Wladyslaw Fejkiel
Władysław Fejkiel (born January 1, 1911 in Krościenko ; † 1995 ) was a Polish doctor as well as a university professor and prisoner doctor in the Auschwitz concentration camp .
Life
After primary school, Fejkiel attended grammar school in Lviv and then studied medicine at the University of Lviv . He was promoted to Dr. med. PhD . After the attack on Poland , at the beginning of the Second World War , the doctor was employed as a military doctor in the Polish armed forces. After he was able to escape from German captivity, he was picked up again by Gestapo officials in Jaslo in August 1940 after helping a comrade to cross the border into Hungary . He was taken to the prison in Tarnów and from there on October 8, 1940, transferred to the main camp of Auschwitz .
In Auschwitz he was given prisoner number 5647 and was initially employed in road construction. From February 1941 - emaciated to 39 kilograms - he was housed in the prisoner infirmary (HKB) of the main camp, where he was finally carried the faeces and in the summer of 1941 a prisoner attendant. From 1942, as a prisoner doctor, he headed the infection department in Block 20 of the main camp, where, on the instructions of SS camp doctor Hellmuth Vetter, he had to give 50 prisoners a remedy for typhus from IG Farben . Only two thirds of the inmates survived this series of experiments. In January 1944 he succeeded the Polish prisoner doctor Władysław Alexander Dering as camp elder of the prisoner infirmary in the main camp of Auschwitz and remained in this position until the war-related "evacuation" of the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1945. He was transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp on an evacuation transport . where he was liberated at the end of the war in May 1945.
After the liberation he returned to Poland. From 1955 he was a lecturer and from 1960 full professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where he headed the Infectious Diseases Clinic. Fejkiel testified as a witness on May 29, 1964 during the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. He was the author of several articles in the Auschwitz notebooks .
The Auschwitz survivor Hermann Langbein assesses him as follows: "Fejkiel was the first top Polish official who sought to reduce both excessive Polish nationalism and anti-Semitism among the HKB staff".
literature
- Hermann Langbein : People in Auschwitz , Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Vienna, 1980; ISBN 3-548-33014-2 .
- 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
- Fritz Bauer Institute : Interrogation of the witness Władysław Fejkiel on the 50th day of the trial of the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial, May 29, 1964 (tape recording)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date and place of birth according to: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 113
- ↑ Year of death and according to Stanisław M. Jankowski, Ryszard Kotarba, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej - Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu: Wydawn. Towarzystwa Naukowego "Societas Vistulana", 2003, p. 122
- ↑ a b Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 113
- ↑ Quoted from: Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. An encyclopedia of persons , Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 113
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fejkiel, Wladyslaw |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish doctor as well as university professor and prisoner doctor in Auschwitz concentration camp |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 1, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krościenko |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1995 |