ObjektnummerM1992/007:006
BeskrivningA.E.F. D.P (Allied Expeditionary Force, Displaced Persons) registration record, issued to Dr Simon Weisshaut on 8th May 1945.
Dr. Simon Weisshaut (later changed to Peter Vit) was born in Tarnopol, Poland on 7 April 1911. His father's name was Herman Weiss. His mother's Eliska Rosenfeldora. He moved to Prague before the war, where he studied, was married, and practised medicine. His last-known address was Prague, before being deported to Theresienstadt and various concentration camps. In Buchenwald he became prisoner number 95745. According to his A.E.F. record [M1992/007:006], he did not identify as being Jewish. Nevertheless, Nazi records from the International Tracing Service [ITS] archive classify him as Jew, doctor and a political prisoner- assigned a red winkel (triangle).
This Nazi-imposed codification system - his red winkel with the capital T stamped in black - identified him as a Czech national. Other records in the archive classify him as "Ungar" (Hungarian). There are disparate versions of Dr. Simon Weisshaut's transportation and incarceration records. According to Terezínská Pamétní Kniha's transport lists in the period 1941-1945 to other ghettos and camps, he was deported from Prague to Terezin on 22 December 1942 on Transport I CK 329. Then on Transport II from Auschwitz to Buchenwald on 28 September 1944.
Dr. Weisshaut's Czechoslovakian Transportation card [ITS archive] shows that on Transport II Ef 2059 on the 28 September 1944 he was transported from Terezin to Auschwitz.
Based on Dr. Weisshaut's ID Ausweis/Buchenwald [M1992/007:004] he was incarcerated in concentration camps from 15 December 1942 to 11 April 1945. As he was deported to Auschwitz on 28 September 1944 and transferred to Buchenwald on the 19 November 1944 [ITS] he was "a 'depot prisoner', registered, but not tattooed" [K. Kwiet, private communication, 2020], as he was incarcerated there for only six weeks, before his transfer to Buchenwald.
We learn from Gertrude Skalsky's unpublished notes (17.6.2003), that whilst Dr. Weisshaut was interned in Terezin he was given permission to practise as a pharmacist, dispensing drugs, but was not permitted to attend to patients. After the liberation of Buchenwald on 11 April 1945, he volunteered to remain in the camp, which he did for three months, to help combat typhus. See his pass from army hospital 15, dated 25 April 1945 [M1992/007:007] and his doctor's armband stamped "Buchenwald 22 Mai 1945" [M1992/007:002]. He was decorated for his services. He was repatriated to Prague. His wife did not survive. He remarried a woman by the name of Katherina and in 1965 moved to West Germany where he changed his name to Dr. Peter Vit. He set up his own practice, residing in Swebheim, West Germany. He was still working with his son, on a part-time basis, in 2003, aged 92.
Dr. Simon Weisshaut (later changed to Peter Vit) was born in Tarnopol, Poland on 7 April 1911. His father's name was Herman Weiss. His mother's Eliska Rosenfeldora. He moved to Prague before the war, where he studied, was married, and practised medicine. His last-known address was Prague, before being deported to Theresienstadt and various concentration camps. In Buchenwald he became prisoner number 95745. According to his A.E.F. record [M1992/007:006], he did not identify as being Jewish. Nevertheless, Nazi records from the International Tracing Service [ITS] archive classify him as Jew, doctor and a political prisoner- assigned a red winkel (triangle).
This Nazi-imposed codification system - his red winkel with the capital T stamped in black - identified him as a Czech national. Other records in the archive classify him as "Ungar" (Hungarian). There are disparate versions of Dr. Simon Weisshaut's transportation and incarceration records. According to Terezínská Pamétní Kniha's transport lists in the period 1941-1945 to other ghettos and camps, he was deported from Prague to Terezin on 22 December 1942 on Transport I CK 329. Then on Transport II from Auschwitz to Buchenwald on 28 September 1944.
Dr. Weisshaut's Czechoslovakian Transportation card [ITS archive] shows that on Transport II Ef 2059 on the 28 September 1944 he was transported from Terezin to Auschwitz.
Based on Dr. Weisshaut's ID Ausweis/Buchenwald [M1992/007:004] he was incarcerated in concentration camps from 15 December 1942 to 11 April 1945. As he was deported to Auschwitz on 28 September 1944 and transferred to Buchenwald on the 19 November 1944 [ITS] he was "a 'depot prisoner', registered, but not tattooed" [K. Kwiet, private communication, 2020], as he was incarcerated there for only six weeks, before his transfer to Buchenwald.
We learn from Gertrude Skalsky's unpublished notes (17.6.2003), that whilst Dr. Weisshaut was interned in Terezin he was given permission to practise as a pharmacist, dispensing drugs, but was not permitted to attend to patients. After the liberation of Buchenwald on 11 April 1945, he volunteered to remain in the camp, which he did for three months, to help combat typhus. See his pass from army hospital 15, dated 25 April 1945 [M1992/007:007] and his doctor's armband stamped "Buchenwald 22 Mai 1945" [M1992/007:002]. He was decorated for his services. He was repatriated to Prague. His wife did not survive. He remarried a woman by the name of Katherina and in 1965 moved to West Germany where he changed his name to Dr. Peter Vit. He set up his own practice, residing in Swebheim, West Germany. He was still working with his son, on a part-time basis, in 2003, aged 92.
Datum 1945-05-08
Ämneliberation, displaced persons, Holocaust, concentration camps, doctors (medical), Displaced Persons camps, Allied Expeditionary Force
Objektnamnrepatriation documents
Dimensioner
- whole width: 223.00 mm
height: 126.00 mm
KreditSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr Simon Weisshaut