In 2014 in Berlin, Germany, a national memorial to Aktion T4 victims, designed by the architects Ursula Wilms and Heinz W. Hallman, along...

One of the many reasons I love archaeology is that it can help reveal the actual truth of what transpired in history.  And archaeology...

On August 24, 1941, Hitler quietly ordered Brandt to “end” Aktion T4. It came 146 days too late for Ruth. There is much speculation about...

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...

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...

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...

On the 83rd anniversary of Ruth's murder in the gas chamber of the Bernburg Euthanasia Center, the Bernburg Memorial, Gedenkstätte...

“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...

75 women were gassed to death at the Bernburg Killing Center on March 31, 1941. The total number of people with disabilities murdered at...

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...

Heinz Christian Felix Mühlmann was born 13 months after his sister Ruth to their parents, Emma and Paul. Ruth and her brother Heinz in...

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...

In 1940, the transformation of a portion of the Bernburg State Psychiatric Hospital and Nursing Home to a Nazi Euthanasia Killing Center...

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...

I have visited Bernburg, Germany twice. In January of 2020 (we literally first heard of "Wuhan, China" in the Doja Wellness Center...

There were six Aktion T4 killing centers. All facilities were placed in an existing psychiatric hospital so as not to draw unneccessary...

You may wonder how the authorities kept all the patients straight as they shuttled them from institution to institution. I found several...

“By late 1939, the next phase of eugenic selection - euthanasia - had already commenced:  the period of sterilization was ending, the...

I have come across two excellently written blogs during my research and thought I would share both with my readers in case you are...

“There goes the murder box!” children in Hadamar would shout when a gray bus went by. Gekrat Buses Photograph.  Public Domain. It was an...