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- Title:
- Eyewitness account by Lutz Hammer entitled 'My Illegal Life, Deportation and Liberation'
- Summary:
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The author was interviewed by Dr. Wolfgang Scheffler in Berlin.
He reports on antisemitismin a Berlin school in 1933. Forced labour for boys under sixteen: sixty hours a week for about 25 Pfennig an hour. In order to avoid impending deportation to Poland, at the end of 1942 (p.1,4), he went to live with a “Mischling” (p.1-3), now his brother-in-law, who was already hiding his father and sister as well.
Non-Jews helping Jews, among them Dr. George Grosscurth, Robert Koch-Krankenhaus, who was later executed for his work with a Resistance Group, liquidated, in the Autumn 1943 (p.2,4). Frightened, the three illegal guests left their hiding place which was bombed out, soon afterwards. Bombenscheine (p.2, 4). The author's sister went with her fiancé into hiding at Vienna, the other two found a little room in Karow near Bernau (p.2-3) under false pretenses and through a forged document. Arrested by the Wehrmacht, the author and his father were taken to the Jewish Sammellager Schulstrasse; ill-treatment through Gestapo (p.3-5). Deportation via Auschwitz to Sachsenhausen (p.3). In February 1945, the author was separated from his father and never saw him again. Transports to Neubrandenburg, Ravensbruck, a small camp near Ludwigslust (p.3-4). Rote Kapelle resistance group (p.4). Volksdeutsche SS (p.3-4).
- Witness:
- Hammer, Lutz
- Number of pages:
- 6 pieces
- Date(s):
- 1960
- Catalogue ID:
- 105384
- Reference number:
- 1656/3/4/1195
- Location:
- Berlin-Pankow
- Date Range:
- 1939-1945
- Type of Material:
- Eyewitness account