Das Gespräch mit Barbara Piotrowska wird Polnisch-Deutsch übersetzt. Die übrigen drei Gespräche finden auf Englisch ohne Übersetzung statt.

Martin Liebl (Prague, Czechia) will talk about his mother, Dagmar Lieblová (née Fantlová, 1929–2018), who was the only survivor of a Czech Jewish family. She was a prisoner in the Theresienstadt ghetto as well as the Auschwitz concentration camp, three satellite camps of Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen, and she was a tireless fighter against forgetting. Throughout her life, she spoke especially to young people about what happened to her family. Today her son Martin continues her remembrance work in Czechia.

Helga Melmed (Venice, Florida) was deported from Berlin to the Litzmannstadt/ Łódź ghetto with her Jewish family at the age of 13. Her father was shot there. Her mother died of hunger and disease. Helga Melmed survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, several satellite camps of the Neuengamme concentration camp, and the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Today she lives in the USA.

Barbara Piotrowska (Warsaw) and her family were deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp in 1944 following the Warsaw Uprising. In Neuengamme, men were separated from the group. Barbara Piotrowska’s father was murdered there while she and her mother were deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. They both survived and returned to Poland.

Kristof Van Mierop (Dudzele, Belgium) will talk about his grandfather, the Belgian resistance fighter Roger Vyvey, who survived Bremen-Blumenthal, a satellite camp of the Neuengamme concentration camp, as well as the bombing of the prisoner ships in Lübeck Bay. Kristof Van Mierop has been involved in the Belgian Amicale since 2015 and has been secretary general of the Amicale Internationale KZ Neuengamme since 2019, actively campaigning against the forgetting of Nazi crimes.

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