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Ernst Grube

Partner: UFA & short film “Ernst Grube – The Legacy”

Ernst Grube, born in Munich in 1932, has Jewish-Protestant roots. In 1938, due to Nazi seizures, he and his siblings were evicted from their home and relocated to a Jewish children’s home. Tragically, many residents of this home were later killed by the Nazis. In 1942, they were transferred to the “Jews Camp Milbertshofen” and subsequently moved to another camp. Just three months before the war concluded, they were deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto, where they remained until they were freed in May 1945.

Eva Umlauf

Partner: Fraunhofer Institute (HHI)

Eva Umlauf was born in 1942 in the Nováky labor camp, Slovakia. By the age of two, she found herself in Auschwitz-Birkenau. However, an imminent evacuation spared both her and her expectant mother from immediate execution. After the tragic loss of her father to blood poisoning following a death march, Eva was liberated by the Red Army in 1945. Upon returning to Slovakia, she faced the heart-wrenching reality: none of her relatives had survived the Holocaust.

Driven by her past, Eva pursued a career in pediatrics. After moving to Munich in 1967 and enduring the early loss of her first husband, she remarried and had two more sons. In 2011, Eva began sharing her harrowing experiences publicly. She continues to be a poignant voice on Holocaust experiences while practicing as a pediatrician and psychotherapist in Munich.

Ivan Lefkovits

Contracting Partner Organization: Gamaraal Foundation

Born in 1937 in Prešov, Czechoslovakia, Ivan Lefkovits experienced the horrors of World War II firsthand. In 1944, he, alongside his older brother Paul and their mother, was transported to Ravensbrück. It was here that Paul tragically lost his life during the ‘Mitwerda’ operation. Ivan and his mother later found themselves in Bergen-Belsen, where they were eventually liberated by the British Army in 1945. Tragically, the Holocaust claimed the lives of Ivan’s father and the rest of the Lefkovits family. Ivan now resides in Switzerland.

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Agnes Hirschi

Contracting Partner Organization: Gamaraal Foundation

Born in London in 1938, Agnes Hirschi and her mother faced perilous times in wartime Budapest. Their safety was ensured by the Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz, then the deputy consul at the Swiss Embassy in Appenzell. In time, her mother and Lutz married. Agnes later ventured into journalism. Today, she is a widow, mother to two, and a doting grandmother to a granddaughter.

Mike Russell

Partner: University of Arizona

Mike Russell, a Washington D.C.-origin guitarist for Berlin’s Black Heritage and Mike Russell’s Funky Soul Kitchen, speaks of his father, James L. Russell. Serving in a Sicilian supply unit from 1941-45 during WWII, James had a close call with a bombing due to tardiness, faced racial tensions with white soldiers, and met Eleanor Roosevelt. An article that downplayed the roles of black American soldiers deeply affected him. In Sperryville, Virginia, James is recognized for preserving local enslavement history.

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