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.

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