Ladislaus Szücs

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Ladislaus Szücs (born January 5, 1909 in Marosvásárhely , Transylvania , † January 23, 2000 in Bad Sassendorf ) was a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust , doctor and draftsman .

Life

Ladislaus Szücs graduated from high school in Romanian in 1927 and studied medicine and received his doctorate in Leipzig in 1933 . There he was one of the last so-called non-Aryan candidates and was increasingly confronted with anti-Semitism . From 1933 to 1936 he worked at the Israelite Hospital in Budapest and as an ENT doctor in Vienna . He was called up to Moldova as regimental doctor. There he married his first wife, Hedy. After he returned to Neumarkt for political reasons, he was arrested there in March 1944 after it was occupied by German troops. In April he and his wife were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and separated from each other. It was there that Szücs met the notorious concentration camp doctor Mengele . After the deportation from Birkenau to Mauthausen near Linz, Szücs was deployed in the Melk subcamp on the Danube in the so-called “Quarz Stollen”, which was intended for underground aircraft engine construction. Finally he ended up disguised as a sick person in the "Revier" (the infirmary), where he and the other doctors working there tried to save lives under the most primitive conditions. There he met resistance, in which he immediately took part. After a long death march to the Ebensee concentration camp . On May 7, 1945, Szücs and the other survivors were finally liberated by the Third US Army and he returned to the now communist-Romanian Transylvania, worked as a doctor and suffered from poor living conditions such as dictatorship, poverty and lack of freedom. Several attempts to emigrate failed.

In the 1960s he began to record his memories of the period of persecution in ink drawings that were later exhibited several times: skulls, the hanged man, skeletons, reflections on torture, abuse, suffering and death. When he reached retirement age, Ladislaus Szücs was finally allowed to travel to Germany with his family in 1974 and settled as a doctor in Bad Sassendorf. Decades later, at the age of 82, he felt able to write down his memories of the experiences in German concentration camps , which appeared in 1995 in Frankfurt am Main under the title roll call . With this relentless report he wanted to “free himself from the burden of memory” and prevent “the story of the innocent and guilty from being carried to the grave”.

Works

  • Contribution to olecranon fracture treatment based on the cases treated at the Leipzig Clinic from 1912–1932. Dissertation, University of Leipzig, October 6, 1933.
  • Roll call. As a doctor in the concentration camp. Edited and provided with a foreword by Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer . Life pictures. Jewish memories and testimonies . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995.
  • Helen Quandt: Salt of Tears. Drawings by Ladislaus Szücs. Doctor in the concentration camp. Düsseldorf memorial, Düsseldorf 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Books on the subject: Reports from Auschwitz Survivors. In: Spiegel Online . December 2, 2001, accessed May 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Szucs, Ladislaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Hungarian-Romanian survivor of the Holocaust, doctor and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Marosvásárhely , Transylvania
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 2000
Place of death Bad Sassendorf