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2021-02-07T08:04:06.899Z


With the “Place of Remembrance”, the Diakonie Herzogsägmühle in Peiting is commemorating the fate of 430 people who suffered or died in the facility between 1934 and 1945. Five of them are presented in a memorial book that is now also available in easy language.


With the “Place of Remembrance”, the Diakonie Herzogsägmühle in Peiting is commemorating the fate of 430 people who suffered or died in the facility between 1934 and 1945.

Five of them are presented in a memorial book that is now also available in easy language.

Herzogsägmühle - The so-called easy language helps people with learning disabilities to understand written texts.

Functionally illiterate people also benefit from the presentation in short sentences and simple language elements, according to a statement from the district of Upper Bavaria.

The district has already sponsored the “Place of Remembrance” campaign that Herzogsägmühle created in 2019 on the occasion of its 125th anniversary.

And about which two publications now provide information: one in difficult and one in easy language.

If you leaf through the easy language copy, you will find black and white photos of the men and young people, whose fateful lives are honored here, between the texts.

One of them is Franz Xaver Bremm, a man in his 50s whose eyes are already telling part of his story.

The other part is provided by the text.

Born in 1887, Bremm grew up on his parents' farm near Regensburg.

Because he was slightly disabled, he was passed over in inheritance and left to his own devices.

He went on a journey and was taken to Herzogsägmühle against his will in 1939.

Four years later he was sent to the Eglfing-Haar sanatorium, where he probably died of deliberate neglect.

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The fate of Xaver Bremm is exemplified in the memorial book.

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The knowledge about the different life stories comes from received letters and administrative forms, which are also printed.

For example, an "education report" issued in 1943 in Herzogsägmühle attested that the then 14-year-old "pupil" Georg Brönner had an "interest in the football game", had a complicated character and that he seemed to suffer "internally from his mixed Jewish blood".

The son of a Jewish mother and a Catholic father grew up in Kitzingen and was taken into compulsory care after his parents divorced.

The then director of Herzogsägmühle sent him on to Hesse to the Hadamar “nursing home”, which functioned as a Nazi killing facility.

There he was murdered with a drug syringe in 1945, just a few months before the liberation.

The letters, the contents of which have also been summarized in plain language, are touching.

For example, a letter from Georg Brönner's stepmother, who asks about the boy.

Or a letter from Franz Xaver Bremm to the sister.

The beginning reads like this:

"Dear sister, I would rather die:

If I can't get away from here.

And if I can't look for a job.

I'm still alive

I haven't died yet. "

The fact that each sentence is on its own line or that compound words are written with a hyphen is one of the rules for easy language, all of which serve to make it "particularly easy" to understand.

Whoever wants to find out more about the fate can read the printed version of “Signs against Forgetting!

Commemorative book in easy language for the victims and persecuted in Herzogsägmühle in the period 1934-1945. ”Order for a contribution of 7.50 euros plus VAT by email to Info-lernort@herzogsaegmuehle.de.

The free download of the memorial book is available online at www.lernort-herzogsaegmuehle.de.  

Source: merkur

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