“Aktionsjuden”
After the November pogrom of 1938, Hitler had 30,000 Jews arrested in order to force them to leave Germany and to dispossess them.
Dachau concentration camp
“Sympathy and human kindness”
In 1941, Christian dignitaries called for solidarity with refugees and internees.
The „Fall Grün“
On 22 and 23 September 1938, 2,000 Jews were transferred from Dachau concentration camp to Buchenwald. The background to this was the “Fall Grün”.
Leon Gottlieb
Leon Gottlieb was a Hamburg anti-fascist who travelled to Australia via Singapore on the Queen Mary.
Ernst Friedlich
The short article about the dentist Dr Ernst Friedlich, a witness to the Lebrechts’ marriage, refers to his “Flurgespräche” biography.
“Two Years in Nazi concentration camps”
Leon Gottlieb reported on his time in the Sachsenhausen, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps for the Australian radio station ABC.
Franz Lebrecht
A Jew and anti-fascist in concentration camps, forcibly divorced and deported to Australia.
