He Carried a Refrigerator and Became a Trusty
For two months Jindřich Feinberg became a trusty in the Plaszow concentration camp near Kraków. He answered the call of the guards who were looking for four strong men who could transport a refrigerator for the camp commander Amon Leopold Goethe and volunteered. “I put the fridge on my back and carried it to his villa. The commander came on his white horse with a big dog next to him and he asked me: ‘You carried it yourself?’ And I answered: ‘Yes.’ He offered me a cigarette and left,” recalls Feinberg. After that Jindřich Feinberg was allotted an office: “Two SS women from the Netherlands visited me there; they knew that I liked American hits, so we sang them together. I accompanied the women prisoners to their shifts and I always treated them well. One of the prisoners for example gave birth during my time; and I let one of the women who had bad heart stay in my wooden hut on the bench and I gave her cold compresses on forehead every half an hour. After the war, they tried me for being a trusty in Plaszow, but the women testified for me.”
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Jindřich Feinberg
Jindřich Feinberg was born on 28.8.1923 in Brno. He comes from a Jewish family. His father was Josef Feinberg, originally from Poland, who worked as a salesman. Mother Elsa neé Karpelisová was a teacher. Feinberg also had an older sister Gertrude, who later on died in the ghetto in Minsk. Feinberg studied at a German primary school, from which he left at the age of 15 because of anti-Semitism and began to work. His father was interned at Spilberg castle, and was followed by Jindřich shortly after. In September, 1941, the whole family was transported to the East to Minsk. Only Jindřich survived the ghetto as he was sent to work camp in the Polish city of Budin in November, 1943. He travelled then from Budin through Majdanek to Plaszow, where he worked also as a guard for two months. In the same year, he was sent to Flossenbürg and in May, 1945 he was liberated by Americans in the nearby city of Pocking. After the war in 1948, he was tried for collaboration with the Nazi regime, (found guilty, but not sentenced). In 1962, he was sentenced to 10 months unconditionally firstly for "subversion" which was then changed to "defamation of the Republic." Jindřich Feinberg lives in Brno with his wife Zina.
