Personal Stories

From the early age of 10 Kristof van Mierop got fascinated by WWII and the concentration camps because of his grandfather’s story. Not until 2015, when he was 39, he…

On the third of May 1945 my father Willi Neurath survived the sinking of the Cap Arcona off Neustadt/Holstein. On 6 June 1948 he was elected – together with Rudi…

In her fourth article about her visit to Germany in 2018 Roslyn Eldar describes her visit to Muna Lübberstedt, the former satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, where her…

Jörg Watzinger has been following up the history of his family during the Nazi era for many years. Karl Otto Watzinger, his father, is at the centre of his research.…

Impressions from the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial Roslyn Eldar’s mother Lili Ruttner survived the Muna Lübberstedt satellite camp of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp. After the war Lili built a new…

For decades Lori Ellis had only a vague idea of what her mother Sophie had experienced in three Nazi concentration camps. When Sophie’s grandchildren became old enough to learn about…

In her first article “My family made bombs for Nazi Germany as slave laborers during WWII” Roslyn Eldar, the daughter of a former Neuengamme concentration camp prisoner, shared her experiences…

Linda Ganzini is the author of the upcoming novel “Lilia” based on the story of her mother Lilia Meneguzzi whose coming-of-age in an Italian village was overshadowed by the fear…

Roslyn Eldar is the daughter of Lili Ruttner who was originally from Tacova (Czechoslovakia). Lili and six other family members survived Lübberstedt-Bilohe, a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp,…

In “Ode au grand absent qui ne m’a jamais quitté“, published in 2016 by L’Harmattan,  Jean-Michel Gaussot, son of a member of the French Résistance who died in a Nazi…