Given name: Alfred Family name: Nossig

  • YES
  • Male
  • Alfred
  • Nossig
  • beginning of April 1943
  • Warszawa
  • Jew from Germany, said to be the diplomatic representative of Austria in World War I. Professor, writer, Zionist. He often came to Brandt to the Befehlstelle during the First Action. Warm witnessed Brandt greeting him cordially and talking to him for a long time. Nossig had so-called 'Brandt pass', which enabled him to move around the whole ghetto. Two weeks before the uprising, he was killed in his flat by the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB) members. He had document which granted him personal inviolability among Germans and his letter to the authorities, where he writes about Jews' preparations to resistance, about bunkers, he gave their addresses.

  • collaboration
  • fragments in 'Words to Outlive Us'

  • Warm, Ber; fragments of testimonies in: Michal Grynberg, Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, transl. Philip Boehm, Picador, New York, 2003.

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