Dagmar Ostermann

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Dagmar Ostermann , born as Dagmar Bock (* December 6, 1920 in Vienna ; † December 28, 2010 there ) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor and for many years a contemporary witness of the National Socialist regime . As a so-called valid Jew , she was on an equal footing with Jews on the Jewish question.

Life

After the “ Anschluss of Austria ” in March 1938, she moved in April 1938 to live with her mother's parents and siblings in Dresden. The Gestapo became aware of her in 1941 . In August 1942 she was arrested as a "first degree mongrel" , with which her "life journey through concentration camps", as she later called her memories, began: First deportation to Ravensbrück concentration camp and later to Auschwitz I concentration camp . In Auschwitz she was a clerk at the registry office, which enabled her to survive. In November 1944 she was transferred back to the Ravensbrück concentration camp and later to the Malchow subcamp (Mecklenburg) , where she was used as a slave laborer for Dynamit Nobel. In May 1945 the camp was liberated by US soldiers and Dagmar Ostermann set out on foot for home.

Since her return on May 31, 1945, Dagmar Ostermann lived in Vienna.

In the 1986 presidential election campaign ( Waldheim affair ), she began to go public with her past and Austria's past. She attended a large number of Austrian school classes as a contemporary witness. She was general secretary of the Austrian camp community Auschwitz .

Awards

  • In 1997 she was awarded the "Golden Merit of the Republic of Austria".

media

  • Dagmar Ostermann, Martin Krist: A life journey through concentration camps , ISBN 3851324196
  • The Meeting: An Auschwitz Survivor Confronts an SS Physician , ISBN 0815606044 , conversation with the concentration camp doctor Hans Münch
  • Bernhard Frankfurter (ed.): The encounter. Auschwitz: A victim and a perpetrator in conversation. Publishing house for social criticism, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-85115-222-0
  • Evelyn Steinthaler (ed.): Women 1938 - Persecuted - Resistant - Followers , ISBN 978-3-85286-161-6 , contains conversations with Ceija Stojka , Dagmar Ostermann, Katharina Sasso and Elfriede Gerstl
  • Marieka Schmiedt: BUT I WANT TO BE BURIED IN AUSCHWITZ - The story of Dagmar Ostermann , art brut video
  • Michael Lemberger (editor): Conversation with contemporary witnesses: Dagmar Ostermann: Experiences and reflections , Audiobook, ISBN 3900999031

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personal data
SURNAME Ostermann, Dagmar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bock, Dagmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian contemporary witness of the Nazi regime
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 2010
Place of death Vienna , Austria