Lecture evening: In memory of Dr Joseph Wulf (1912-1974)
Anyone interested is cordially invited - admission to the lecture evening is free. The venue is once again the hall of the Chemnitz eins youth hostel (Getreidemarkt 1, 09111 Chemnitz).
The Chemnitz City Archive provides the following information about the lecture: The historian Joseph Wulf would have been 100 years old on 22 December. The life of Joseph Wulf, a Holocaust survivor, was characterised by an eventful fate: born in Chemnitz as the son of a Jewish merchant, Joseph Wulf grew up mainly in Krakow, Poland, where he lived until the invasion of the German Wehrmacht in 1939. Joseph Wulf survived the difficult years in the ghetto and the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp. After the end of the Second World War, he decided to dedicate the rest of his life to documenting the crimes of National Socialism. The numerous books he has published since the mid-1950s show him to be one of the most important early Holocaust researchers. Klaus Kempter recently published the first major biographical study on Dr Joseph Wulf, who is regarded as a fascinating outsider in German historiography. In his lecture in Chemnitz, the speaker will now present the key findings of his study and at the same time commemorate the 100th anniversary of Joseph Wulf's birth.