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The Other Side of Persecution.
Testimonies of the 19th and 20th Centuries Revisited

An online platform for testimonies that report on persecution. At regular intervals, guest authors discuss individual testimonies, their backgrounds and potential insights.

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Work of Art

Smoking at the Barber’s A Visual Testimony from the Buchenwald Sub-Camp, Holzen 1945

On January 18th, 1945, the French inmate Camille Delétang drew a portrait of the Polish resistance fighter and composer Kazimierz Tymiński in the Buchenwald subcamp “Hecht” near Holzen.1 Both had previously been imprisoned in the Buchenwald main camp, where Tymiński compiled […]

Photography and Film

“A woman who lives alone.” Hatidža Mehmedović's Photo and the Representation of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2009

She remains in the background in the photo. She is not looking at the camera. Her gaze is directed upwards, into the distance. She holds three large photographs, framed school portraits of her sons Almir and Azmir and a picture of […]

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Work of Art

Smoking at the Barber’s A Visual Testimony from the Buchenwald Sub-Camp, Holzen 1945

Photography and Film

“A woman who lives alone.” Hatidža Mehmedović's Photo and the Representation of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2009

Letters and Postcards

“Remember our mutual promise when we parted.” Postcards as (Last) Signs of Life from the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, Occupied Poland 1941/42

Letters and Postcards

“My community, however, deserves special protection.” Letter from Rabbi Moïse Nordmann to the President of the Central Consistory in Paris, Alsace 1848

Photography and Film

Photography as Testimony Neus Català in Prisoner Uniform, France 1945

“What was done to us because of our race is and remains injustice […]” The Struggle for the Recognition of the Nazi Persecution of German Sinti and Roma Based on the Compensation File of O. A., West Germany 1949-1988

Note

„I was not in the least afraid, not for a single minute.“ Alice Salomon's Memorandum of an Interrogation by the Gestapo, London 1937

Letters and Postcards

“Are we still a part of humanity?” Protest Letters as Sources for the Perspective of Asylum Seekers on the German Asylum System, Germany 2000

Letters and Postcards

“The Lord has confused any reason in their foolish minds.” The Intercepted Letter from Aniela C., Poland 1942

Photography and Film

Et in Arcadia Ego. The Portrait of Dora Schaul, France ca. 1941-1942

Interview

„We escaped on our own.” A Video Interview with Marian Dumitru on the Pogrom in Rostock-Lichtenhagen, Romania 2022

Letters and Postcards

“I decided to escape.” Agency in a Letter from a Former Soviet Prisoner of War, Ukraine 2005

Other

“Back then, I saved my son by hiding him under pillows…” Individual Scope of Action under German Occupation, Yugoslavia 1945

Letters and Postcards

“This is where I come to your kindness, which I still clearly remember.” Experiences of Expulsion in a Letter from Exile, Italy 1958