Pery Broad
Pery Broad | |
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Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials | |
Personal details | |
Born | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 25 April 1921
Died | 28 November 1993 Düsseldorf, Germany | (aged 72)
Military service | |
Allegiance | Nazi Germany |
Branch/service | Schutzstaffel |
Rank | SS-Unterscharführer |
Pery Broad, also Perry Broad, (25 April 1921 – 28 November 1993) was a Brazilian-born German non-commissioned officer in the Schutzstaffel (SS) active at Auschwitz concentration camp from April 1942 to 1945. He reached the rank of SS-Unterscharführer while working as a translator and stenographer in the camp headquarters.[1] As a prisoner after the war, he wrote a historically valuable account of the camp's operation, dubbed the Broad Report.
Broad, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1921, came to Berlin with his mother at the age of five. He studied at the
He remained in Auschwitz until the dissolution of the camp in early 1945, and was captured by British armed forces. While a prisoner of war, he voluntarily wrote a report about his experiences in Auschwitz.[3]
Released in 1947, he again was arrested 12 years later, then freed in December 1960 after the payment of
Published English translations of the Broad Report
- Broad, Pery (1965). Smolen, Kazimierz; Bezwińska, Jadwiga; Brandhuber, Jerzy; Czech, Danuta (eds.). KZ Auschwitz: reminiscences of Pery Broad, SS-man in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Translated by Michalik, Krystyna. Oświȩcim, Poland: OCLC 799364.
- republished in KL Auschwitz seen by the SS. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1972. pp. 139–198. ISBN 9780865273467– via Internet Archive.
- reprinted in the United States by Howard Fertig, ISBN 9780865275041
- republished in KL Auschwitz seen by the SS. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 1972. pp. 139–198.
- Naumann, Bernd (1966). "The Broad Report". Auschwitz: A Report on the Proceedings Against Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka and Others Before the Court at Frankfurt. Translated by Steinberg, Jean. foreword by OCLC 1448174.
References
- ISBN 0-563-52296-8.
- ISBN 978-0-8101-1802-7.
- ^ "Perry Broad". Department of Social and Economic History, Johannes Kepler University Linz. Archived from the original on 26 September 2011. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ^ "Interview with Pery Broad". Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 28 February 2021.