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​​Ludwig Heinen​
​​Ludwig Heinen​

Der Pfarrer von Roetgen gehörte 1945 zu den ersten Menschen, die von den US-Truppen befreit wurden. Er war einer von vie...

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Franz Oppenhoff
Franz Oppenhoff

Der erste freie Bürgermeister von Aachen, Franz Oppenhoff, wurde unmittelbar nach der Befreiung von den Nazis ermordet....

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Die US-Armee in Deutschland: Der Weg nach Aachen
Die US-Armee in Deutschland: Der Weg nach Aachen

Der Einmarsch der US-Truppen in Deutschland zielte zunächst auf die Großstadt Aachen. Am 21. Oktober 1944 wurde die weit...

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Milena Bernabò
Milena Bernabò

Milena Bernabò war 15 Jahre alt, als sie und viele weitere Menschen am 12. August 1944 zusammengetrieben und in einem St...

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Enio Mancini
Enio Mancini

Enio Mancini war am Tag des Massakers vom 12. August 1944 sechs Jahre alt. Er lebte in dem Ort Sennari, wo die Nazis Häu...

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NN. Author of the letter from the Lublin ghetto
NN. Author of the letter from the Lublin ghetto

In 1942 German forces began deporting Jews from the Lublin ghetto to the Bełżec extermination camp. No records were kept...

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Leopolda Bartolucci
Leopolda Bartolucci

Leopolda Bartolucci was the only child of elderly parents. On the morning of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre, she esc...

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Adolf Beckert
Adolf Beckert

Adolf Beckert was a gunner in the 16th Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS who participated in the Sant'Anna di Sta...

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Enrico Pieri
Enrico Pieri

Enrico Pieri, was ten years old on the day of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre. On the morning of 12 August 1944, he w...

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Genny Bibolotti Marsili
Genny Bibolotti Marsili

Genny Bibolotti Marsili was displaced from Pietrasanta with her son Mario. She was rounded up and taken to a stable in t...

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​​Elena Guadagnucci​
​​Elena Guadagnucci​

​​​Elena Guadagnucci and her son Alberto were living in Sant’Anna di Stazzema when the massacre took place. Elena was wi...

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Don Innocenzo Lazzeri
Don Innocenzo Lazzeri

Don Innocenzo Lazzeri, parish priest of Farnocchia, fled to the church of Sant'Anna. The testimonies recall his vain att...

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​​Cesira Pardini​
​​Cesira Pardini​

​​​Cesira Pardini was the eldest daughter of a family of nine children. On the day of the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre...

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Antonio Tucci
Antonio Tucci

Antonio Tucci was lieutenant in the navy. After the Italian armistice (September 8, 1943) he fled to Sant'Anna di Stazze...

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Children from the nursery
Children from the nursery

On 24 March 1942, children from the Jewish orphanage in Lublin were woken up by German SS and police personnel. They wer...

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Henio Żytomirski
Henio Żytomirski

Henio Żytomirski was a Jewish boy from Lublin who grew up during the Second World War. After the nazi occupation of Pola...

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Rose Lipszyc
Rose Lipszyc

Rose Lipszyc was a Jewish girl from Lublin who narrowly escaped deportation to an extermination camp. A farmer she knew ...

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Thomas Blatt
Thomas Blatt

Thomas Blatt was sent to the Sobibór extermination camp in 1943. He was one of only 300 Jews who managed to escape the c...

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Anna Langfus
Anna Langfus

Anna Langfus was a Jewish woman from Lublin. She spent time in the ghettos of Lublin and Warsaw and worked as a messeng...

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Zalcman Family
Zalcman Family

Szlama and Hena Zalcman were a Jewish couple from Lublin Region, who started their family in Antwerp before the war. The...

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Odilo Globocnik
Odilo Globocnik

Odilo Globocnik was a commander of the SS and police in the Lublin district, responsible for realizing Operation Reinhar...

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Raden Mas Djajeng Pratomo

Born into a family of nobility in nowadays Indonesia, ‘Prat’ became involved in the resistance in the Netherlands. He su...

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Adam Szczerkowski
Adam Szczerkowski

Adam Szczerkowski was sent to Buchenwald Concentration Camp for “forbidden contact with German women”. The SS murdered h...

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Bruno Apitz
Bruno Apitz

As a German communist, Bruno Apitz had been persecuted since 1933. He spent more than seven years as a political prisone...

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