Peter Dattel

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Peter Dattel (born July 29, 1939 in Berlin ) is the only one of around 8,000 children from Berlin deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp who survived the extermination camp .

Life

The Dattel family was deported to Auschwitz in June 1943. When he was three years old, like all prisoners, the prisoner number was tattooed on his arm. His father Hans had to do forced labor in the Buna camp before he was gassed . Peter and his mother were assigned to the human experimentation department. Adult inmates protected Peter Dattel from being assigned to murder and provided him with food. When his mother Ruth was assigned to a death march during the evacuation of the camp in January 1945 , their child stayed behind. Peter experienced the end of the war in Mauthausen concentration camp and came to live with a foster family in Brno .

After her own liberation from the Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp in May 1945 , Ruth Dattel returned to Berlin and began looking for her son with the help of the Jewish community . After two years he could be found through the International Red Cross . The now seven-year-old Peter had to be forced to go to Berlin because he did not want to separate from his foster parents. He could no longer communicate with his mother because he had forgotten the German language during his time in Brno .

On the occasion of Peter Dattel's return, the Jewish Community of Berlin held a festival attended by representatives of the occupying powers , the magistrate and the Czechoslovak military attaché .

literature

  • ADN: The only surviving child . In: Der Tagesspiegel , January 22, 1947
  • Julia Edwards: Child Auschwitz survivor comes home . In: The Stars and Stripes , February 2, 1947, here:
  • Atina Grossmann : Home and Displacement in a City of Bordercrossers: Jews in Berlin 1945–1948 . In: Leslie Morris / Jack Zipes (eds.): Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis, 1945-2000 , Springer 2016, ISBN 9780230109285 , pp. 63-100
  • Atina Grossmann: Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany , Princeton University Press 2009, ISBN 9780691143170 , pp. 103f
  • Julius Meyer : Peter Dattel back with his mother . In: The path no.6 of February 7, 1947, here:
  • o. V., The only surviving child from Auschwitz comes back to Berlin . In: Der Weg Nr. 29 of September 13, 1946, o.p. here:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ n.v., The only surviving child from Auschwitz comes back to Berlin , in: Der Weg No. 29 of September 13, 1946, n.p.
  2. ^ N.v. , The only surviving child from Auschwitz comes back to Berlin . In: Der Weg No. 29, September 13, 1946, o.p.
  3. ↑ Julius Meyer: Peter Dattel back with his mother . In: Der Weg No. 6, February 7, 1947, no p.
  4. ^ N.v. , The only surviving child from Auschwitz comes back to Berlin . In: Der Weg No. 29, September 13, 1946, o.p.
  5. ^ Atina Grossmann: Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany , Princeton University Press 2009, ISBN 9780691143170 , p. 104
  6. ↑ https://www.stripes.com/news/from-the-ss-archives-child-auschwitz-survivor-comes-home-1.70473
personal data
SURNAME Date, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp (as the only Berlin child)
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin