• In 2010 these survivor attended the
    commemoration ceremonies on the
    occasion of the 65th anniversary
    of the liberation at Ravensbrueck.

  • Bertus Bavelaar from the Netherlands
    was imprisoned in the
    Neuengamme concentration
    camp. With his son and daughter-
    in-law he attended the commemorations
    on the occasion of the 65th anniversary
    of the Cap Arcona catastrophe in the Bay of Neustadt.

  • Joseph „Joe“ Moser from the USA
    was imprisoned in the Buchenwald
    concentration camp after having
    been brought down with his
    plane in World War II. He belonged
    to the 168 allied pilots who were supposed to be executed,
    but were rescued from Buchenwald by German pilots
    and were transferred to a POW-camp instead. 2010 he
    visited the commemorations on the occasion of the 65th
    anniversary of the liberation at the Buchenwald memorial
    and talked to pupils in Weimar about his experiences.

  • Marian Hawling from Poland was
    one of the survivors of the prison
    ship Cap Arcona which was sunk
    in the Bay of Neustadt on May 3,
    1945. After the war he emigrated
    to Australia, while he refused to talk about his concentration
    camp experiences for more than 40 years. In May
    2010 he returned with his children Michelle and Mark
    to commemorate the sinking of the ship 65 years earlier.

  • Hédi Fried, née Szmuk, her sister
    and parents were prosecuted
    as Jews and deported from
    Hungary to Auschwitz-Birkenau
    where the parents were murdered.
    Having survived the concentration camps Auschwitz,
    Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen the sisters Hédi
    and Livia emigrated to Sweden after the war. The photo
    shows Hédi Fried during the conference “Survivors talk
    to their children” at the Neuengamme memorial in 2010.

  • The Ukrainian survivor Viktor Savytskyi
    (right) meets his former
    liberator Clarence H. Brockman
    (left) from the US on the occasion
    of the 65th anniversary of
    the liberation. At the Buchenwald memorial in 2010.

  • Maria Jaworska’s family was
    part of the Polish intelligentsia.
    This is why she was deported
    to a youth camp in Łodz, after
    that to Ravensbrueck and
    finally to Bergen-Belsen, where she was liberated.
    She visited the Bergen-Belsen memorial in 2007.

  • The Italian resistance fighter Sergio
    Peletta was deported to the
    Flossenbuerg concentration camp.
    In April 2010 he and his family visited
    the Flossenbuerg memorial
    on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the liberation.

  • The Flossenbuerg memorial
    in 2010

  • Raymonde Métra from France was
    deported to the Ravensbrueck
    concentration camp as a child. She
    came back in 2010 for the commemorations
    on the occasion of the 65th
    anniversary of the liberation. Raymonde Métra died in 2011.

  • Yvonne Koch, born Poláková, was
    prosecuted on grounds of racism
    and deported from Czechoslovakia
    to Bergen-Belsen. She was eleven
    years old and without her family. She
    was fataly ill when she was liberated on April 15, 1945. She
    lives in Germany. In 2010 she talked about her experiences
    at the International Youth Workcamp at Bergen-Belsen.

  • Aleksander Henryk Laks and his
    entire family were deported to Auschwitz-
    Birkenau and Flossenbuerg
    when he was only a teenager.
    Being the only one in his family
    to have survived, Aleksander emigrated to Brazil. Here
    he is teaching students about the trucks in which people
    were gassed before gas chambers came into use.
    His grandfather was killed in such a truck in Chełmno.

  • In 1942 the Dutchman Robert von
    Gelder was shot while attempting
    to escape from Mauthausen. At the
    Mauthausen memorial in 2010.

  • Viktor Karpus was deported
    from the Soviet Union to the
    concentration camps Buchenwald
    and Mittelbau-Dora. In
    2010 he attended the commemoration
    ceremonies at the Mittelbau-Dora memorial.

  • Ed Carter-Edwards from Canada
    was imprisoned in the Buchenwald
    concentration camp
    after having been brought down
    with his plane in World War
    II. He belonged to the 168 allied pilots who later were
    rescued from Buchenwald by German pilots and detained
    in a POW-camp instead. In 2010 he attended
    the commemoration on the occasion of the 65th anniversary
    of the liberation at the Buchenwald memorial.

  • At the Buchenwald memorial
    in 2010

  • At the Bergen-Belsen memorial
    in 2007

  • Salomon Finkelstein from Poland
    was persecuted for rassistic reasons.
    He survived the ghetto in
    Lodz and the concentrationcamps
    Auschwitz and Mittelbau Dora and
    was liberated during the death march near the concentrationcamp
    Ravensbrück. He lives in Germany today. In
    2011 he attended a commemoration on the occasion of
    the 66th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen.

  • Tadeusz Stanisław Krystyniak and
    his father were deported from
    Warsaw after the Warsaw Uprising
    in 1944. They were sent to Stutthof,
    Neuengamme and Salzgitter-
    Watenstedt. The father died there. Tadeusz was liberated
    from the Ravensbrueck concentration camp. In 2010 he
    and his daughter Maria attended the conference “Survivors
    talk to their children” at the Neuengamme memorial.

  • Kathrin Herold, freelancing pedagogue
    at the Neuengamme memorial,
    guiding a group of pupils in 2010.

  • At the Bergen-Belsen memorial

    in 2011

  • 65th anniversary of the liberation at
    the Ravensbrueck memorial in 2010

  • 65th anniversary of the liberation at
    the Mauthausen memorial in 2010

  • 65th anniversary of the liberation at
    the Mauthausen memorial in 2010

  • The Polish survivor Jan Rychlinski
    with Anna Buszka, on the occasion
    of the 65th anniversary of the liberation
    at the Mauthausen memorial
    2010. Having met in Polen Jan
    Rychlinski invited the nurse Anna Buszka to join him on his
    visit to Austria as he was not accompanied by his relatives.

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Concentration camp survivors and Those Who Will Follow Them

Mark Mühlhaus