- Document ID: 5896746
- Document Collection: 1-1-5-3-Individuelle H�ftlingsunterlagen-KL Buchenwald
- Link to Online Archive: https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/de/document/5896746
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Josef/Joseph FRIEDRICH, born in Hundorf (today Hudkov, Czechia, geonames 3074740) on 11.03.1891.
He returned
Josef/Joseph was the son of a merchant couple Joseph FRIEDRICH and Marie, née HÉANNIG, and had the same profession as his parents.
He married Angela FISCHER in 1922 in Vienna (Austria). The couple lived in Teplitz, a town in the Usti nad Labem region.
He joined the International Brigades, fought in the 129th Brigade divisional battalion of the 45th division made up of Czechoslovaks, Bulgarians, Yugoslavs and Albanians.
After the withdrawal of the International Brigades in November 1938, the foreign fighters were interned in Saint-Cyprien (Pyrénées-Orientales) or Argelès-sur-Mer (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) then at the Gurs camp at the beginning of 1939 in the Basses-Pyrénées (Pyrénées -Atlantics). Several fighters interned in Gurs participated in the resistance in France or in their country.
In the spring of 1939, more than six thousand members of the International Brigades, including Joseph Friedrich, were interned at the Gurs camp. He was in islet H, barrack no. 1 of the camp.
(taken and translated from FRIEDRICH Joseph - Maitron)