The fourth reunion of child survivors who had been cared for at the International D.P. Children's Center Kloster Indersdorf took place in July 2011. Participants were Steve Israeler and Susan Roeser from New York, Martin Hecht and his wife Aida from Israel, Leslie Kleinman and his wife Miriam Stein from England, Walter Beausert from France, Daniel Baumann from France, Gisèle Niango and her sons Grégoire and Mathieu from France, Eric Hitter and his son Alan from Belgium, Harry Zansberg and his granddaughter from New Jersey, Jakob Haiblum and his son Amir from Israel. Special guests to the reunion were Dr. Susanne Urban and Renate Bröker from the International Tracing Service Bad Arolsen, and Jack Terry from New York, speaker of the former Flossenbürg prisoners. The German regional TV station Bavarian Broadcast aired a short report on the reunion.

To this reunion we managed to invite some survivors who came as babies from "Lebensborn" institutions to the Indersdorf children's center. Their unmarried mothers had abandoned them in centers of this Nazi organization in occupied France or Belgium. After having been cared for in Indersdorf they had finally been adopted by French foster parents, but learned of this fact only after many decades. Two representatives of the ITS joined this year's reunion in Indersdorf to personally hand over copies of  the documents collected at the Tracing Service about the very participants and assist them in interpreting the often very personal information. A key event of the reunion was a symposium at the Greta-Fischer-Schule in Dachau about 'resilience': What helps children to master their future lives despite their worst traumatizations ? And all of the survivors gave a different individual answer.

Run a manual slideshow by clicking the image below !
    Loading