David, the forgotten child

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It was a lean little boy who was left behind and lost on the platform and was picked up by a woman in Wehrmacht uniform.
It was a lean little boy who was left behind and lost on the platform and was picked up by a woman in Wehrmacht uniform. "Boy, you can't stay here in the cold," said the woman, picking him up and carrying him into a small room that was heated. "Who are you waiting for?" She asked. "To my parents, they took the train without me," said the boy. "What's your name?" She asked. "My name is David." The woman in uniform: "And where are you from?" Boy: "We were brought on the truck from the village to the city and on foot to the train station, where we had to wait on the platform." David: “Two things dominate the landscape, the towers and the trenches. In the case of the towers, the church towers differ from the watch and shooting towers and in the case of the trenches there are, on the one hand, the trenches for military defense and, on the other, the trenches for filling up with shot men, women and children. It is the landscape of desolation, depravity and forlornness and the shame of arrogance and the lack of bread and humanity. " Professor David Blumenthal: “It was the time of the great trials of the 1950s and 1960s over the events of Auschwitz. On the one hand it was about the imprisoned people who had survived the concentration camp and on the other hand about the other people who were the perpetrators in the camps, be it as camp manager, “camp doctor”, supervisor or other auxiliary person. During these processes, there were major problems reporting what had happened in the camp. Access to the soul is through a door that requires a special key to unlock it. An extraordinary woman gave the word “soul unlocker”. This woman saved my life at the time of the transports of Jews to the concentration camp Auschwitz when she took me from the platform as a forgotten nine year old child and took me to her little back house and gave me to eat and a place to sleep."

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Helmut Lauschke
- Kindheitserlebnisse von der “Reichskristallnacht” und den Bombennächten über Köln - Übersiedlung nach Bautzen, wo der Vater als Gynäkologe eine kleine Frauenklinik betreibt - sieht als 10-Jähriger wenige Monate vor Kriegsende, wie ein Zug von Häftlingen in KZ-Kleidung von der SS bewacht durch die Stadt zieht - 1951 Rückkehr nach Köln, um dem “roten” Polit-Terror zu entgehen - Medizinstudium in Köln und München - seit 1960 Arzt, 1961 promoviert - dreijährige Ausbildung in der pathologischen Anatomie (Universität Köln) - Facharzt der Chirurgie (Universität Köln), der Traumatologie und plastisch rekonstruktiven Chirurgie (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) - 1985-1998 Arzt und Chirurg am Hospital in Oshakati - zum “Honorary Professor of the University of Namibia” ernannt (1997

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