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Helena Citrónová ( Hebrew: הלנה ציטרון; 26 August 1922 – 4 June 2007) [1] [2] was a Slovak Holocaust survivor. At the Auschwitz concentration camp, she had a romantic relationship with the Austrian SS- Unterscharführer Franz Wunsch. Her story was covered in the BBC documentary series Auschwitz: The Nazis and 'The Final Solution ...
These appeared in Warsaw as Zbiór śpiewów polskich Fryderyka Chopina ( A Collection of Polish Songs by Frédéric Chopin ), published by Gebethner & Wolff; and in Berlin as 16 Polnische Lieder, published by A M Schlesinger. The 17th song, Śpiew z mogiłki ( Hymn from the Tomb) was published separately in Berlin with a French title, Chant du ...
Hans Münch. Hans Wilhelm Münch (14 May 1911 – 6 December 2001), also known as The Good Man of Auschwitz, was a German Nazi Party member who worked as an SS physician during World War II at the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943 to 1945 in German occupied Poland. He was acquitted of war crimes at a 1947 trial in Kraków .
Contemplation. (short story collection) Betrachtung (published in English as Meditation or Contemplation) is a collection of eighteen short stories by Franz Kafka written between 1904 and 1912. It was Kafka's first published book, printed at the end of 1912 (with the publication year given as "1913") in the Rowohlt Verlag on an initiative by ...
The Zürau Aphorisms ( German: Die Zürauer Aphorismen) are 109 aphorisms of Franz Kafka, written from September 1917 to April 1918 and published by his friend Max Brod in 1931, after his death. They are selected from his writing in Zürau in West Bohemia (now Siřem in the community of Blšany) where, suffering from tuberculosis, he stayed ...
Kleist family. The House of Kleist is the name of an old and distinguished Prussian noble family, originating in Pomerania, whose members obtained many important military and administrative positions within the Kingdom of Prussia and later in the German Empire. Members of the family served as officers in Prussian and German conflicts including ...
Hermann Wunsch (9 August 1884 – 21 December 1954) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist and lecturer in composition. Life and career [ edit ] Born in Neuss , Wunsch was born in Neuss, Rhineland, in 1884, the son of the railway works master Balthasar Wunsch and his wife Amalie Hafels. [1]
Established by Rudolf Höss in December 1940 or January 1941, [7] the Erkennungsdienst was based on the ground floor of block 26 in Auschwitz I, where there was a studio and darkroom. [8] Bernhard Walter was director of the Erkennungsdienst. [9] He was born on 27 April 1911 in Fürth, Bavaria, and joined the SS when he was 22, on 2 May 1933 ...