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 Zeit: 1939-1945
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]