Pavel Fantl

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Pavel Fantl (born January 7, 1903 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; died January 7, 1945 near Hirschberg , Lower Silesia , German Empire ) was a Czechoslovak doctor and victim of the Holocaust .

Life

Pavel Fantl was the son of a textile retailer. He and his one year younger brother Ernst received private Hebrew lessons as well as drawing lessons. Fantl studied medicine at the Charles University in Prague. He married Manka Saxlova in 1935 and they had their son Tamás, born in 1937. Fantl joined the Czechoslovak Army as a military doctor in 1935. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939, he was discharged from the army as a Jew. He moved with his family to Kolín , where he had to do forced labor for the Gestapo to record the Jews in the district.

Pavel Fantl: Metamorphosis (1944)

In June 1942, Fantl was imprisoned with his wife and child and his mother Ida in the Theresienstadt ghetto concentration camp . In the hospital of the concentration camp he ran the hospital for typhus sufferers , and he also treated the girl Hana Lustigová , also known as Hana Greenfield, who survived the Shoah . Fantl used his position in the ghetto to send messages outside; eighty of his drawings could also be smuggled out of the concentration camp or were hidden with the help of Alisah and Zeev Shek . Fantl was established in October 1944 in the concentration camp Auschwitz deported , his wife and child were murdered immediately after their arrival, Fantl came to the forced labor in the concentration camp Schwarzheide . He was murdered by SS guards on a death march on January 7, 1945 near Hirschberg in Lower Silesia .

literature

  • Jörn Wendland: The warehouse from picture to picture. Narrative series of images of prisoners from Nazi forced camps . Böhlau, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50581-3 , pp. 199f.
  • Hana Greenfield : From Kolin to Jerusalem: Fragments from my memories . Translation by Margit Herrmann. Greven-Verlag, Jerusalem 1993, ISBN 9652290580

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zdenka Fantlova: “There is strength in calm,” said my father . From the Czech Pavel Eckstein. With a foreword by Jiří Gruša . Weidle, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-931135-38-1 . Zdenka Fantlová (actress, 1922-) is the daughter of Ernst Fantl.
personal data
SURNAME Fantl, Pavel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czechoslovak doctor and victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 1945
Place of death near Hirschberg , Lower Silesia