Stefan Jerzy Zweig

Stefan Jerzy Zweig (28 January 1941 – 6 February 2024) was a Polish-German author and cameraman.

[2] Willi Bleicher and Robert Siewert, prisoner functionaries, took care of Zweig's welfare.

With help from former Résistance member and French Buchenwald survivor, Pierre Sudreau, he received a stipend to continue his studies in Lyon at the Institute for Applied Polytechnology in summer 1963.

Subsequently, journalists from the East Berlin newspaper, BZ am Abend went looking for Zweig, finding him in Lyon, where he had just resumed his university studies.

[1] In 2005, the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald, Zweig published his own book, Tränen allein genügen nicht (Tears alone are not enough), telling his own story and defending his rescuers from defamation as "Stalinists".

In his 2003 novel, Anders (Different), Hans Joachim Schädlich wrote about distortions of facts in fiction, including Apitz' novel, implying that Zweig, as a four-year-old, also shared guilt for the murder of Willi Blum.

[2] Zweig's father wrote an article about his son's experience for the Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem.