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Home > Histories & Narratives > Minnesotans : Minnesotans and the Eugenics Movement

Minnesotans and the Eugenics Movement

Liberation Scenes

• Scenes of the concentration camps taken by American GIs
• Scenes of Resistance Fighters
• Scenes of Liberator
• Stories about Holocaust Survivors Living in Minnesota

Other sections on the CHGS site that contain photos taken by Minnesota GIs

• Images of Buchenwald, photos taken by Cyril John Corrigan and read the statement that describes what he saw.
• Photos Taken by Gene Rinkey, and two articles describing his experiences at Dachau.
• Photos of liberation of Dachau, by Charles Groebner, New Ulm, MN, GI in the US Third Army, April 1945.
• Photos taken by Gilbert Pastche, St. Paul, Minnesota, World War II Veteran of the 7th Army stationed in Nuremberg who was sent to Dachau in April, 1945.
• Photos of Concentration Camp Gusen, Collection of Jalmer Lake, Menahga, Minnesota, who was part of US Military liberating Camp Gusen, Austria, April 1945.

Photos of Institute of Global Studies Title VI Participants, Summer Institute on Teaching About the Holocaust and Genocide." June, 2000.

	Henry Oertelt and his daughter Stephanie celebrate the publicate of Henry's memoirs of survival of the Holocaust. (see Henry Oertelt web page on this site)
	Vesna Kittelson. Art Professor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Joyce Lyon, U of M Art Department and Stephen Feinstein in discussion of a problematic image by student studying the Holocaust.
	Nelly Trocme Hewett, and her brother Jacques, children of Andre and Magda Trocme, who served as religious leaders in Le Chambon sur Lignon and the regional plateau where 3500 Jews were rescued by 5000 Christians, agnostics, and even Jews who lived in the region.
	Secondary school teachers from several states attended the worshop.

Articles

A Conversation with Professor Frank Hirschbach, German Department Emeritus, who passed away on December 12. This article was originally published in GSD Magazine, Spring 2004.

Champion of Social Justice: Contributions of Gisela Konopka, Janice Andrews, PhD. (with permission of author). Also read Sunday Magazine's article on Gisela Konopka .
Eulogy for Gisela Konopka.
Renowed U Social Scientist Gisela Konopka dies, Star Tribune (published 12/10/03).

Photographs and documents of Lucy Kreisler Smith, Hidden child in Poland, born in Krakow.

'Catastrophe of our people'. Tonight begins Yom Hashoah - a time to honor the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, Star Tribune, April 19, 2001.

Margot DeWild, "I'm not bitter - I don't hate,' says woman who survived Auschwitz, Star Tribune news coverage. Also Survivor Remembers (Unversity Chronicle).

Talk by Adolf Lustig, Refugee from Germany to Australia. His daughter, Ruth King-Smith now lives in Minneapolis.

Robert Matteson Obituaries from 1994, Originally published in Star Tribune (1/25/94).

Julius Ancer, Survivor from Konin, Poland who was in a German POW camp in Poland. Ancer relates his own experiences as well as the destruction of Jewish life in his home town.

Henryk Gurman, Rite of passage comes 60 years late (PDF) (originally published in Pioneer Press (6/11/01). St. Paul Pioneer Press featuring Henryk Gurman (PDF).
The Invisible Front-line Officers (PDF), Statement in Light of the Experiences of Fighting Nazi Germany in the Polish Forces under Soviet Command in World War II.

Minnesotans and the Armenian Genocide
"Minnesota Newspapers Reportage About the Armenian Genocide, 1915 - 1922", Compiled by Dr. Lou Ann Matossian.

Books

Partial histories of these and other Minnesotans connected with the Holocaust can be found in the book:

Witnesses to the Holocaust : An Oral History (Twayne's Oral History Series, No 2) Rhoda G. Lewin(Editor) / Paperback / Published 1991
Order through Amazon.com or similar bookseller: $19.00

America at Dachau, from the collection of Dorothy Wahlstrom, Minnesota Liberator of Camps.

Holocaust survivors, members of the second generation and camp liberators are available to speak in schools. Contact Jewish Community Relations Council at 612-338-7816.

Mission to Pomerania, Where Bonhoeffer Met the Holocaust, a History and Traveler's Journal, by Jane Pejsa.

A Child's Tapestry of War, Denmark 1940-1945, by Anne Ipsen.

My Name Was No. 133909 ... and I Sang, An autobiography by Murray Brandys as told to Karin B. Miller. Murray Brandys is a Holocaust survivor living in Minnesota.