Eine Kindheit im Schatten der Shoah - Besuch einer Zeitzeugin

In the organizer's words:

Holocaust survivor Henriette Kretz will be talking to pupils as a contemporary witness in the week after Easter. On April 22, she will also tell her story at a public evening event in the central library of the Bücherhallen.

The visit is organized by the Maximilian-Kolbe-Werk Freiburg e.V. in cooperation with the Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Hamburg and the Katholische Akademie Hamburg.

About the person

Henriette KretzOlaf Kosinsky (kosinsky.eu)

Henriette Kretz was born on October 26, 1934 into a Jewish family in the then Polish town of Stanisawów (now Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine).

After the invasion of Poland in the fall of 1939, the family fled from the advancing Germans. Henriette and her parents first came to Lemberg and soon afterwards to neighboring Sambor. But in 1941, the war and the Germans caught up with the family there too. They had to move to the Jewish district of the city, where a ghetto was set up shortly afterwards. After Henriette's parents were shot in front of her, she herself survived in hiding in an orphanage.

Henriette Kretz has been trying for years to build a bridge from the past to the present by giving talks in Germany: "Exclusion starts very quickly, there is always a reason." She appeals: "Always see a person as a person."

The event will be recorded.
Registration at the link www.buecherhallen.de/zentralbibliothek-termin/eine-kindheit-im-schatten-der-shoah.html is required.

Moderation: Stephanie Roth.

Responsible:
Markus Hengelhaupt, markus.hengelhaupt@bsb.hamburg.de

More information: zeitzeugen@stephanie-roth.de

Price information:

Please reserve a ticket