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+ | ====== MY ENCOUNTER WITH RUTH AND GITTEL SÜSSMANN’S STORY ====== | ||
+ | //Text: Inge Franken// | ||
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+ | One morning in January 2002, my friend Salomea rang me up. She knew that I was trying to discover the history of the children’s home in Fehrbelliner Strasse 92, and she had told Eva Nickel, who works in the Jewish Community of Berlin, about my efforts. This is how I found out that Eva Nickel' | ||
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+ | Frau Nickel told me straight away, on the telephone, that her two sisters had been deported on one of the last “transports”, | ||
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+ | At our meeting a few days later, in Christinenstrasse, | ||
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+ | The life stories of Eva Nickel’s mother and sisters make it easy for me to understand her reservations about me, as I am not Jewish. We talked a great deal about ourselves, about living with the family history and the heritage which we each feel, in very different ways. We looked at photos together and were aware of the spirit of the past, but also of our present, which bound us together. When I asked Eva Nickel, who was born some years after the end of the war, whether she had written down the story of her mother and sisters, she simply said, “No, I don’t feel able to do that, but Regina Scheer has done it.” This is how I heard of the book “Leben mit der Erinnerung. Jüdisches Leben in Prenzlauer Berg” [Living with Memories. Jewish Life in Prenzlauer Berg: author’s translation], | ||
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+ | In subsequent years, many new documents have been discovered about the children and their life with their so-called “saviour” in Weimar. Beate Kosmala of the Centre for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) in Berlin has researched some stories in detail, including that of Ruth and Gittel, within the framework of the project “Rettung der Juden im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland” [Saving Jews in Germany under National Socialism], and she discovered further documents in Yad Vashem. In addition, new documents were discovered in the archive of the Jewish Community in Berlin, so Frau Kosmala was able to rewrite the story of the short lives of the two girls. But we are increasingly aware that what really happened becomes less clear, the more we try to find out about the events. | ||
+ | Ruth and Gittel are the only kindergarten children whose fate I can trace to its terrible end. | ||
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+ | Eva Nickel’s house was returned to her ownership on 2 February 2000, after a legal battle lasting several years. Today she lives in the house which has belonged to her family for over a century. | ||
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+ | [[thanks# |
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