Inge Deutschkron

Inge ( born August 23, 1922 in Finsterwalde ) is a German -Israeli journalist and author.

Life

She was born the daughter of the Social Democratic schoolteacher Martin Deutschkron. The family moved to Berlin in 1927. 1933 Inge learned from her mother that she was Jewish. The father was released in April 1933 as a member of the SPD for "political unreliability " according to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service from the education service. He then taught at the Zionist Theodor Herzl School. He achieved early in 1939 about his cousin, who had deposited a high bail for him to get a visa for the UK. Since the money was only enough for one person, he should first leave and take care of the descendants of the family. However, since September 1, 1939 had started the war, no longer able Inge and her mother Ella to escape. 1941 to 1943 she worked in the workshop for the blind Weidt in Berlin-Mitte and was preserved there before the deportation. Since January 1943 she was living illegally in Berlin and hid with her mother in non-Jewish friends to escape the Holocaust.

In 1946 she moved with her mother to London with her father, studied foreign languages ​​, was secretary of the Socialist International. In 1954, she traveled first to India, Burma, Nepal and Indonesia, returned back to Germany in 1955, worked as a freelance journalist in Bonn. In 1958, she was a correspondent for the Israeli daily newspaper Maariw. In 1963 she participated as an observer for Maariw at Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial in part. In 1966 she received Israeli citizenship.

From anger over resurgent anti-Semitism in German politics and the anti-Israel stance in their view of the '68 movement in 1972, she moved to Tel Aviv. She worked there until 1988 as an editor for Maariw. She devoted herself particularly of international and Middle Eastern politics. Her autobiography I wore the yellow star in 1978 made ​​her famous.

For the play From today you Sara is, a stage adaptation of her autobiography I wore the yellow star on the GRIPS Theater in December 1988, she returned back to Berlin. Since 1992, she lived as a freelance writer in Tel Aviv and Berlin; since 2001, she lives entirely in Berlin. She is committed to ensuring that the quiet heroes, people who saved Jews, will be assessed by the German state. The Friends was founded Blind Faith on their own initiative, whose chairman is.

In 1994, under the direction of Wolfgang Kolneder with and about Inge documentary Daffke ...! The four lives of Inge D. Another documentary entitled Suddenly I was Jewish. The incredible life of Inge by Jürgen Bevers was broadcast on WDR 2012.

On 30 January 2013, it held in the German Bundestag, the speech at the memorial service for the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of National Socialism. The beginning of 2014 she led as a contemporary witness by the docudrama A blind hero - The love of Weidt that tells their story.

Inge is a member of the PEN center of Germany.

Awards

Inge was in 1994 awarded the Moses Mendelssohn Prize and the Rahel Varnhagen von Ense - Medal. The Order of Merit has rejected it several times because so many Nazis were awarded it in the 1950s. In 2002 she received the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin.

2008 Deutschkron was awarded the Carl-von- Ossietzky Prize for contemporary history and politics. " My life's work is dedicated to the continuing commitment to democracy and human rights ," said the jury, " and against all forms of racism." You had managed to convey experiences of persecution and resistance against National Socialism strongly to a large audience.

Works

  • My life after survival. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-30789-7
  • I was wearing the yellow star. German Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-423-30000-0
  • I was wearing the yellow star. Publisher science and politics, Cologne 1978, ISBN 3-8046-8555-2
  • Israel and the Germans: The difficult relationship. Cologne 1983
  • Because ... its was hell: Children in ghettos and camps. Publisher science and politics, Cologne 1985, ISBN 3- 8046-8565 -X
  • Milk without honey: life in Israel. Publisher science and politics, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-8046-8719-9
  • Uncomfortable: My life after survival. Publisher science and politics, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-8046-8785-7
  • The lost joy of Leo H. Books Gutenberg, Frankfurt, Vienna, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-7632-5105-7
  • Emigranto: From survival in foreign languages. Transit, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88747-159-8
  • Open answers: My encounters with a new generation. Transit, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-88747-186-5
  • Papa Weidt: He offered the Nazis forehead. Butzon Bercker, Kevelaer 2001, ISBN 3-7666-0210-1 ( with Lukas Ruegenberg )
  • They remained in the Shadows: A monument to the "silent heroes". Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-89468-223- X
  • We escaped. Berlin Jews in the underground. German Resistance Memorial Center, contributions to the resistance 1933-1945, Berlin 2007
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