Descendants of Nazi victims

My beautiful mother, Lily Ruttner, was born on 29 November 1925 to Berta and Avraham Ruttner. She had three older brothers, Julius, Josef and Markus, and one younger sister, Elza. The family…

I have been researching my family history for years and in this context I have spent many hours in various archives and immersed myself in all kinds of documents and…

I could write a lot. I could recount the grey stories of the concentration camps and the post-war period, which are still incredibly distressing and painful today. I could mention…

My name is Margit Grome, and I am the daughter of Erik Holger Grome. He was a member of the resistance movement in Denmark and a prisoner in the Neuengamme…

Thorsten Fehlberg met with Edith Grube for a conversation about her family history to find out what influence it has had on her political commitment. Edith Grube was born in…

Five years on since I was invited to participate in the NS Beratung conference on historico-political education and the role of descendants of Holocaust refugees and survivors, my connection with…

May 3, 2023 marks the 78th anniversary of the bombing of the prisoner ships in the Bay of Lübeck. For this occasion, we interviewed Bernard Jeune. His father was among…

In 2016 Maryse Kluck wrote a letter to her great-grandfather Anton van der Lugt who she never met because he had died in a German concentration camp.

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…