Nechama Drober

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Nechama Drober , b. Hella Markowsky (* 1927 in Königsberg i. Pr. ) Is a German-Israeli author . You and Michael Wieck are the only German Jews still alive who can testify to the persecution of the Jewish population by the Germans and the situation under Soviet rule in Königsberg.

Life

On June 24th and on June 24th and 25th In August 1942 she was an eyewitness to the German deportations of Jews from Königsberg . She lost close friends, relatives and schoolmates. Less than three years later, she saw the battle of Königsberg and the capture of East Prussia's provincial capital by the Red Army . In April 1945 her father was deported to Siberia . Her mother Martha and her five-year-old brother Denny died of starvation. Reviled as a “German fascist”, she fled via Lithuania to Kishinev in Moldova . In 1990, at the age of 63, she emigrated from there to Israel .

To commemorate the deported Jews in Kaliningrad , she initiated the installation of a memorial plaque at the Kaliningrad Severny train station . The plaque was inaugurated on June 24, 2011.

In a conversation with eyewitnesses on June 20, 2012 in the Berlin Centrum Judaicum , she spoke about her homeland in Königsberg. Among the 120 guests were Bundestag President Norbert Lammert and Klaus Weigelt , Chairman of the Königsberg City Community.

Honors

Works

  • My name is Nechama now. Story of a life between Königsberg i. Pr., Moldova and Israel . Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-019740-6

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jewish General (June 28, 2012)
  2. ↑ Königsberger Bürgerbrief No. 78 (Winter 2011), pp. 81–83
  3. ^ Foundation Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, search function
  4. ^ Communication from the city community of Königsberg
  5. ↑ Award of the Federal Cross of Merit to Nechama Drober - honor for the educational work of the Holocaust survivors (Foundation Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe, June 14, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Drober, Nechama
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Markowsky, Hella (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Israeli author
DATE OF BIRTH 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg i. Pr.