Arno Lustiger
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Arno Lustiger (May 7, 1924 – May 15, 2012)
He was the father of the author Gila Lustiger and cousin to Jean-Marie Lustiger, archbishop of Paris.[2]
Life
Lustiger was born and grew up in
However, the family was torn apart. Lustiger was deported to the concentration camp Ottmuth and later to Blechhammer, a subcamp of Auschwitz. Starting from January 21, 1945 Lustiger had to join the death march during the freezing winter towards the Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Lower Silesia, as the Soviet troops were approaching. Only half of the 4.000 inmates survived the death march. Later he was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp and to the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp near Halberstadt. There the expectancy of life was around three or four weeks.
In April 1945 Lustiger escaped during another death march, when the concentration camp was closed due to the approaching American troops. He was rescued by American soldiers and became a uniformed and armed translator of the US Army.
Since the end of the Second World War Lustiger had lived in
On January 27, 2005, Arno Lustiger held a speech in front of the
On May 15, 2012, Lustiger died in
Awards
- 1984 – Bundesverdienstkreuz(Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
- 1994 – Bundesverdienstkreuz Ist class
- 1999 – Moses Mendelssohn award
- 1999 – Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt
- 2000 – International Brücke award of Görlitz
- 2001 – Heinz-Galinski-prize (shared with Wolf Biermann)
- 2003 – Honorary doctorate of University of Potsdam
- 2007 – Hessen
- 2009 – Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz (Grand Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
External links
- Arno Lustiger's legacy in the Jewish Museum Frankfurt with a list of his publications.
References
- ^ Arno Lustiger verstorben (in German) in Jüdische Allgemeine, May 16, 2012
- ^ a b "Arno Lustiger, historian and Holocaust survivor, dies at 88". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. May 16, 2012. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012. Retrieved June 5, 2012.
- ^ "Gastprofessur am Fritz Bauer Institut Prof. Dr. h.c. Arno Lustiger" (in German). Fritz Bauer Institut. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved May 25, 2010.
- ^ Arno Lustiger – Historiker des jüdischen Widerstands (in German), May 16, 2012