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“The children all spoke broken German with a Polish accent. After a while, Frahm came in and said that the children should remove their clothes. I saw that they were rather reluctant to do so, and… more
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It was the only camp in the Third Reich classified as category 3, which stood for extermination through work. The prisoners were forced to work e.g. in the quarries of Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke… more
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Birkenau by Gerhard Richter as a place of remembrance
After 1945 there were only a few attempts to use authentic pictorial material from the concentration camps for artistic purposes. The shock of… more
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The “Nasza Droga” newspaper was published from December 1952 to December 1981 in Adelaide, the capital of the state of South Australia, although it was published by different organisations and people… more
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According to the Danzig City Councillor and author of a catalogue of works published in 1890 in Danzig, Julius C. Block, Jeremias Falck was “born in a German city, a German artist […] But merit… more
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The estate of Aureli Topolnicki, resident between 1945 and 1951 in the DP camp in Wildflecken (Durzyn)
The estate of Aureli Topolnicki (1907–1988) comprises 147 documents (including some copies),… more
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Only six graves remain, three are considered missing and four have not been located. In 1959, the Polish minority magazine "Polok" informed about the levelling of Polish war graves in Meppen. Small… more
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An “intellectual programme” in Basel
On 31. October 2014, just 11 months after being appointed the future head of the Documenta, Adam Szymczyk took his leave as the director of the Kunsthalle in… more