| LC control no. | nr2005003217 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Heller, Otto, 1897-1945 |
| Birth date | 1897-12-14 |
| Death date | 1945-03-24 |
| Found in | Auf zum Baikal!, 1933: t.p. (Otto Heller) Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933: Bd. 1 (Heller, Otto; writer, party functionary; b. 14 Dec. 1897 in Brünn (Brno), Czech Republic; d. 24 Mar. 1945 in Ebensee concentration camp) OCLC, Sept. 11, 2009 (hdg.: Heller, Otto, 1897-1945; Heller, Otto, 1897- ; Heller, Otto, b. 1897; Heller, Otto; usage: Otto Heller) Radical assimilation in the face of the Holocaust, 2024: CIP t.p. (Otto Heller (1897-1945)) galley (born in Vienna on December 14, 1897, some lexicons mistakenly cite his birthplace as Brünn; at fifteen he joined the youth movement Freier Wandervogel, oppositionelle, freideutsche Organization = Free Wandering Bird, Oppositional Free-German Organization; served in Imperial Army; in 1917 joined Socialist Workers' Youth of Austria; entered the University of Vienna in 1918; moved to Czechoslovakia in 1920 where he completed his university studies; joined the Communist Youth International; expelled from Czechoslovakia, moved to Berlin in 1921; worked on the editorial board of the newspaper Die Welt am Abend until 1929 when he went to Siberia to research a book; back in Berlin, he established a branch of Geserd (Gesellschaft zur Förderung des jüdischen Siedlungswerkes in der UdSSR, Association for Supporting the Jewish Settlements in the Soviet Union); 1933 fled to Zurich, Switzerland; in 1934 moved to Moscow to work for the Deutsche Zentral Zeitung (DZZ, Central German Newspaper); fled to Paris in 1936; In October 1942, he was among some fifty Austrian communists who formed, by an order from Moscow, the “Austrian Freedom Front” (Österreichische Freiheitsfront); worked in the Resistance; arrested by the Gestapo in Lille, December 23, 1943; sent to Auschwitz in 1944; joined Auschwitz Fighting Group (Kampfengruppe Auschwitz, KGA)) |
| Associated language | ger |
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