Personal Stories

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…

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…

Here you can download the article: The German original version was first published in October 2016 on Learning from History (Lernen aus der Geschichte). Dealing with the experience of Nazi perpetration…

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…