Personal Stories

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…

Childhood during World War II I was born 01.05.1940 in Warsaw. In my early childhood during World War II I experienced all kinds of terror under the occupation of Nazi-Germany. …

Sometimes there are no easy answers The Nationaal Monument Kamp Vught presents interested institutions in the Netherlands and abroad with the chance of borrowing the exhibition „Dancing with the Enemy“ about the…

The image I have of my Grand-father has always been the same, that of a hero, therefore a role model Robin Evans is the grandson of Pascal Vallicioni who was…

Interview with Jacqueline B. The „Convoi 77“ was the last convoy of deportees taken from Drancy to Auschwitz. The descendants of the deportees of „Convoi 77“ are working on finding the last…

Interview with Yvonne Cossu-Alba and Ulrich Gantz on the dialogue between descendants of victims and the descendants of perpetrators From 15-20 August 2016, the International Nuremberg Principles Academy held the Summer Academy…

Interview with Alexandra Senfft On May 2nd, 2016, Alexandra Senfft’s new book „Der lange Schatten der Täter. Nachkommen stellen sich ihrer NS-Familiengeschichte“ (“The Perpetrators’ Long Shadow. Descendants Face their Nazi Family History”) was published.…

Interview with Damien Bertrand, great-grandson of Edmond Forboteaux who died on May 3rd, 1945. 1 How did you learn about what happened to your grand-father? In my family, people hardly spoke…

They are not perpertrators and we are not heros! Jacqueline Gicquel, the daughter of Pierre Gicquel who died in the Watenstedt satelite camp on February 22, 1945, talks about the effects of…

Forgive but not forget! Christine Rault, the grand-daughter of Joseph Rault who died in the Sandbostel reception camp on May 19, 1945, gives insights into her family history and describes her positive…