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ドイツ(Germany 🇩🇪): The forgotten children

2020-09-29 17:02:06 | 日記

2020年9月29日(Tue.) ナチ時代の悲しい記憶を留める努力を続ける人たちがいます。ハンブルグで犠牲になった人々のことを、Stolpersteine (stumbling stones = つまずく石)に託しています。(ニュースソース: DWーDE  9月28日発 )

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The forgotten children of Hamburg's forced labor camps

Hundreds of women and children were sent to forced labor camps in Hamburg during the Nazi era. A psychologist has launched a campaign to remember their lives with "stumbling stones."

The names featured on the new stumbling stones unveiled in Hamburg belong to persons whose lives were cut too short

Recently 49 new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) were laid into the concrete sidewalk in the Hamburg suburb of Langenhorn. They carry the names of 49 children who died there during World War II. 

The names on the little memorial stones are mostly Eastern European-sounding, names of small children whose mothers had been sent to forced labor camps for the Nazi regime.

Read more: Germany: 75,000th 'Stolperstein' for Holocaust victims laid

Chance encounter unearths hundreds of stories

It was only about 10 years ago that Hamburg-based psychologist Margot Löhr discovered these children's fates — entirely by chance. Taking a close look at Hamburg death registers, she found numerous files containing the names of children and infants. Their official place of residence was listed as a former forced labor camp in Hamburg. 

"I wanted to follow up on the fate of these children," said Löhr.

She compiled 418 names of children, most between the ages of 10 and 14, but many of them babies. They and their mothers had been forced by the Nazis to work in various factories.

They included, for example, a young woman named Nadeshda who had entered the Hohenzollernring camp in Hamburg as a 4-year-old. In her later memoirs, she recalled that her parents and 14-year-old brother had to work hard in the factory and that her brother had been beaten by guards — for accidentally dropping a barrel that had been too heavy for him to carry.

Margot Löhr spent 10 years investigating the short lives of the children murdered by the Nazis in Hamburg

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