Siegfried Lederer escaped from Auschwitz on 5 April 1944. He was accompanied by SS-Rottenführer Viktor Pestek, who opposed the Holocaust. After the war he remained in Czechoslovakia. There is no evidence that he was involved in the Auschwitz resistance movement.
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Siegfried Lederer escaped from Auschwitz on 5 April 1944. He was accompanied by SS-Rottenführer Viktor Pestek, who opposed the Holocaust. Lederer tried unsuccessfully to warn the Jews at Theresienstadt Ghetto about the mass murders at Auschwitz. He and Pestsek returned to Auschwitz in an attempt to rescue Renée Neumann and her mother. Pestk was arrested under disputed circumstances and later executed. After the war he remained in Czechoslovakia. The story of the escape was retold by Lederer and writers including historian Erich Kulka. There is no evidence that he was involved in the Auschwitz resistance movement. He died of his injuries in Separate Separated Village, where he was discovered by partisans who spared his life despite the SS killings in the village. He had apparently reawakened his faith and brought him into conflict with the German genocidal policies of the Nazi regime. After his death, he lost the use of his hand-line and was posted to a German-controlled area of the camp. Founded the Auschwitz concentration camp, he was unfit for service and had to use the handline of his camp. Upon his return to a handline, he had lost theUse of his front-line, and was forced to use his handline. He later died in a Soviet partisan attack on his unit, and he was spared by the Soviet partisans who opened fire on his arm with his leg.
He is buried in Písařova Vesce, in the Sudetenland, the German-speaking part of Czechoslov Slovakia. He also had a son, Siegfried, who was born in 1904 and died in 2002. He lived in the Czech Republic until his death in 2012. He has a daughter, Siegfrid, who died in 2012 and is survived by her mother and two brothers. He wrote a book about his experiences in the Holocaust, “Auschwitz: A Memoirs of a Jew and a Jew-in-the-War”. He also wrote a biography of his father, Viktor Lederer, which is published by the Czech University of Science and Technology. The book is available in English, German, Slovak, Czech, and Slovak. It is also available in German, English, Polish, and Hungarian. It was published in English by the University of Czechoslovakia and the Czechoslovak Institute of History and Culture, and is available on Kindle and the Internet. It also has a Spanish version. It has been translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Spanish. It can be ordered by clicking here. It includes a short extract from the book, and a transcript of the interview with Viktor Lederer about his escape from Auschwitz, as well as other details of his life in the concentration camp. For more information on the story, visit: http://www.siegfriedlederer.com/.
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