Loden bird
Loden Vogel ( pseudonym for Louis Tas) (born December 25, 1920 in Amsterdam ; † April 14, 2011 ibid) was a Dutch doctor , psychotherapist and surviving witness of the Holocaust .
Life
Louis Tas came from a middle-class family in Amsterdam. When he graduated from high school, he began studying medicine . After the occupation of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht , he and his entire family were deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp via the Westerbork transit camp in 1944 . Here he kept a secret diary about life in the camp in continuation of his previously practiced habit . He used diluted ink to prevent his writing material from drying up prematurely. This book later became an important source work for the analysis of the concentration camp system and was published in several editions.
Loden Vogel was liberated by the Red Army near Tröbitz on April 23, 1945 and returned to Amsterdam. In 1946 he published his diary under the pseudonym Loden Vogel ("Bleierner Vogel"). After completing his specialist training , he worked as a psychotherapist from 1958 to 2009.
Louis Tas died in 2011 at the age of 90.
Publications
- Loden Vogel: diary from a warehouse , from the Dutch. by Mirjam Pressler . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 978-3-525-35132-1
- Louis M. Tas and Jörg Wiesse (eds.): Ererbte Traumata , Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2002
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bird, loden |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tas, Louis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch contemporary witness and survivor of the Shoa |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 25, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 14, 2011 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |