Interview with Erich Frost

Identifier
irn600267
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • RG-91.2191
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Erich Frost (Composer)
  • Johannes Wrobel (Interviewer)

Biographical History

Erich Frost (1900–1987), a musician and devout Jehovah’s Witness, was active in the religious resistance to Hitler’s authority. Caught smuggling pamphlets from Switzerland to Germany, he was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin where he composed this song in 1942. Later deported to a labor camp at Alderney, Channel Islands, Frost survived the war and returned to Germany to serve the Watchtower Society.

Scope and Content

Johannes Wrobel interviews Erich Frost who composed the song "Fest Steht" [Stand Fast / Forward, You Witnesses] while a prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as a Jehovah's Witness. Johannes Wrobel, a Jehovah's Witness archivist in Germany, recorded this telephone interview with Frost on January 26, 1986.

Note(s)

  • Copy of USHMM, October 2001

Genre

  • Oral histories.
  • Recorded Sound
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