Contemporary witness discussion with Henriette Kretz
The German Poland Institute invites you to a contemporary witness discussion in the Justus-Liebig-Haus Darmstadt. Henriette Kretz (born 1934) grew up in a Jewish family in Opatów.
After the attack on Poland in September 1939, the family fled to the east from the approaching Germans. Henriette came to Lemberg (LWIW) with her parents and soon after Sambor (Sambir).
But in 1941 the war and the Germans also caught up with the family there. Henriette's father succeeded several times to preserve his family from the worst. With the help of acquaintances and through bribery, he was able to save them from shooting and free them from prison. For months, Henriette's family could hide in a basement and in an attic. Then they were betrayed. Henriette's parents were shot before their eyes. She herself could be hidden in a orphanage led by nuns and thus survived the time of the Nazi terror.
After the war, she came to Antwerp on a detour. Henriette Kretz has been trying to produce a bridge from the past in Germany for years: "Exclusion begins very quickly, there is always a reason." She appeals: "Always see a person as humans."
“ My story is not a special one. It is the story of one and a half million children who have no voice. " - Henriette Kretz
(Photo: Olaf Kosinsky)
Wednesday, March 26, 7:00 p.m.
Justus-Liebig Haus
Große Bachgasse 2, Darmstadt
Further information and registration for school classes and groups:
Stephanie Roth / Zeitzeugen@stephanie-roth.d e / Tel. 0171-8289973
