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

Martin Liebl (Prague) and Peter & Moira Hart (Wheathampstead, United Kingdom) will talk about their mothers Dagmar Lieblová (née Fantlová, 1929-2018) and Kitty Hart-Moxon (née Kitty Felix, *1926). Both were the only survivors of their Jewish families, prisoners in Auschwitz, subcamps of Neuengamme, and Bergen-Belsen, who tirelessly fought against forgetting as long as they could. Today their sons are continuing the work of their mothers.

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.

Informationen und Anmeldung (erforderlich!) bei Ulrike Jensen (E-Mail: ulrike.jensen@gedenkstaetten.hamburg.de, Tel.: +49 (0)40 428 131 519).

Three conversations will be held in English without translation. Please register at Ulrike.jensen@gedenkstaetten.hamburg.de.