Felix Weinberg (M / Czechia, 1928-2012), Holocaust survivor
Felix Weinberg (M / Czechia, 1928-2012), Holocaust survivor.
- KEYWORDS : <Theresienstadt> <Auschwitz> <Death March> <Buchenwald> <Block 66> <Liberation of Buchenwald>
- MEMOIRS : Boy 30529: A Memoir (2013)
Biography
NOTES : Felix Weinberg (1928-2012) was born in Czechia to a Jewish family. Deported to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, he was eventually reunited to his father in England. Became a renowned physicist, Professor of Combustion Physics and Distinguished Research Fellow at Imperial College London.
Book : Boy 30529: A Memoir
- 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.