For a time, postcards were the only legal way available to contact the outside of the Litzmannstadt ghetto. The Germans forcibly held more than 160,000 Jewish people there between 1940 and 1945. Writing postcards was of great importance to those imprisoned […]
Beiträge der Category: Letters and Postcards
Throughout history, revolts, uprisings and especially revolutions often went hand in hand with violent riots against minorities. The anti-Jewish riots of the revolutionary year 1848 in the German-speaking south-west are vivid examples of this reoccurring phenomenon. In the reports of influential […]
Already in the 1950s and 1960s – before the nationwide organized civil rights movement gained momentum – German Sinti and Roma tried to obtain individual recognition of their Nazi persecution as well as financial aid from the compensation authorities of […]
The German constitution has guaranteed politically persecuted people the right to asylum since 1949. With the signing of the Geneva Refugee Convention in 1951, West Germany also promised protection to all those whose life or freedom is threatened because of […]
The 28-year-old Aniela C. was well aware of the German censorship when she wrote a letter to her good friend Jan B. on January 9, 1942. Nevertheless, she gave free rein to her anger.1 She lived in her ancestral village of […]
In the course of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, more than five million Soviet soldiers fell into captivity, more than half of whom would not survive the war.1 In addition to the tens of thousands shot immediately after […]
While some social work schools were either forcibly closed or dissolved as a result of the transfer of power to the National Socialists in 1933, the welfare school, which had emerged from the women’s movement and was now recognized by the […]