Munich Archive Seeks Descendants of People Executed by the Nazis, Including Czechs | českénoviny.cz

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In addition to Germans, French and Poles, Czechs also died in Stadelheim prison. They are also among the writers of undelivered letters. "Dear aunt and godmother! I am writing you my last letter, because today, November 2, 1942 at five o'clock in the afternoon, my life will end," begins one of the preserved letters, written by the Pole Jan Stepniak. "As you know, I am going towards death innocent, because for Poles, punishments are like that," c…

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Shortly before their execution, victims of Nazi tyranny wrote letters to their loved ones in the Munich-Stadelheim prison, but the farewells never reached their recipients. For decades, the letters remained hidden in the files of the executed. Now the Bavarian State Archives and the Arolsen Archives have launched a Europe-wide project aimed at finding the descendants of the victims and passing on the last words of their relatives to them. In add…

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German archives are searching for relatives of wrongfully convicted victims from one of Nazi Germany's main execution sites as part of a new project to deliver farewell letters written by prisoners to the authorities before they died.

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Berlin - Shortly before their execution, victims of Nazi tyranny wrote letters to their loved ones in the Munich-Stadelheim prison, but the farewell words never reached their recipients. For decades, the letters remained hidden in the files of the executed. Now the Bavarian State Archives and Arolsen Archives have launched a Europe-wide project aimed at finding the descendants of the victims and passing on the last words of their relatives to th…