Between Katz
Zwi Katz ; Hebrew צבי כץ; (Born July 10, 1927 in Kaunas ) is a Lithuanian Holocaust survivor and author who emigrated to Israel .
Life
Zwi Katz was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1927 and grew up in a middle-class Jewish family. After the Wehrmacht invaded Lithuania, he was imprisoned in the Kaunas ghetto in the summer of 1941 . After its dissolution in 1944, Katz was deported to the Kaufering concentration camp, a satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp . At the end of April 1945 he and the other prisoners were driven by the SS towards the Alps on the so-called death march from Dachau and liberated by the US Army in Waakirchen in Upper Bavaria . After his liberation, he embarked on a multi-year odyssey through Europe and the Mediterranean and reached Israel in 1948, where he started a family and worked in the Ministry of Agriculture.
In the eighties, Zwi Katz began to deal intensively with his past. He speaks as a contemporary witness at schools in Germany and Israel, is a regular participant in commemorative events and for many years was deputy chairman of the Association of Survivors of the Dachau Landsberg / Kaufering satellite camps. In 2002 Zwi Katz published his autobiographical book "From the banks of the Memel into the unknown. A youth in the shadow of the Holocaust".
Honors
- In 2004, Zwi Katz was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his commitment .
Fonts
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From the banks of the Memel into the unknown. A youth in the shadow of the Holocaust . Afterword by Christoph Dieckmann . Pendo Verlag, Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-85842-490-0 (new edition: Allitera Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86906-074-3 ).
- Hebrew edition: Sovevuni lahaṭ esh boʿeret ... Mi-gedot ha-Naiman el ha-bilti noda ( Hebrew סובבוני להט אש בוערת־־ מגדות הנימן אל הבלתי נודע, translated: To turn in the dance in the midst of blazing fire. From the banks of the Memel into the unknown ). Misrad ha-Bitachon ( Hebrew משרד הביטחון), Tel Aviv 2005, ISBN 965-05-1295-0 .
literature
- Maria Ecker, Peter Linhuber: The moderated eyewitness talk with Zwi Katz. A field report and interview with Zwi Katz . In: Sabine Aschauer-Smolik (Ed.): Tamid Kadima - Always forward. The Jewish Exodus from Europe 1945–1948 . Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4990-5 , pp. 327-372.
Web links
- Literature by and about Zwi Katz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Zwi Katz in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography of Zwi Katz from the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
- Zwi Katz visits the alpha forum
- From the banks of the Memel into the unknown. Review note in Perlentaucher
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Katz, Zwi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Holocaust survivor and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaunas |