Brigadier Arthur (Jean-Pierre Oudry) Huschak

Personalia

Born:

February 23, 1903, Kolomea

Died:

July 25, 1971, Klagenfurt

Profession:

Soldier and tax official

KZ Number:

69287

Memberships

Austrian People's Party, ÖVP Comradeship of the politically persecuted and confessors for Austria

Curriculum Vitae

Shortly after the Allied troops landed in Normandy, the Gestapo unmasked 'Jean-Pierre Oudry' and arrested him on June 21, 1944. Knowing his true identity, Arthur Huschak was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp on August 6, 1944. He was deployed in the Witten subcamp 'Anner Gußstahlwerke'. As the US Army approached, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners were sent on foot to Lipperode in North Rhine-Westphalia. There they were liberated by the 9th US Army on April 1, 1945.

Arthur Huschak returned to Toulouse in liberated France and was reinstated as a captain. He helped Austrian prisoners of war (with the exception of members of the SA, SS, police formations and illegal National Socialists from the period 1934 to 1938) to get out of captivity as quickly as possible and return home. He is one of those who helped to enable around 60,000 Austrians to return home.

Inmate personnel card of Arthur Huschak from Buchenwald concentration camp
Image: Arolsen Archives

As an Austrian soldier in the French army, Arthur Huschak experienced the liberation of Austria and the re-establishment of the Republic in April and May 1945. He was only demobilized in February 1947 and returned home to his wife in Klagenfurt. After his rehabilitation, he works as a tax official at the Carinthian State Finance Directorate and joins the newly founded Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich. With the formation of the Austrian Armed Forces in 1956, Artur Huschak returned to the military and subsequently worked as head of the Lower Austria Supplementary Command, where he rose to the rank of brigadier general.

As a brigadier of the Austrian Armed Forces, Arthur Huschak retires, returns to Carinthia, becomes a member of the regional board of the ÖVP-Kameradschaft der politisch Verfolgten und Bekenner für Österreich - Landesorganisation Kärnten and dies in Klagenfurt at the age of 68. He is laid to rest at the St. Ruprecht cemetery in Klagenfurt

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