Ota Kraus

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Ota Kraus (born September 7, 1909 in Skalice Monastery , Kolin District , Central Bohemia , died July 10, 2001 ) was a Jewish-Czech writer and journalist.

Life

Ota Kraus was born as the son of Richard Krause and Elisabeth, geb. Beckmannova was born in the village of Skalice Monastery . He trained as a locksmith and became a radio salesman. Soon after his marriage to Božena Vlasákova, their son Ivan Kraus was born. As a radio salesman, he began to get involved in the resistance and was arrested by the Gestapo in April 1940 for distributing a magazine. He came to Auschwitz (November 1942 to October 1944) via the Theresienstadt and Dachau concentration camps , where he had the prisoner number 73.046 and worked with Erich Kulka in a workshop. Shortly before he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp , his brother Vilém died. He was the father of five children named Ivan, Eliška, Michael, Jan and Kateřina.

After the Second World War he lived in Prague and worked as a journalist and writer on the subject of the Holocaust . Jan Kraus is one of his four other children .

Works

  • With Erich Kulka: The death factory. Translated from the Czech by Zora Weil-Zimmering. Congress, Berlin 1957.
  • With Erich Kulka, Hanna Tichy: mass murder and profit. The fascist extermination policy and its economic background. Dietz, 1963.

literature

  • Ernst Klee : Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices, victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ota Kraus on photos.geni.com ( Memento from April 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Czech)
personal data
SURNAME Kraus, Ota
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak writer and journalist, Holocaust survivor
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Klášterní Skalice , Okres Kolín
DATE OF DEATH July 10, 2001