Erika Arlt

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Erika Arlt 2008

Erika Arlt (born March 30, 1926 in Oberröblingen as Erika Röder ; † November 12, 2015 ) was a German homeland researcher . In 1997 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for her research work on the fate of the survivors of the Lost Train and the associated events in the last days of World War II, as well as for her commitment to the preservation and care of the Jewish cemetery in Tröbitz in southern Brandenburg in the Elbe-Elster district .

Life

The Jewish cemetery in Tröbitz.
Erika Arlt 2008 together with the Holocaust survivor Arieh Koretz

Born in Oberröblingen near Sangerhausen in 1926 , Arlt obtained a commercial degree from the Halle City Trade School between 1940 and 1942. After doing several accounting jobs on agricultural goods, she married Richard Arlt in 1952 and worked as a housewife from then on. Since 1957 she lived in the southern Brandenburg community of Tröbitz, following her husband, who had been transferred there in 1952. From 1970 to 1974 she worked at the Bad Liebenwerda military district command , then until 1988 at Elektroanlagenbau Tröbitz. In Tröbitz, she has been researching the events of the so-called Lost Train , a transport with around 2,000 completely exhausted Jewish prisoners from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , which was carried out in Tröbitz in April 1945 in the last days of the Second World War in Tröbitz arrived. In years of detailed work, she documented the events during the journey and the time after the typhoid-infested train reached Tröbitz and once again claimed victims among the inmates, but also among the local residents who were infected while caring for the sick in the quarantine location.

Arlt was an important contact person for the survivors and the relatives of the victims of the transport during investigations and visits to Tröbitz.

Erika Arlt, who published the 40-page documentation The Jewish Memorials Tröbitz, Wildgrube, Langennaundorf and Schilda in 1999, presented a multi-volume collection of material with her findings about the "Lost Train" to the Finsterwalder District Museum and the memorial in Bergen-Belsen . In April 2011, a completely revised and expanded version of the 1999 documentation about the Jewish memorials was published under her direction. Shortly before, Erika Arlt's merits were also recognized in the book Verplicht gelukkig by the Dutch author Saskia Goldschmidt, who devoted several pages in this family chronicle to Tröbitzer.

Honors

Fonts

  • The lost transport from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. In: Home calendar for the old district of Bad Liebenwerda, the Mückenberger Ländchen, outskirts on Schraden and Uebigau-Falkenberg. Ed. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde eV Bad Liebenwerda, Bad Liebenwerda 1995, pp. 89–94.
  • Never forget. Self-published, 1996, 110 pages.
  • The Jewish memorials in Tröbitz, Wildgrube, Langennaundorf and Schilda in the Elbe-Elster district. Published by the Elbe-Elster district, Herzberg 1999, 40 pages. (2nd, expanded edition 2011, 88 pages)
  • Rainer Bauer (eds.): Erika and Richard Arlt: Two Lives for the GDR: a German history book , Verlag am park, Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-945187-90-6 .

Web links

Commons : Erika Arlt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Landkreis awarded culture prizes. In Kreisanzeiger for the Elbe-Elster district. No. 10/2009
  2. ↑ Saskia Goldschmidt: Verplicht gelukkig - Portret van een familie. Cossee 2011, ISBN 90-5936-308-6
  3. ↑ Successful obligation .
personal data
SURNAME Arlt, Erika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roeder, Erika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberröblingen
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 2015