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 Munich Haidhausen in 1963. Her father, Werner Grube, the son of a Jewish woman and a communist, was sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1945 … Read more
My text is about the issue of the consequences of National Socialist court verdicts and the prison sentences for survivors and their families, an almost forgotten group of victims of Nazi persecution, by the example of Wolfenbüttel Prison. Wolfenbüttel Prison was the main penal facility in the former State of Braunschweig (Brunswick), in northern Germany, … Read more
It took a few days to process all the impressions of our trip to Neuengamme. So many impressions and special moments. – At first I thought the term ‘connectedness’ referred to meeting at the poster boards and being active together there. But the meaning goes much deeper when you consider that by creating a poster, … Read more
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 Cologne, the city of my grandmother’s youth, has grown. In the intervening years, a few more snippets about the fate of my grandmother and her … Read more
Among the German Sinti and Roma there is hardly a family that was not affected by the persecution by the National Socialists. At least three quarters fell victim to the genocide, so that only a few thousand survived, the majority of whom returned to their old homes.[1] Marlo Thormann, born in 1960, and Kelly Laubinger, … Read more
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 the nearly 7,000 people who lost their lives on May 3, 1945, when the prisoner ships sank. As a member of the French resistance movement, … Read more
As an oral history and memory researcher based in Poland, for years I have been recording and analysing the testimonies of World War II survivors. The memory and experience of the second generation, those growing up in the shadow of the traumatic past, became the subject of my PhD thesis in sociology. The Polish context … Read more
The Reflections Blog offers all those whose family history was affected by the crimes of the Nazis a platform to share their stories and thus contribute to a sustainable future of remembrance. The personal stories of the descendants form the core of this blog – in them the effects of the Nazi persecution on the … Read more
On 02 and 03 May 2022, relatives and other interested people gathered to commemorate the victims of the ship catastrophe in the Bay of Lübeck on 03 May 1945. You can now find the documentation of the commemoration on the YouTube channel of the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme. The Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme (AIN), in … Read more
On May 2, 2023, relatives of former Neuengamme Concentration Camp inmates will once again have the opportunity to jointly print, placard and publicly present their posters designed for the Space to Remember. Each year, the Space to Remember at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial “Plattenhaus” is added to with new printing plates of posters with … Read more
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