Walter Joelsen
Walter Helmut Joelsen (born June 15, 1926 in Munich ) is a German survivor of the Holocaust . He is a pastor , editor and contemporary witness .
Life
Joelsen comes from a German-Jewish family from Gunzenhausen in Central Franconia . According to the Nuremberg Laws , he was considered a half-Jew and was excluded from the Wittelsbacher Gymnasium in 1943 . He then worked as an auxiliary youth warden and auxiliary churchman at the Protestant church . From October 1944 he was drafted into forced labor , first in the potash mine near Bad Salzungen in Thuringia, and later in the Abteroda and Dankmarshausen forced labor camps .
After the Second World War, Joelsen studied Protestant theology and worked for nine years as a religion teacher in Lindau (Lake Constance) , then as a student pastor in Munich. Most recently he was an editor at the Protestant television and film production company EIKON in Munich and moderated, among other things, the ZDF broadcast OB Van 4 . He also works as a pastor in retirement.
In 2009 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his work in remembrance work in the Dachau concentration camp .
In 2013 he worked as a contemporary witness on the project The sources speak of the Bavarian radio .
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| SURNAME | Joelsen, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Joelsen, Walter Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German contemporary witness of the Holocaust |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 15, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |