Martinus Letterie, Henk Robeer, Gerrit Meerbeek… if the word was not so cliched – they could be called heroes. They did something that was not only very courageous, but quite literally unique in Europe: they encouraged their colleagues and the workforces of other factories to go on strike. But not to strike for more pay … Read more
In 1985, the last two letters from the imprisonment of Elisabeth Sztwiertnia, my great-aunt, from 1944, fell into my hands for the first time. She was the big sister of my grandmother Maria Zabrzynski. Before that it was always said that she had died in Berlin in a bombing raid.
On April 4, 2018, Wim Aloserij proudly presented “his” book to Sybrand Buma, the then parliamentary group leader of the Dutch party “Christen-Democratisch Appèl”. The venue was the Kamp Amersfoort memorial, where around 80 guests and family members had gathered. Buma humbly accepted the book, entitled “The Last Witness” (literal translation from Dutch, English title: … Read more
On 29 June 2022, at the invitation of the Second President of the National Council Doris Bures, the Mauthausen Committee Austria and the Austrian Lagergemeinschaft Mauthausen, the Hans Maršálek Prize was awarded for the third time at Palais Epstein. Outstanding achievements in the field of commemoration, remembrance and awareness raising were honoured. The prize is … Read more
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
In February 2020, the Dutch publisher Verbum released the book ‘Diamantkinderen‘ (English version: “The Rescue of Belsen’s Diamond Children“). It is about Jewish children in Bergen-Belsen. They were the children of the so-called Diamond Jews who were sent as family from Westerbork1 to Bergen-Belsen. The mothers of these children were the women transported from Bergen-Belsen … Read more
A catastrophe occurred in the Bay of Lübeck shortly before the end of the Second World War in Europe. On May 03, 1945, the British Royal Air Force bombed the cargo ship “Thielbek” and the passenger ship “Cap Arcona”, which were anchored in Lübeck Bay off Neustadt, assuming that there were German troops on the … Read more
Many relatives of former Neuengamme Concentration Camp prisoners from all over the world have designed individual posters for the Space to Remember. In front of the Plattenhaus in Neuengamme, more and more printing plates are ready to commemorate those who were persecuted with posters. In the last two years, the pandemic has largely prevented trips … Read more
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
I am very grateful for the presentation of the posters for the members of our families who suffered in Neuengamme concentration camp. Each path of persecution seems to have been different, only the suffering brings them all together. I could also always sense that in my father’s words: his great respect for what his fellow … Read more
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