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Sophie Turner-Zaretsky and her family were forced into the ghetto when the Germans occupied Lviv. In 1942, her father acquired false documents for her and her mother, enabling their escape. One day, Sophie received a stuffed bear from her mother. “She later named it ‘Refugee,‘ just like she and her mother were refugees of the Read More
The “Song of the Peat Bog Soldiers” has been named the “most famous of all concentration camp songs”1 and a “unique example of a European musical circulation before, during, and after the Second World War.”2 Prisoners in the Börgermoor concentration camp created the song in 1933. It describes and criticizes the conditions of the camp Read More
“Children of my age were already considered dead.”1 This is how a seven-year-old Jewish girl recalls her situation in the Lityn ghetto. Betia is one of the few Jewish children who were lucky enough to survive the Holocaust and the so-called ‘children’s pogrom’ (shooting). The seven-year-old girl’s quote shows that children were specifically targeted and Read More
Franz Stuschka, SS-Obersturmführer and one of Eichmann’s men from their days together working in Vienna at the Central Office for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle für Jüdische Auswanderung) drew a very detailed map of a camp in Wulkow east of Berlin after the war. With this map, the defendant aimed to prove to the Vienna People’s Court Read More