Miloš Volf

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Miloš Volf (born June 2, 1924 in Tábor , Czechoslovakia ; † January 27, 2012 ) was a Czech freedom fighter who survived captivity in Theresienstadt and Flossenbürg during the Second World War . He was honorary chairman of the working group for the former Flossenbürg e. V. (ArGe).

Life

He attended a school and helped in the grocery store his father. After the occupation of the country in 1939, the family took part in the resistance that fought for the restoration of pre-war Czechoslovakia . Participation in the underground movement was punishable by death; at best one was deported to a concentration camp . The then 15-year-old worked as a liaison for this movement. His parents hid wanted persons, like Frantisek Pavelka a parachutist, from the Gestapo .

Imprisonment in concentration camps

The entire family was arrested in February 1943 and taken to the Small Fortress Theresienstadt concentration camp . They were held there for months and subjected to brutal interrogation. On February 7, 1944 Milos and his father Josef Volf came in the Flossenburg concentration camp, his mother and grandmother were in the women's concentration camp deported . In Flossenbürg, both had to work first in the quarry, then in aircraft construction for the Messerschmitt company. Milos became number 3377 .

The underground organization got him a somewhat easier job than block clerk. Thanks to his artistic talent, he was commissioned by the Kapos and SS people to draw greeting cards for them, for which he could also exchange food for himself and others. His position as a block clerk gave him paper and stationery, which, despite the threat of death, allowed him to secretly make some drawings for himself, which he then hid under his mattress. He drew and colored under conditions that could not be more hostile to art and life-threatening. Three of these watercolor paintings were preserved because Volf took them with him when he was driven on the death march on April 20, 1945 . After father and son were liberated by the Americans on the death march , they returned to Tábor in May 1945.

After captivity

After the war he became a manager in children's and youth television. In socialist Czechoslovakia, the democratically minded family is being persecuted again. The father was sent to a labor camp in the late 1940s . After the crackdown on the “ Prague Spring ” in 1968, Milos lost his job on Czech children's television. He dedicated himself to the German-Czech reconciliation work well into old age. He built up the organization of the former Flossenbürg in Czechoslovakia and is honorary chairman of the Arbeitsgemeinschaftlicher KZ Flossenbürg e. V. (ArGe). He still takes part in numerous exhibitions today , showing his works and those of other former prisoners.

Movies

  • The Flossenbürg concentration camp . 32 min., G. Vanselow, P. Heigl, G. Faul, FRG 1995 (Jaroslav Venclik and Milos Volf report on their time in the concentration camp.)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Profile of Miloš Volf ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2007 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. (accessed on December 3, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arge-kz-flossenbuerg.de
  2. ^ Peter Lang: Greetings from the concentration camp , regensburg-digital from April 14, 2008.
  3. ↑ Dortmund Media Center ( Memento of the original dated August 1, 2007 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dortmundermedienzentrum.de
personal data
SURNAME Volf, Miloš
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech freedom fighter and Nazi victim
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Tábor , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2012