Felix Weinberg (M / Czechia, 1928-2012), Holocaust survivor
Felix Weinberg (M / Czechia, 1928-2012), Holocaust survivor.
- KEYWORDS : <Czechia> <Theresienstadt> <Auschwitz> <Death March> <Buchenwald> <Block 66> <Liberation of Buchenwald> -- <Czechia> <Windermere Children> <England>
- MEMOIRS : Boy 30529: A Memoir (2013)
Biography
Felix Weinberg was born April 2, 1928 in Aussig, Czechia to Jewish parents, Victor and Nelly. Father went to England shortly before the war broke up; the rest of the family did not have the time and opportunity to follow him. On 5 Dec 1942, Felix was deported to Theresienstadt. From there, on 15 Dec 1943, he was sent to the Czech Family Camp Auschwitz. Having survived the liquidation of the camp in July 1944, he was sent to Buchenwald, where he was liberated.
He went back to Prague and in August 1945 joined the Windermere Children on their way to England, where he was reunited to his father.
Despite his formal education having been cut short at age twelve, he won a place at university and later become the first professor of Combustion Physics at Imperial College London. He was also a fellow of the Royal Society.
He was the author or editor of four books and more than 220 scientific papers. Internationally acknowledged as a leading thinker in his field, he was awarded a D.Sc. by the University of London (1961), both the Silver (1972) and the Bernard Lewis Gold (1980) Medals of the Combustion Institute, Fellowship of the Royal Society (1983), the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal (1988), the D.Sc. Honoris Causa by Technion, Haifa (1990), the Italgas Prize for Energy Sciences (Turin Academy, 1991), and the Smolenski Medal of the Polish Academy of Science (1999), as well as being elected to the American National Academy of Engineering as a Foreign Associate in 2001. The Hugh Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to Combustion Physics was conferred on him in 2005 (Institute of Physics).
He died in December 2012.
Book : Boy 30529: A Memoir (2013)
- Felix Weinberg, Boy 30529: A Memoir (London & New York: Verso, 2013).
"In 1939 twelve-year-old Felix Weinberg fell into the hands of the Nazis. Imprisoned for most of his teenage life, Felix survived five concentration camps, including Terezin, Auschwitz, and Birkenau, barely surviving the Death March from Blechhammer in 1945. After losing his mother and brother in the camps, he was liberated at Buchenwald and eventually reunited at seventeen with his father in Britain, where they built a new life together. Boy 30529 is an extraordinary memoir of the Holocaust, as well as a moving meditation on the nature of memory.."--Publisher description.
Sources
- USHMM Database (Felix Weinberg, 1928) -- YES
- 45aid.org (Felix Weinberg, 1928) -- YES