported and murdered in 1940 . The 15-year-old youth had to work as a forced laborer in the construction of the Auschwitz I concentration camp . This was followed by an odyssey in a total of around eleven intermediate, transit and concentration camps ; he was imprisoned in Flossenbürg , Annaberg, Breslau-Neukirch, Groß-Rosen , Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen . On April 15, 1945, he was liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

He gave many lectures in schools. An exhibition in Middle Franconia paid tribute to the life of the man who was also active in the fight against old and neo-Nazis. His book Auschwitz is also a city was published in 2005 and was translated into English in the same year. The book, for which the author Ralph Giordano wrote the greeting, describes the life of the author as well as the rich life of the Jewish community before the Holocaust and the attack on Poland. In 2009, based on Jakubowicz's book, the documentary Auschwitz is also a city was filmed, in which Jakubowicz, along with other Holocaust survivors, but also a childhood friend and a former employee of IG-Farben , had a say. In addition, the viewer learns a lot about Jewish life in the city. Jakubowicz spoke fluent Hebrew, Polish, German and lived in Nuremberg . On May 22, 2013, Josef Jakubowicz died at the age of 87 after a long, serious illness in a hospital in Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate .

plant

  • Auschwitz is also a city, Thiemo Graf Verlag, 2005.
  • Auschwitz is also a city, Thiemo Graf Verlag 2005.

literature

  • Birgit Mair: Survival reports by Josef Jakubowicz: a biographical analysis , 2006.

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personal data
SURNAME Jakubowicz, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Oświęcim , Poland
DATE OF DEATH 22. May 2013
Place of death Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate