Hannele Zürndorfer
Hannele (Hanna) Zürndorfer (born December 5, 1925 in Düsseldorf ) is a child of Jewish parents and wrote a book about her experiences in the Third Reich . She lives in Scotland today .
Life
Hannele Zürndorfer spent her childhood and school days in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim . After the "takeover" of the Nazis , she suffered from the Nazi regime . She was forced to change schools and left Germany with her sister Lotte in 1939. She moved to England and now lives in Scotland. Her parents, father Adolf Zürndorfer, was the publishing director and theater critic of the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and her mother Elisabeth Dorothea, née Rheinheimer, were deported to the Litzmannstadt ghetto in 1941, where they perished. In order to process her experiences, she regularly visited Germany after the war and took part in memorial and information events.
She wrote a book with the title Lost World - Jewish Childhood in the Third Reich , which is also available in a shortened version as a school reading book (Lost World - Jewish Childhood from 1925 to 1939) . In it she describes her Jewish childhood in the “Third Reich” and the other events up to the end of the war. Among other things, she described how she experienced the pogrom night of November 9, 1938 at the age of twelve . According to Zürndorfer, around three to four in the morning, a dozen Nazis stormed their parents' house and devastated the facility and destroyed everything that fell into their hands. She reports how the men yelled at her and threw objects around the room. When her father later wanted to report the attack to the police, the officer he met was understanding, but he indicated that the police were not allowed to intervene. They realized that Jews were now outlawed.
Your former school in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim was renamed Hanna-Zürndorfer-Schule in 2003. Stumbling blocks for their parents were laid in front of their parents' house at Sonnbornstrasse 59 .
Hannele Zürndörfer describes the Reichskristallnacht on November 9, 1938 from her perspective at the age of 12. She describes how in the early hours of the morning many people, "Nazis", stormed into the house of the Zürndörfer family with a great roar. They were armed with "axes, sledgehammers, stones and knives" and destroyed all of the family's belongings. After everything was destroyed, the "Nazis" left the Zürndörfers house. Hannele suspected that they would come back to kill her, but no one came. She can still remember exactly how her father later sat "slumped" on a chair in the kitchen and cried. When her father tried to file a complaint with the police at some point, the officer was understanding, but was ordered not to intervene.
The documentary “Traces of a lost world - remembering is life” was shot in 2009 about the life of Hannele Zürndorfer. The premiere of the film took place on November 9, 2011 in the Prime Time Theater Berlin. The idea for the film came from a resident who lives in Hannele Zürndorfer's former parents' house on Sonnbornstrasse. The suggestion for the documentary was implemented by the filmmaker Heidi Munck. The documentary has a length of 35 minutes and is suitable for children from the age of six, but also for young people and adults. The pupils of the Hanna Zürndorfer Elementary School and the Rudolf Steiner Comprehensive School contributed to the documentary. The film was shot in the Gerresheim district of Düsseldorf. The content is about creating a bridge between the past and the present. The project was supported by several sponsors, such as the educational research center, Chamäleon Film and the historians Gaby and Peter Schulenberg.
Works
- Lost World - Jewish Childhood from 1925 to 1939. (Translated from the English by Rotraut Weisbecker, abridged version), Kallmeyer, Seelze 2005, ISBN 3-7800-2073-4 .
- Lost World - Jewish Childhood in the Third Reich. Centaurus Verlags-Gesellschaft, Pfaffenweiler 1988, ISBN 3-89085-252-1 .
- The Ninth of November. Quartet Books, London / Melbourne / New York 1983, ISBN 0-7043-2376-1 (original edition).
- History book - Times and People 3 / Schöningh Verlag, ISBN 978-3-14-034517-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Hannele Zürndorfer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hanna-Zürndorfer Schule: Intentions for naming , on Hanna-Zürndorfer Schule, accessed on February 28, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Austermann, L .: Times and People 3 . 2009, p. 139 .
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/embed/ScI_d_aT0VM?autoplay=1
- ↑ https://www.yumpu.com/de/document/read/7912547/filmpremiere-einladen-erinnern-heisst-leben-jugenddokument
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zürndorfer, Hannele |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zürndorfer, Hanna |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |