Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski

Alexander Weissberg - Cybulski ( born October 8, 1901 in Kraków, Austria - Hungary, now Poland, † April 4, 1964 in Paris) was a Polish- Austrian physicist, author and businessman of Jewish origin. His statement in the process David Rousset Les Lettres françaises and against his book In the interrogation contributed significantly to making known the character of the Stalinist terror in Western Europe.

Life

Alexander Weissberg was the son of Orthodox Jewish merchant. In 1902 the family moved to Vienna. Alexander Weissberg studied technical physics, joined the Social Democracy, and after 15 July 1927 the Communists. After obtaining the diploma of engineer at the Technical University of Vienna ( 1929), he worked as an engineer in the short term in Argentina and as an assistant to Wilhelm Westphal at the Technical University Berlin. White Mountain in 1933 to the U.F.T.I. ( Ukrainian Physico- Technical Institute ) in Kharkov appointed. In the spring of 1936 White Mountain was arrested and got into the Great Terror. Despite his Austrian citizenship in 1938 and made ​​interventions such as well-known friends of the couple Joliot- Curie and Albert Einstein's White Mountain was first released in 1940 by the NKVD, but handed over to the Nazi authorities under the German -Soviet pact of mutual assistance.

During the war was Weissenberg essentially with the papers of staying in the U.S. Count Cybulski, which were provided to him by his wife, his partner available. After the war, White Mountain has worked as a businessman in Paris.

In the process of journalist David Rousset against the communist magazine Les Lettres françaises, which denied the existence of the Gulag and Rousset had accused of lying, attracted 1950 White Mountain statement and the fact of the interventions of the famous physicist in his favor high attention. Weissberg wrote in the wake of his book In the interrogation ( German edition 1993, Europa Verlag, Vienna), which is characterized by high analytical precision in the description of the Stalinist terror. Just as in the process Kravchenko verge of becoming the denied by the PCF Soviet mass terror subject of a Western European trial.

Writings

  • Witches' Sabbath. Russia in the crucible of cleansing. Publisher of Frankfurter books, Frankfurt am Main, 1951. Edition under the title In the interrogation. Europa Verlag, Vienna 1993.
  • The story of Joel Brand. Or, Tel Aviv 1968.
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