Ramona Bräu

Ramona Bräu is a German historian and political scientist specializing in " Aryanization " and forced labor during the Nazi era .

Career

Ramona Bräu studied recent and recent history and political science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and Polish history at the University of Wrocław (Breslau) . Her research interests were economic, social and everyday history under National Socialism , the history of the Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust, and the history of German-Polish relations in the 20th century. She was responsible for the content of the book and exhibition project "Aryanization" in Thuringia at the Historical Institute of the University of Jena. She wrote her master's thesis in 2006 on Aryanization in Breslau. The de-Jewification of a German city and its discovery in the Polish memory discourse .

She then received a Leonardo da Vinci scholarship from the Foundation for European Understanding in Krzyżowa (Kreisau / Poland) and from 2008 to 2010 a research volunteer at the Buchenwald Memorial of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorial Foundation . In 2010 and 2011, Bräu held a teaching position at the University of Erfurt at the Chair of History of Eastern Central Europe. She presented her research on the German armaments company HASAG as a beneficiary of forced labor at a symposium held by the Leipzig Forced Labor Memorial, at a scientific conference in Leipzig on City History Day 2011 and at a conference of the Technical History Working Group of the VDI Leipzig. From 2011 to 2014 she was a research assistant on the project of the Federal Ministry of Finance on the history of the Reich Ministry of Finance in the time of National Socialism.

Bräuer is now deputy head of the tracing department at the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen.

Publications

Books

"Aryanization" in Wroclaw: The "de-Jewification" of a German city and its discovery in the Polish memory discourse . VDM Verl. Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 3-8364-5958-2 ; Online in the Digital Library Thuringia
with Thomas Wenzel (Ed.): "burned out, plundered, expelled"; the pogroms against the Jewish citizens of Thuringia in November 1938; Sources on the history of Thuringia , State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-937967-41-7
Monika Gibas (Ed.), Ramona Bräu u. a. (Editor): "Aryanization" in Thuringia: disenfranchisement, expropriation and extermination of Thuringia's Jewish citizens 1933-1945 . State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-937967-06-6

Essays and professional articles

With Ralf Banken: "Abandoned property". Robbery and exploitation of mobile Polish property in World War II , in: Michael Kempe, Robert Suter (ed.): Res nullius. On the genealogy and timeliness of a legal formula , writings on legal history Volume 170, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-428-84536-1
Forced labor - armament - national community. The Leipzig armaments company Hugo Schneider AG in the “Third Reich” - attempt at classification . In: Susanne Schötz (Hrsg.): Leipzig's economy in the past and present. Actors, scope for action, effects (1400–2011) , sources and research on the history of the city of Leipzig Vol. 3, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-86583-637-3 , pp. 337–355; - Table of contents (PDF; 94 kB)
Between Silesia and Palestine: Biographies of Silesian Jews based on interviews with contemporary witnesses . In: Maximilian Eiden (Ed.): From Silesia to Israel. Jews from a German province between persecution and a new beginning , Schlesisches Museum, Görlitz 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813510-0-2 , pp. 65–84
Shoah and "Aryanization" in Silesia - current state of research . In: Cornelia Domaschke, Daniela Schmohl, Günter Wehner: National Socialism and Anti-Fascist Resistance in Silesia , Manuscripts of the RLS Vol. 84, Dietz, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-320-02191-7
Volkhard Knigge and Gerd Fleischmann (eds.): Franz Ehrlich: a Bauhausler in resistance and concentration camp . Neues Museum Weimar, 2009, ISBN 978-3-935598-15-6 , with contributions by Harry Stein, Ramona Bräu, Sabine Stein, Gerd Fleischmann, Adina Seeger
"Aryanization" in Thuringia marginalized. Looted. Extinguished. , Catalog for the exhibition of the same name, Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2009, ISBN 978-3-86583-351-8
"... my wife and I left the then polluted Germany in January 1939. We had to leave because we saw that our lives were at stake." Confident patriot and Protestant Dr. Walter Spiegel - Thuringian teacher in Gotha and Gera . In: Monika Gibas (ed.): I came to Erfurt as a wealthy person and went away as a plundered Jew. Fates 1933–1945 , State Center for Political Education Thuringia, Erfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-937967-39-4 , pp. 11–18; Online at thueringen.de (PDF; 6.7 MB)
Confident patriot and Protestant Dr. Walter Spiegel - Thuringian teacher in Gotha and Gera , in: Monika Gibas (Ed.): "I came to Erfurt as a wealthy person and went away as a plundered Jew." Fates 1933-1945 , State Center for Political Education Thuringia Erfurt 2008, pp. 11–18
David Littmann and the Mohrenapotheke in Erfurt , in: Monika Gibas (Ed.): Fates of Jewish Families in Thuringia 1933 - '45 , Erfurt 2009, PDF