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 […]
Beiträge der Verfolgungsgrund: Racism
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 […]
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 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 […]
“I helped my family, we escaped on our own. Immediately after the attacks, our Roma people, relatives and members of our community, when they found out about the attacks, they came to help us, many with their own cars.“1 A […]
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 […]
“On October 20, 1942, Trajko Latifović, together with two agents [of the Serbian Special Police, author’s note] and a guard [of the local police station, author’s note] came to my house and took my husband, Ćazim Ašimović, and my son Jakup […]
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 […]