Sonja Mühlberger
Sonja Mühlberger (born October 26, 1939 in Shanghai ; born Sonja Krips ) is a German teacher who, the daughter of Jewish emigrants, spent her early childhood in Shanghai and repeatedly reported on her experiences as a contemporary witness .
Life
Her parents were Hermann and Ilse Krips. Hermann Krips was deported to the Dachau concentration camp in Frankfurt am Main after the November pogrom . Ilse Krips managed to get her husband released by obtaining exit documents. At the end of March 1939 they boarded the Bianca mano in Genoa , one of the last ships to bring refugees to Shanghai. The couple arrived in Shanghai in April 1939.
The daughter Sonja was born six months later. She grew up in the Shanghai Ghetto , which was then under Japanese occupation. Together with her parents and around 500 other Shanghai emigrants , she was able to return to Germany in 1947. At that time she found her home in East Berlin (Soviet sector, later part of the GDR ) and became a teacher.
Sonja Mühlberger has published several books and texts and is involved as a contemporary witness . She is one of the most famous of those Jewish emigrants who survived the Holocaust in Shanghai. She received the Federal Cross of Merit .
Publications (selection)
- Sonja Mühlberger: Born in Shanghai as a child of emigrants. Life and Survival in the Hongkew Ghetto (1939-1947) . Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938485-44-2
- Georg Armbrüster , Michael Kohlstruck, Sonja Mühlberger (Eds.): Exile Shanghai. Jewish life in emigration 1938-1947. Hentrich & Hentrich, Teetz, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933471-19-2
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Sonja Mühlberger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Sonja Mühlberger's Shanghai Refugee Identification Card
- Sonja Mühlberger In search of my child friends . Rickshaw Reunion, 2007
- Shanghai synagogue to be a memorial to Jews who fled Nazis Deutsche Presse-Agentur, 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sonja Mühlberger Young Academy Franz Heat House, 2007. (PDF; 200 kB) ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Were you there as ...? Young adults interview contemporary witnesses at the Franz Heat Academy House: 2007.
- ^ Markus Pfalzgraf: Persecuted Jews 1939. Last place of refuge in Shanghai. tagesschau.de, June 21, 2019
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mühlberger, Sonja |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krips, Sonja (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German teacher and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai |