„Ich lag auf meiner Pritsche, als ich den Schrei: »Wir brennen!« hörte.“: Lesung und Gespräch zum Massaker von Abtnaundorf

Anne Friebel (GfZL) in conversation with Jelena Rother and Maximilian Schulz

On April 18, 1945, numerous prisoners of the "Leipzig-Thekla" subcamp were fighting for their survival. Shortly beforehand, the SS had dissolved the camp and driven the prisoners on so-called death marches. Sick prisoners were left behind. At midday on April 18, they were locked in a barrack by the SS, which was doused with an accelerant and set on fire. A few prisoners managed to escape through the windows and over the fence. At the evening event, memoirs of survivors of the massacre will be read and the historian Maximilian Schulz will contextualize this final phase crime.

Jelena Rother is the author of the brochure "Die Erla-Werke GmbH und das Massaker von Abtnaundorf" and Dr. des. Maximilian Schulz is a research assistant at the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial and wrote his doctoral thesis on the system of subcamps of Erla-Maschinenwerk GmbH Leipzig 1943-1945.

The event is part of the project #BefreitInLeipzig1945.

Venue:

Schönefeld Library
Shukowstraße 56, Leipzig-Schönefeld
Streetcar 1, bus 70 and 90 (Löbauer Straße)