Thomas Geve

Stefan Cohn is a redirect to this article. On the mathematician see Stefan Cohn-Vossen ; on the soccer player see Stefan Kohn .

Thomas Geve

Thomas Geve (born as Stefan Cohn on October 27, 1929 in Züllchow ) is an Israeli civil engineer and Holocaust survivor.

Life

Stefan Cohn was the son of a surgeon who was dismissed from his position in 1933 after power was handed over to the National Socialists. The father succeeded in emigrating to England in 1939, his wife and son were unable to follow after the outbreak of war in 1939. Cohn worked for a time as a worker at the Weißensee cemetery ; in 1943 he and his mother were deported from the concentration camp assembly camp in Berlin's Große Hamburger Strasse to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where his mother was murdered. He was trained in the bricklaying school in Auschwitz and was deployed in work details of the Union ammunition works and in bunker construction. In 1945 he ended up on evacuation marches to the Groß-Rosen concentration camp and the Buchenwald concentration camp , from which he was liberated.

He was taken into a Swiss children's home by the Buchenwald campaign and painted a series of pictures from the immediate impression. In autumn 1945 he was able to travel to England to live with his father. Thomas Geve graduated from Norwood Technical College in London and received an engineering degree from Willesden Technical College . In 1950 he emigrated to Israel , where he worked as a civil engineer after completing his military service. He started a family in Haifa . In 1958 he published a memorial report on the time in prison, and in 1995 his drawings of the time in prison were shown for the first time at exhibitions. In old age he traveled to Europe several times as a contemporary witness .

Works

• Youth in chains . Jerusalem: Mass, 1958
  • Robbed childhood . Konstanz: Südverlag, 1993 ISBN 978-3-87800-011-2
• There are no children here. Auschwitz, Groß-Rosen, Buchenwald. Drawings by a child historian . Edited by Volkhard Knigge (German, English, Hebrew) Göttingen 1996, ISBN 978-3-89244-220-2
• New beginnings: living on after Auschwitz . Konstanz: Südverlag, 2000 ISBN 978-3-87800-030-3

literature

• Jörn Wendland: The warehouse from picture to picture. Narrative series of images of prisoners from Nazi forced camps . Vienna: Böhlau, 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-50581-3 , pp. 200f.

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Geve in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Thomas Geve in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Thomas Geve , website
• Thomas Geve , at Yad Vashem