1912	1925	1952

 

He was born as Paul Erich LEWINSOHN on 17 Jan 1892 in Dresden, the child of the Jewish Tobacco worker Salomon LEWINSOHN and his non-Jewish wife Auguste Pauline GANTZE. Of their 6 children, two died in infancy and 4 survived through the events of two world wars.

From early childhood the children were exposed to the Socialist views of their mother and grew up becoming activists in the extreme left of German politics. For this several members of the family were imprisoned. At the end of World War 2 Erich became Mayor of Hainsberg, Saxony.

1917	Arrested for anti-war propaganda, 8 years in prison, released by amnesty in 1918
25.31933 - 23.5.1934	Dresden prison arrested for "political reasons": preparations for high treason and explosives crime
23.5.1924 - 11.8.1936	Waldheim prison
11.8.1936 - 18.5.1945	Sachsenburg, Dachau, Buchenwald concentration camps