Karel after work

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Karel Feierabend (born November 4, 1861 in Kostelec nad Orlicí , † June 4, 1945 in Prague ) was a Czechoslovak university professor , opponent of National Socialism and the oldest prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp .

Life

The following important information is missing from this article or section:
Time before 1942
Help Wikipedia by researching and pasting it .

His son Ladislav Karel Feierabend emigrated to London in February 1940, where he was minister in the Czechoslovak government in exile . After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich , who died in Prague on 4 June 1942 the relatives of the minister were from the Gestapo in Sippenhaft taken and first in the Theresienstadt ghetto deported . Karel Feierabend was sent to the Dachau concentration camp on September 11, 1942 with the other son Karel and two grandchildren. The female family members of the minister were deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

Because of his old age, his chances of survival were slim. At 81 years of age, he was the oldest prisoner in the camp, and he was always at risk of going on the so-called invalid transports or of being murdered in the infirmary. But fellow prisoners hid him in the infirmary until the end of the war , when transports and selections were imminent. The head nurse Heinrich Stöhr hid Karel Feierabend, along with other endangered prisoners, in the prominent room in the infirmary.

He was 83 years old when it was liberated. He died in Prague on June 4, 1945, a few days after returning home.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 4, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gedenkstaettenpaedagogik-bayern.de
  2. ^ Stanislav Zámečník : (Ed. Comité International de Dachau): That was Dachau . Luxemburg, 2002, ISBN 2-87996-948-4 , pp. 328f
  3. ↑ http://www.hdbg.de/dachau/pdfs/07/07_14/07_14_01.pdf Retrieved July 4, 2011
personal data
SURNAME After work, Karel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak university professor, opponent of National Socialism and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Kostelec nad Orlicí
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 1945
Place of death Prague