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Ilka Knüppel
Jul 11, 20241 min read
Happy Birthday, Ruth!
Happy 104th Birthday, dear Tante Ruth! Stay tuned as I am working hard on making yet further revisions to Ruth's book. My goal is to have...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jun 5, 20241 min read
A Rose for Ruth - Children's Day in Germany
My friend whom I met during Ruth's Stolperstein installation had placed a rose on Ruth's stone on June 1, 2024. This was in memory of...
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Ilka Knüppel
Apr 13, 20241 min read
Presentation on Finding Ruth at Towson University
On April 11, 2024, I had the honor of presenting Tante Ruth’s story to Dr. Hana Bor ‘s Holocaust Class at my Alma Mater, Baltimore Hebrew...
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Ilka Knüppel
Apr 3, 20241 min read
Gedenkstätte Bernburg Publishes Story on Ruth
On the 83rd anniversary of Ruth's murder in the gas chamber of the Bernburg Euthanasia Center, the Bernburg Memorial, Gedenkstätte...
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Ilka Knüppel
Mar 6, 20248 min read
Ruth's Falsified Death
“Nothing was accurate: neither the place of death, nor the date of death nor the manner of death.” One of the ladies employed as a...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 29, 20245 min read
The Ashes of the Dead
75 women were gassed to death at the Bernburg Killing Center on March 31, 1941. The total number of people with disabilities murdered at...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 27, 202410 min read
Forgotten Victims of National Socialism: the names of 66 women with disabilities killed at Bernburg on March 31, 1941.
March 31, 1941, dawned snowy, unusual for an early spring day in central Germany. The staff would have woken early, focused on a busy day...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 21, 20246 min read
Heinz Mühlmann -Ruth's Brother
Heinz Christian Felix Mühlmann was born 13 months after his sister Ruth to their parents, Emma and Paul. Ruth and her brother Heinz in...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 1, 20248 min read
Bernburg Killing Center - the employees
None of Hitler's plan would have come to fruition if he did not have willing minions to carry it out. Below are the people we know of...
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Ilka Knüppel
Jan 1, 20241 min read
Bernburg State Psychiatric Hospital - its transformation to Killing Center
In 1940, the transformation of a portion of the Bernburg State Psychiatric Hospital and Nursing Home to a Nazi Euthanasia Killing Center...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 24, 20231 min read
Frohe Weihnachten from this blog
There's a picture of Ruth from either 1931 or 1932 on what we believe to be her Christmas Break from Neinstedt Hospital. I had also...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 21, 20233 min read
Bernburg Psychiatric Hospital - its beginning.
I have visited Bernburg, Germany twice. In January of 2020 (we literally first heard of "Wuhan, China" in the Doja Wellness Center...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 17, 20231 min read
The Killing Centers
There were six Aktion T4 killing centers. All facilities were placed in an existing psychiatric hospital so as not to draw unneccessary...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 16, 20232 min read
Leukoplast Tape - a revealing detail.
You may wonder how the authorities kept all the patients straight as they shuttled them from institution to institution. I found several...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 15, 20235 min read
Who was chosen and why?
“By late 1939, the next phase of eugenic selection - euthanasia - had already commenced: the period of sterilization was ending, the...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 14, 20231 min read
Excellent Aktion T4 Blogs
I have come across two excellently written blogs during my research and thought I would share both with my readers in case you are...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 14, 20234 min read
Gekrat Buses - "Into the Blue"
“There goes the murder box!” children in Hadamar would shout when a gray bus went by. Gekrat Buses Photograph. Public Domain. It was an...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 13, 20231 min read
Justice Served - Court Room 600
It was extremely emotional to me to visit Court Room 600 in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany on December 6, 2023. Most people...
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Ilka Knüppel
Dec 10, 20231 min read
Nazi Euthanasia Research Project in Erlangen, Germany
I was able to meet with Dr. Sabrina Freund, the research assistant at the Chair of the History of Medicine at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg and...
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Ilka Knüppel
Nov 29, 20231 min read
Adding Aktion T4 research to the German Christmas Market Vacation
I'm leaving tomorrow for a trip to some of the prettiest (so I'm told) Germany Christmas Markets! Our German Club, the Baltimore Kickers...
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