Martine Letterie

Martine Letterie has been President of the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme since 2019. Her grandfather Martinus Letterie was murdered in Neuengamme concentration camp in 1942. She is a literary scholar and has been writing books for children and young people for over 25 years, in which she regularly addresses the Nazi era.

As a descendant, I feel this is as responsibility – Martine Letterie, president of the AIN

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Martine Letterie is currently the President of the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme. The AIN is an international association of the national organizations of survivors of the Neuengamme concentration camp as well as the families and friends of former prisoners of the Neuengamme concentration camp. It consists of different member organizations, spread out over various European countries. We … Read more

Book review “Expansion at all costs”

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In 2017, the Hannoverscher Bahnhof memorial was opened in Hamburg. It commemorates the deportations of Jews and Sinti and Roma that took place from this train station between 1940 and 1945. An accompanying documentation centre was to be opened in 2020. So far, this has not happened. The investment company that owns the building has … Read more

Book Review “1945 – Destination Sweden”

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Jan van Ommen has been a member of the Stichting Vriendenkring Neuengamme, the Dutch Group of Friends of the concentration camp memorial, for many years. His mother Renny van Ommen was one of the approximately 650 women who were transported to Dachau when the Vught camp was evacuated. About two hundred of them were quickly … Read more

Excerpt: We must stick together

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In 1939 the German-Jewish Birnbaum family ended up at Camp Westerbork in the East of the Netherlands, near the German border. Father and Mother Birnbaum cared for German-Jewish children who arrived at this then refugee camp without their parents. In this way an orphanage barrack was created, where the family tried to make life bearable … Read more

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