Oliver Lustig
Oliver Lustig (born November 4, 1926 in Șoimeni , Cluj district ; † April 19, 2017 ) was a Jewish - Romanian journalist and author whose main subject was the Shoah . He survived the Auschwitz extermination camp and the subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp .
Life
Lustig was arrested on May 3, 1944, along with most of his family members, taken to the police station in Fodora and the Cluj assembly camp , and from there deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on the fifth freight train from Cluj between June 6 and 9, 1944 . In September 1944, now separated from his family, he and his brother Emilian were transported to a subcamp of the Dachau concentration camp near Landsberg am Lech ( Kaufering 4 and 5 in Utting ) for forced labor . He received the prisoner no. 112,398. There he was liberated by the US Army on April 27, 1945.
In Romania he graduated from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj in 1949 . In 1974 he received his Ph.D. in economics. He worked for the Romanian military as a journalist and retired in 1986 as Major General of the Reserve.
Works
(Selection; mostly in Romanian)
- From the shadows into the crematorium (“Din umbra crematoriului”) , 1960
- A life in the kingdom of death ("Viața în imperiul morții") , 1969
- then, there ... in Auschwitz ("Atunci, acolo ... la Auschwitz") , 1977
- Language of Death ("Limbajul morții") , 1986
- Journal Covered in Blood ("Jurnal însîngerat") , 1987
- Concentration Camp Dictionary. ("Dicționar de lagăr", 1982; 2nd edition 2002, Internet Edition, 2005)
- Translations
- Éva Heyman's diary (Jurnalul lui Éva Heyman - "Am trăit atît de puțin."; From Hungarian into Romanian; 1991)
Web links
- Camp Dictionary, online version ( see Concentration Camp Dictionary, 1982; multilingual: Hungarian, German, English , Portuguese and Italian. At isurvived.org . Compare the article: Auschwitz Album )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Lustig on comiteinternationaldachau.com, accessed on June 12, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Funny, Oliver |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Jewish-Romanian journalist and book author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Șoimeni , Cluj County |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th April 2017 |