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 Verfolgungsgrund: Antisemitism
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 […]
On May 26, 1937, Alice Salomon (1872−1948), a social work pioneer, women’s rights activist and academic from a Jewish family, was interrogated by the Gestapo and ordered to leave the German Reich within three weeks. Salomon wrote a memorandum of this interrogation four […]
A young woman can be seen on a black and white photograph. She is wearing a buttoned-up plaid blouse with large shiny buttons tucked into a dark skirt. Her brown, wavy hair is kept in an elegant, relatively short hairstyle that does not […]
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 […]