Aba Lewit: Surviving in hiding in a concentration camp
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Aba Lewit was born in Dzialoszyse (Poland) in 1923 and grew up in this "shtetl" where his father traded grain. After the conquest of Poland by the German Wehrmacht in 1940, Aba Lewit was first sent to the Kostrze camp near Krakow and then to the Plaszow concentration camp near Krakow. He was shot by an SS guard and critically injured. Without any medical care, his father hid him in the concentration camp. Miraculously, his injuries healed and he survived. In Plaszow, Lewit was also exposed to the cruelty of the notorious camp commander Amon Göth, who was notorious for his arbitrary sadism. Lewit reports that it was said of him that "he enjoyed breakfast after he had killed eight or nine Jews." In fact, Amon Göth murdered hundreds of prisoners himself. In 1943, Lewit was deported from Plaszow to Mauthausen. Because of his technical skills, he was employed in the arms industry in the Gusen concentration camp, one of 49 subcamps of the Mauthausen concentration camp. Although he had to fear for his life every day as a Jewish prisoner, Aba Lewit managed to carry out an act of sabotage that brought aircraft production at the Messerschmidt factory to a standstill for weeks. In Gusen, he also experienced the liberation by American troops and witnessed many prisoners die because their malnourished, emaciated bodies could no longer cope with normal food intake. Editor's note: A "ghetto" refers to a segregated city district - in the Middle Ages and early modern times, usually the only place where Jews were allowed to settle in certain cities. The term itself goes back to the Venetian district of "Geto Nuovo", which was assigned to Jews as a residential area in the sixteenth century. In the wake of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, Jews were gradually granted the same rights as Christians, which meant the end of the ghettos in Europe. The last ghetto in the world until the Nazi regime was in Rome, which was still under papal rule, and was only abolished after Rome was annexed by the Kingdom of Italy in 1870. The first step in the murder of Jews by the National Socialists in Europe was their separation from the rest of the population - their "ghettoization". "Shtetl" is the Yiddish term for a settlement in Eastern Europe inhabited predominantly by Jews. Yiddish was the colloquial language of the majority of Eastern European Jews, which evolved from Middle High German. Program: The last contemporary witnesses part 3. Interviews with survivors of the Holocaust Interviewer: Sabrina Peer Do you want to support us? http://donate.anjobi.at/
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