Inge Auerbacher

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Inge Auerbacher speaks on Holocaust Remembrance Day in Washington in 2013

Inge Auerbacher (born December 31, 1934 in Kippenheim ) is an American chemist of German origin. She processed her experiences as a survivor of the Holocaust in several books that have been translated into different languages.

Life

Inge Auerbacher, daughter of Berthold Auerbacher and Regina Auerbacher, née Lauchheimer, grew up as the only child in a devout Jewish family and spent her childhood in Jebenhausen and Göppingen . At the age of seven, she was deported with her parents to the Theresienstadt ghetto in August 1942 . After the camp was liberated by the Red Army on May 8, 1945, the family first went to a DP refugee camp in Stuttgart and then returned to Göppingen for a short time. In May 1946, the family emigrated to the United States aboard a troop transport ship and settled in New Yorklow. In 1953 Auerbacher was granted US citizenship .

Auerbacher published her childhood memoirs in the United States in 1986, and a German translation appeared in 1990.

On Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2022, she spoke in the German Bundestag and appealed to the people of Germany to oppose anti-Semitism .

awards

factories

  • i am a star Weinheim, 1990, 1992. ISBN 3-407-78136-9 (Translated by Mirjam Pressler ) - Original I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust. Puffin Books, 1993, ISBN 0-14-036401-3
  • Beyond the yellow star. Konstanz, 2005. ISBN 3-89649-969-6 (Editor Erhard R Wiehn. Translated by Irmi Cummings) - Original Beyond the Yellow Star to America. Royal Fireworks Pub, 2003. ISBN 0-88092-252-4 .
  • finding dr Treasure: The Discovery of Streptomycin and a Life It Saved. LightningSource. UK Ltd, 2006. ISBN 0-595-37997-4
  • Anton Hegele (ed.), Inge Auerbacher: 800 years of Jebenhausen: from the knightly village to the city district. Göppingen, 2006. Publications of the Göppingen City Archive, Volume 46.

literature

  • Gardy-Käthe Ruder: Holocaust in the memory of a doll. On the way on traces of life by and with Inge Auerbacher. Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag (DWV), Baden-Baden, 2005. ISBN 3-935176-46-5 .

itemizations

  1. ↑ "Anti-Semitism is among us". In: tagesschau.de . January 27, 2022, retrieved January 27, 2022 .
  2. ↑ René Schlott: "I did not live for hatred". In: Der Spiegel (online) . January 26, 2022, retrieved January 27, 2022 .
  3. ↑ Honorary citizen. Retrieved January 21, 2022 .

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personal data
SURNAME Auerbacher, Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, Holocaust survivor
BIRTH DATE December 31, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Kippenheim