Beiträge der Verfolgungsgrund: Political Position

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 […]

The woman in the pho­to wears a stri­ped pri­soner uni­form mark­ed with the num­ber 50446, gazing serious­ly into the came­ra. The cap­ti­on at the bot­tom of the pho­to reve­als her name: Neus Cata­là. Cata­là, a Cata­lan nur­se and com­mu­nist, fled to France […]

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 […]