Ernst Grube

Ernst Grube (born on 13 December 1932) is a German teacher and important witness of the Holocaust. He survived his detention at Theresienstadt concentration camp and has spoken out on several issues of Post-Nazi Germany.

Life

Ernst Grube was born in Munich to a communist father, a master painter, and a Jewish mother. He had a brother, named Werner, and sister, named Ruth.[1] The family lived in Herzog-Max-Strasse, close to the Old Main Synagogue. The Synagogue was one of the first to be destroyed by the Nazi Regime. This happened in June 1938. Thereafter, the family had to leave their home and the children were separated from their parents. Ernst, Werner an Ruth came to a Jewish nursery in Schwabing. Starting in October 1941, the children had to wear the yellow badge, had to leave school, could not use the tram any longer and were not admitted to theaters and cinemas. On the street they were, as Grube reported, "spat and insulted".

In 1941, 23 children of the institution were picked up by bus, including the best friend of the eight-year-old, and deported to Lithuania where they were shot. The Grube siblings escaped deportation at that time because they were considered "half Jews" as his father had refused to divorce his wife. In the spring of 1942, the remaining children were brought to a "narrow, damp barrack camp" in Milbertshofen. In 1943, Ernst Grube was denied access to an air-raid shelter due to his badge. He hid himself "under the bushes. Around me the bombs have fallen."[2] At the beginning of 1945, the three siblings and their mother were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Only the liberation of the camp by the Red Army saved their lives.

Film

  • Ingeborg Weber, Christel Priemer: Ernst Grube - Zeitzeuge. Von einem, der nicht aufgibt.[3]

Memoires

  • "Den Stern, den tragt Ihr nicht". Kindheitserinnerungen an die Judenverfolgung in München, in: Dachauer Hefte, 9 (1993), S. 3-13.

Literature

  • Angelika Baumann, Jüdisches Leben in München. Geschichtswettbewerb 1993/94, München 1995.
  • Andreas Heusler/Andrea Sinn (Hrsg.), Die Erfahrung des Exils: Vertreibung, Emigration und Neuanfang. Ein Münchner Lesebuch, Berlin/Boston 2015.
  • Klaus Holz, Die Verneinung des Judentums: Antisemitismus als religiöse und säkulare Waffe, Münster 2009.
  • Christian Kuchler (Hrsg.), NS-Propaganda im 21. Jahrhundert: zwischen Verbot und öffentlicher Auseinandersetzung, Köln/Weimar/Wien 2014.
  • Konrad Löw, Deutsche Schuld 1933-1945? Die ignorierten Antworten der Zeitzeugen, München 2011.
  • Julius Hans Schoeps, Leben im Land der Täter, Berlin 2001.
  • Studienkreis zur Erforschung und Vermittlung der Geschichte des Widerstandes 1933-1945 (Hrsg.), Widerstand gegen den Nationalsozialismus. Perspektiven der Vermittlung. Tagung vom 17.-18.03.2007 in Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden 2007.

References

  1. ↑ Joachim Bomhard: „Wir dürfen nicht schlafen“, Interview, in: Freitag, 9 December 2011
  2. ↑ Einer der letzten Zeitzeugen. Ein Münchner, der nicht vergisst, in: Die Abendzeitung, 6 November 2015
  3. ↑ Der Unerschrockene Bericht über den Dokumentarfilm in der Süddeutschen Zeitung, 17 March 2017
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