Tuviah Friedman
Tuviah Friedman (* 23. January 1922 in Radom , Poland ; † 13. January 2011 in Haifa , Israel ) was a Polish-Israeli author , who, after the Second World War until his death in tracking down former Nazis devoted to crimes against Had committed humanity . In addition, through his numerous documentaries, he contributed to bringing the chapter of the undisturbed Nazi criminals, which was largely suppressed in Germany and Austria in the 1950s and 1960s, into public discussion.
Life
Friedman's entire family, with the exception of his sister, were murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp after the Radom ghetto was cleared . He himself survived as a slave laborer. Immediately after his liberation, he began to hunt down Nazi criminals in what is now Polish Danzig - allegedly as a lieutenant in the Polish secret service.
In 1946 he founded the “ Wiener Documentation ”, which until 1952 under his direction searched for and exposed Nazis who had committed crimes against humanity . In 1952 Friedman gave the archives to the Yad Vashem .
From 1955 to June 1957 Friedman was head of an office at Yad Vashem in Haifa. In Haifa Friedman founded the "Institute of Documentation for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes" ( German: Documentation institute for investigations into Nazi war crimes ). It is, among other things, a result of his work that in 1965 the German Bundestag stopped the statute of limitations on Nazi crimes. The written acknowledgment of the Israeli government for the efforts of Lothar Hermann and Tuviah Friedman to find the former SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann and to bring him to Israel to bring him to justice was only confirmed on July 7, 1992.
The German National Library in Leipzig currently (August 2006) has 143 document books compiled by Tuviah Friedman.
See also
Publications
- The correspondence of the two Nazi researchers Tuviah Friedman and Simon Wiesenthal. 1st chapter. 1946–1950, Vienna-Linz. Part 2. 1950-2005. Institute of Documentation in Israel, Haifa 2005.
- as publisher: Eichmann's capture: my 15-year successful search for the Gestapo mass murderer Adolf Eichmann, who was brought to Israel from Argentina in May 1960 and brought to justice in Jerusalem. Institute of Documentation in Israel for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes, Haifa 2004.
- as Ed .: Police war criminal in Kolomea before the Vienna People's Court. Haifa 1957.
- Stryi bob war criminal. Haifa 1957.
- Stanislau police and Gestapo war criminals before the Vienna People's Court. Haifa 1957.
- Drohobycz police and Gestapo war criminals before the Vienna People's Court. Haifa 1958.
- The tragedy of Austrian Jewry. Report and document collection. Haifa 1958.
- The tragedy of Austrian Jewry. Association of Jews from Austria, Haifa 1958.
literature
- Stephan Stach: Practical History. The Contribution of Jewish Organizations to the Persecution of Nazi Criminals in Poland and Austria in the late 1940s. In: Fritz Bauer Institute (Ed.), Katharina Stengel (Ed.): Victims as Actors. Interventions by former Nazi victims in the post-war period. Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 242-262.
Web links
- Literature by and about Tôviyyā Friedman in the catalog of the German National Library
- Tuvia on the prowl, DER SPIEGEL 10/1961
Individual evidence
- ^ Tuviah Friedman, Tireless Pursuer of Nazis, Dies at 88. In: The New York Times. February 5, 2011 (accessed March 23, 2011)
- ↑ a b Klaus Hillenbrand : Tuviah Friedman has died: The almost forgotten Nazi hunter ; taz.de, January 16, 2011; last accessed on March 23, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Friedman, Tuviah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli founder of the "Vienna Documentation" |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 23, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Radom , Poland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 13, 2011 |
| Place of death | Haifa , Israel |