Personal Stories

One of the goals of the Stichting Oktober 44 is staying in touch with the relatives of the victims of the Putten raid that took place on the 1st and…

Maria Grazia Gori Casati grew up without getting to know her father Italico. He died in a satellite camp of Neuengamme concentration camp in April 1945. In 2017, 73 years…

Jörg Watzinger has already been dealing with the history of his family during National Socialism for a long time. His father Dr. Karl Otto Watzinger survived the Dachau concentration camp.…

The son of a former prisoner of the Dachau concentration camp reports My father, Dr. Karl Otto Watzinger, was born in 1913. He grew up with two siblings in an…

His parents, Herta and Carlheinz, already joined resistance groups against National Socialism as teenagers. Because of their political activities, they were first imprisoned already at a young age. In his…

Mykola Titow has been researching for many years on the history of his two uncles, who were deported to Germany as forced laborers during the Second World War and died…

Since issue no. 24/2015, reports on the transmission of remembrance in the families of four members of the Freundeskreis KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme e. V. have been published in freundeskreis aktuell, the…

Bruno Neurath-Wilson tells about his father Willi Neurath, who survived various concentration camps as a political prisoner, and his mother Eva, who supported her husband in his resistance activities, about…

A family just like any other Remember barley soup? Or did you only have oranges at Christmas? We had our first phone when I was about 10 years old. There…

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…